Centre-staging citizenship, power and communities in accountability discourses: An overview

Abstract

This paper distils the key insights from thematic and interthematic deliberations of the Global Symposium on Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health. It describes the evolution of the symposium theme on linking accountability to citizenship and governance in health while providing an overview of the symposium. The paper further synthesises the key discussions of the core­themes, lays out analytical reflections that have emerged from the deliberations that touch upon the issues of power and politics surrounding accountability, viz civil society, democracy, power, civic space and the role of private non­state actors that affect health rights of the marginalised.