Do social accountability approaches work? A review of the literature from selected low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia region

The authors conducted a narrative literature review to explore innovative social accountability approaches in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar and Nepal spanning the period 2007–August 2017, searching PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar. To augment this, the authors performed additional PubMed and Google Scholar searches (September 2017–December 2019) to identify recent papers, resulting in 38 documents (24 peer-reviewed articles and 14 grey sources), which they reviewed. Major challenges that undermined effective implementation include lack of capacity, poor commitment and design and insufficient community participation.

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Naher, N., D. Balabanova, E. Hutchinson, R. Marten, R. Hoque, S. N. B. K. Tune, B. Z. Islam, and S. M. Ahmed (2020) Do social accountability approaches work? A review of the literature from selected low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia region. Health Policy and Planning, Volume 35, Issue Supplement_1, November 2020, Pages i76–i96.