ENHANCING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MAKING CITIES RESILIENT AND ROLE OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Currently,more and more people are settling in cities, located in disaster prone areas. Therefore,building resilient community has recently become more prominent in the disasterrisk reduction policies. Although the activities required for making urbanareas resilient are mainly planned and conducted at the local level, privatesector, citizens, and even the international community are directly involvedand interested in these activities. The achievement of goals related to makingcities resilient depends on well-planned, well-managed activities/efforts andwell-coordinated stakeholders. Asknown, the programs and projects related to making cities resilient are mostlylong- term and require big budgets. Implementing the long-term programs andprojects requiring a big budget financed by multi-stakeholders can be carriedout in a transparent manner. Furthermore, giving assurance to all stakeholders necessitatesaccountability. The existing accountability framework in this respect does notcover all stakeholders. Therefore, special attention has to be paid toenhancing accountability. Inthis research, we revealed the shortcomings of approaches towards making citiesresilient, and proposed to strengthen accountability to overcome them. We soughtanswers to the following questions;·How can we create good governance for making citiesresilient at local, national and international levels that is effective,sustainable, and accountable?·How can we strengthen the transparency andaccountability in the field of making cities resilient?·How can Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs)’contribution be increased to enhance the transparency, accountability andeffectiveness of the activities concerning making cities resilient? Asexpected, the answers to these questions revealed the principle factors in needof strengthening and gave us the scope of redrawing accountability.Undoubtedly, this study involved citizens as well as international community.In conclusion, in this paper we tried to emphasize the importance ofstrengthening performance accountability in the process of building resilientcommunity and, to attract attention to the role of Supreme Audit Institutionswithin this context.

Keywords

• performans hesap verebilirliği
• i̇yi yönetim
• yüksek denetleme kurulu (ydk)
• afet riski
• dayanıklı
• performance accountability
• good governance
• supreme audit institution (sais)
• disaster risk
• resilient