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Glossary
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Farmers’ organisations: groups of rural producers coming
together to found organisations, based on the principle of free membership, to
pursue specific common interests of their members – developing technical
and economic activities that benefit their members and maintaining relations
with partners operating in their economic and institutional environment.
Upward accountability:The need of service providers
to satisfy the demands of their funders, and in the case of public services,
the State. This usually involves meeting criteria such as transparency,
efficiency, cost-effectiveness, achievement of policy objectives, and being
tied to market forces of supply and demand.
Downward accountability:Accountability of service
providers to local populations and end users of agricultural services. Here it
also refers to accountability with empowerment: for example, linkages
between agricultural service providers, farmers and their representatives that
are successful in empowering farmers to control the process of agricultural
technology development.
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