How might we design a sys­tem that also holds INGOs and donors account­able to the local/national CSOs they sup­port or part­ner with? 

The Pledge for Change Account­abil­i­ty and Learn­ing Mech­a­nism (PALM) pro­vides an inno­v­a­tive and decolonised new frame­work for mutu­al account­abil­i­ty and col­lab­o­ra­tive learn­ing in the sec­tor by shift­ing the account­abil­i­ty equa­tion towards the needs of local and nation­al civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions (CSOs), rather than inter­na­tion­al non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions (INGOs) and donors. The inno­va­tion aims to hold INGOs account­able to the local and nation­al CSOs they sup­port or part­ner with. The suc­cess of the mod­el is demon­strat­ed through major­i­ty world actors tak­ing the lead in defin­ing account­abil­i­ty mea­sures and process­es.