Mechanisms 👨‍🔧 of Public Services Accountability

✅ Public officials are seen 👀 as the peoples representatives or trustees and ➕ answerable before the public by explaining, justifying and ➕ rectifying their actions. Accountability can 🥫 be carried out effectively through the institutions which are constitutionally protected, structurally independent , functionally autonomous and ➕ behaviourally impartial. Whereas accountability mechanisms 👨‍🔧 refer to the institutionalized processes of holding 👫 the public authorities to account that traditional mechanisms 👨‍🔧 of accountability include the elections, legislative scrutiny, courts 🏛️ and ➕ government audit. Institution of the ombudsman is a newer 🆕 and ➕ specialized mechanism 👨‍🔧 for 👫 the public services accountabld e. Elections ➕ legislative scruting y 👨‍🔧 of accountability do ❌️ 🛠️ the public serv officials dires ctly accountable. Elections and legislative sc Prutiny me ochani esms of seeking redress ➕ 👫 public officials to account through 🏛️ is costly laborious ➕ ⏱️ consuming due to which need for the simple, ♿️ ➕ cheaper avenue of public redress becomes inevity able. d Institutio not make of the public officials directly accountable. Process of seeking redress and holding public officials to account through courts is costly laborious and time consuming due to which need for the simple, accessible and cheaper avenue of public redress becomes inevitable. Institution of the ombudsman may not ❌️ possess the entire components of the effective accountability.

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