Social Audit Asia Cases
| Location | Title | Main Implementing Body | Intervention & Objective | Social Accountability Tool | Sector | Level | Notes & Links |
| India | Social audit of public works in Delhi | Parivartan | Social audit of public works undertaken by the Engineering Department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi by Indian NGO | 1) Social audit | 1) Public works 2) Service delivery |
Municipal | Click here to read the indiatogether.org article |
| India | Social audit in Orissa | Mazdoor Kishan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) | Public hearings for social justice | 1) Social audit | 1) Service delivery 2) Governance |
Urban and rural | |
| India | Social audit and the right to know in Lasani, Rajasthan | Mazdoor Kishan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) | Public hearings at the village level to audit government expenditure | 1) Social audit | 1) Public works 2) Public expenditure management 3) Governance |
Village | Click here to read the case study by Raj Chauhan |
| India | Parivartan's Social Audit | Parivartan (NGO) | Social/public audits: public hearings, testimonies, site visits on how contracts for public works were procured | 1) Social audit | 1) Service delivery | Urban | 'Case studies on social accountability in South and East Asia' |
| Indonesia | BIGS's Housing Budget Advocacy | Bandung Institute of Governance Studies (BIGS) |
Budget analysis and demystification, surveys, and p erformance monitoring through photos and community meetings |
1) Independent budget analysis 2) User surveys 3) Social audit |
1) Service delivery 2) Public expenditure |
Urban | 'Case studies on social accountability in South and East Asia' |
| Pakistan, Islamabad | CIET'S Social Audits | Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies (CIET) with National Reconstruction Bureau (the main architect of devolution) |
Social audit and baseline survey of 10,000 households on devolved public services and local governance | 1) Social audit | 1) Service delivery 2) Local governance |
Urban | 'Case studies on social accountability in South and East Asia' Click here to access overview of CIET activities in Pakistan |
| Philippines | Citizens' Monitoring of Infrastructure Projects | Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Government (CCAGG) |
Training communities to monitor infrastructure construction projects, and participatory auditing with the Commission on Audit and the UNDP, with the citizens assessing the actual benefits derived from public expenditures | 1) Participatory social auditing | 1) Public works | Urban & Rural | 'Case studies on social accountability in South and East Asia' |
| Sri Lanka | Community Development and Livelihood Improvement “Gemi Diriya” Project | World Bank: Task Team Leader: Meena Munshi | Community report cards on the criteria which Village Organizations members would like to use to evaluate Village Organizations performance, six-monthly follow up report cards assessing the Village Organizations performance, report cards on performance of various service providers, training of Social Audit Sub-committee, and development of a user report card on the Gemi Diriya Foundation (national-level implementing agency) |
1) Community score cards 2) Social audit |
1) Public expenditure management 2) Governance |
Rural | 'Case studies on social accountability in South and East Asia' |