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Accountability

Accountability - knowing for whom you are doing your work and having a way of taking direction from and reporting to those groups - increases the effectiveness of racial equity work. It is one of those "walk the walk" strategies that is also one of the changes we are working toward - so we are closer to our vision just by adopting the practice.

An example of an accountability process includes: Residents, organizations and government set targets together for reducing racial inequities. Budgets align with priorities that are collectively set among these targets. Data are widely shared each year to show progress or lack of progress on the priority issues, and these results are used to adjust resource allocations.

Part of accountability is asking questions:

• Who is deciding the issue to be worked on?
• Who is deciding the strategies to be implemented?
• Who is defining success?
• Do the practices we use and how strategies are implemented reflect the system we are trying to dismantle or the just and inclusive system we are trying to create?