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ENHANCING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MAKING CITIES RESILIENT AND ROLE OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Latif GÜRKAN KAYA1 , Arife COŞKUN
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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 disaster risk reduction policies. Although the activities required for making urban areas resilient are mainly planned and conducted at the
local level, private sector, citizens, and even the international community are directly involved and interested in these activities. The achievement of goals related to making cities resilient depends on well-planned, wellmanaged
activities/efforts and well-coordinated stakeholders. As known, the programs and projects related to making cities resilient are mostly long- term and require big budgets. Implementing the long-term programs and projects requiring a big budget financed by multi-stakeholders can be carried out in a transparent manner. Furthermore, giving assurance to all stakeholders necessitates accountability. The existing accountability framework in this respect does not cover all stakeholders. Therefore, special attention has to be paid to enhancing accountability. In this research, we revealed the shortcomings of approaches towards making cities resilient, and proposed to strengthen accountability to overcome them. We sought answers to the following questions;
• How can we create good governance for making cities resilient at local, national and international
levels that is effective, sustainable, and accountable?
• How can we strengthen the transparency and accountability in the field of making cities resilient?
• How can Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs)’ contribution be increased to enhance the
transparency, accountability and effectiveness of the activities concerning making cities resilient?
As expected, the answers to these questions revealed the principle factors in need of 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 of strengthening
performance accountability in the process of building resilient community and, to attract attention to the role of Supreme Audit Institutions within this context.