Our History

To address the challenge of service delivery issues and to encourage citizens to hold service providers more accountable, the government introduced the Ethiopia Social Accountability Program (ESAP) in collaboration with its development partners since 2006 in three phases. However, for better control and monitoring purpose, the program handed over to the Ministry of finance since 2023 onwards.

Consequently, addressing service delivery issues continued as a challenge in Ethiopia, and to curb the multifaceted problems, cooperation and collaboration with civic actors have a paramount importance. More importantly, those CSOs that had been implementing the ESAP project in different phases should continue their existence as a consortium became an imperative to ensure that government affairs are conducted in a transparent, accountable and participatory manner. Considering this fact, National Social Accountability Consortium (NaSAC) established.

So, the objective of NaSAC is to empower Ethiopia’s civil society in general and its members in particular to play a more effective role in holding the government accountable and fostering inclusive and democratic governance.

The National Social Accountability Consortium composed of 14 national local CSOs established in 29 February 2024 to implement an integrated social accountability programme, synergizing their different strengths and competencies. The majority of members of the consortium had extensive experience in implementing social accountability programs at national level in addition to integrated humanitarian and development interventions.

The consortium, as group of CSOs,  serve as a model for governance and  has a longer-term objective focusing on social accountability processes that enhancing society’s quality of life by fostering synergies across three important domains: empowerment, development, and governance.