Accountability and Transparency in Service ProjectsRI Convention Breakout Session

Moderated by PDG Marcus Doyle

Panelists: Rtn. Dr. Mercy Bannerman, Rtn. Haresh Ramchandani, and PDG Willie Keteku

Dr. Mercy Bannerman• is a member of the Rotary Club of Accra Airport, Ghana.

• received degrees from Univ. of Ghana Medical School, Univ. of Michigan, Univ, of Leicester, and the Royal College of Music. And she is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians.

• is an expert in public health and communicable diseases, and she works as a consultant to organizations worldwide. She serves on many boards and committees in the health field.

• currently serves as a TRF Cadre Technical Advisor.

Transparency and accountability:

What do they mean?What do they achieve?

Transparency of funding allocation, as well as spending

execution

Haresh Ramchandani• is a member of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay East,

Jamaica.

• participated in a National Immunization Day in India in 2009 and will lead a GSE Team there later this year.

• is a real estate developer, specializing in developing commercial properties across Jamaica. For 20 years, he also owned and operated a nationwide chain of retail stores.

• was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Parish of St. James, Jamaica, in 2010.

Community assessments and post-project evaluations give recipients

a voice.

Can being more accountable to the community make the local club less accountable to donor

clubs and partnering organizations?

Utilizing technology to express the goals and achievements of

the project

PDG Willie Keteku• is a member of the Rotary Club of Accra East, Ghana.

• received degrees from Dartmouth College and Cornell University in Civil and Structural Engineering, and he is a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineers.

• served as Chairman of the National PolioPlus Committee in 2003-06 and as Governor of District 9100 in 2007-08.

• currently serves as Chairman of the Rotary Host Committee of the RI/USAID Water and Sanitation Project Ghana.

Factors that affect Accountability and Transparency

CASE STUDY:

RI/USAID WATER AND SANITATION PROJECT