Building Accountability

Accountability of development NGOs is often seen - in the first place - as an obligation to donors. This translates in doing accountability by producing financial and narrative reporting. This documentary challenges this assumption. It shows that the practice of accountability is first of all part of a process of empowerment. In terms of communication, we also wanted to deal with the idea of accountability in an innovative way, given that accountability is a subject on which the debate is mainly written, academic, and quite disembedded from practice.

The video was shot in four of the areas in which ActionAid works in Bangladesh (the districts of Panchbibi, Faridpur and Kurigram and the Mohammadpur slum in Dhaka) and in the ActionAid office in Rome.