social audit
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Social audits of public money spent on projects allow villagers to speak up and ask questions.

Most Indian states have delayed conducting social audits, despite these being in place since 2006.

Access to records and a public forum are fundamentals of the social audit process.

And "reading it aloud in public" is the crux of a social audit.

It is anyone's guess, whether a process like social audits will outlive the Anna hysteria.

The Body Shop has undertaken periodic independent social audits of its activities.

He previously worked on access to environmental and safety information issues for the corporate accountability group Social Audit.

She added how the "social audit is a powerful tool for turning broad generalities into practical action."

Social Audit is the next logical step as it would ensure administrative action on the "findings" of citizens, who access public records.

The report found Gap had rigorous social audit systems since 2004 to eliminate child labour in its supply chain.

An increasing number of companies are conducting so-called social audits of their policies and practices.

For the first time, officials can use real-time information generated from social audits to redesign delivery of public goods.

Officials are obliged to share documents with village-level auditors trained by the independent social audit team.

The students conducted social audits in the neighboring villages to help unmask corruption and money laundering.

Activities of the organization also indicate a form of social audit of government schemes via people's participation.

Pipeline planning is a social audit that incorporates stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trials.

"It empowers people to question elected representatives who attend these social audits on a continual basis - and not just during elections.

One of the important recommendations emerging from the Workshop is that all schemes for socio-economic development should have a provision for social audit.

Because social accounting is concerned with substantial self-reporting on a systemic level, individual reports are often referred to as social audits.

In other States, Gram Panchayat carry out social audit.

In the original publication the term social enterprise was developed to describe an organisation that uses Social Audit.

Ramesh is now pushing to institutionalise social auditing as a monitoring tool for major welfare schemes across the country.

Paul Hawken was hired by Ben & Jerry's to perform a social audit.

We are increasingly being asked to share our expertise in this area with other organisations around the world and have won several awards for our social auditing.

Social audits, as it was with the introduction of the RTI Act, is one such effort.

Part of their role is managing the annual social, environmental and ethical audit process and producing the final report.

The ethical audit concerning the work of this project produced a positive result and this has been certified.

Hannah Berry of Ethical Consumer magazine conducts an 'ethical audit' of a kitchen.

This document [the social, environmental and ethical audit] is one of the most comprehensive and holistic audits I've seen ... impressive and sets the standard for this sector."

Accompanied by an outside consultant, Louise Jamison, an unnamed aide and, of course, Mr. Balmès, Ms. Kaskinen conducts an "ethical audit" at the Chinese plant.

Governance of CSR at GMG GMG has approved a decision for its other three main divisions to undergo a social, environmental and ethical audit.

Before it is published, the social, environmental and ethical audit, including a summary list of all targets, is signed off by the chief executive, Carolyn McCall, and the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger.

Through its approach towards ethical standards in factories and farms that represent producers, IRFT conducts ethical audits, provides code of conduct trainings and verifier training on remediation and continuous improvement.

In the 1970's, he was asked to condict "ethical audits" at several corporations - including Firestone Tire & Rubber and Baxter-Travenol - in the wake of Watergate-era disclosures of illegal campaign contributions.