Sentences with phrase «transparency over accountability»

That said, the perfumed silver lining in the report may be the emphasis on transparency over accountability.

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When he took over as CEO, one of his core missions was to establish a culture of transparency, honesty and accountability.

But this time there has been a mad rush to the «transparency and accountability» altar and because of a Senate spending scandal and a $ 90,000 payoff we may be heading to the type of real change so many, including this newspaper, have pushed for over the years.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

Serving more than 15,000 clients in over 100 countries with a market - leading portfolio of testing, inspection, certification and consulting services, the Global ID Group helps companies navigate an increasingly regulated global food economy demanding higher levels of transparency, accountability, safety and sustainability.

The President remains committed to transparency and accountability in governance and has worked over the past years to make that a cornerstone of his administration.

In terms of government, his sterling leadership, his unique desire for tolerance, genuine unity, transparency, accountability and Peace has earned him the accolade in a gold plate «THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CIVILIAN TO HAVE RULED GHANA PEACEFULLY AND HANDED OVER PEACEFULLY».

Our distinctive contribution was to look at government costs and performance over a much longer timescale than had been attempted before and we believe our own study will contribute to transparency and accountability through our unique publicly - available compilation of consistent long - term time - series of official data.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

«This does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars believed to have been lost through inflated contracts as the President has presided over the effective shredding of the Public Procurement Act, giving him and his people the free range to award contracts without the very transparency and accountability he is now promising to deliver if re-elected.

«The Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that lacked transparency and accountability,» he said.

«The reality is the Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that has lacked transparency and accountability,» Murphy said.

State lawmakers have meanwhile over the last six years passed a raft of new ethics and anti-corruption laws aimed at boosting transparency and accountability.

«The Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that has lacked transparency and accountability.

«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»

But the shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna said: «As the Public Accounts Committee has highlighted recently, there are real concerns over the way HMRC has reached settlements with some large firms, as well as the accountability and transparency of its decision - making.

The review is an important part of the Government's efforts to provide greater independent oversight over Commonwealth school funding and deliver increased transparency and accountability to the system, Mr Birmingham said.

Callen: Poll shows Mississippians want school choice Grant Callen, Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

Conversely, transparency and accountability is something we don't have for our our nascent school voucher program, which is scheduled to shift up to $ 1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the next ten years to private schools that are not required to adhere to any curricular standards or assess students in a way that is comparable to public schools.

The need for greater accountability and transparency has been fueled by recent debates over the value of a college education.

Earlier this summer over DEFER's objections, the Democratic Party adopted platform language about charters that was far less accommodating than in the past, calling for more accountability and transparency.

It is important to note that while opposition to high - stakes testing and value - added analysis often seems self - serving — it is easy to see why ineffective teachers might resist accountability — moving towards embedded software - based assessment actually raises the level of transparency, by allowing us to monitor not just what happens on the day of a high - stakes test, but rather to see how students learn over time.

The report notes that private school vouchers saw continued support by state lawmakers, moving them forward on a path to spend $ 1 billion on the program over a ten - year period, while efforts to increase transparency and accountability for the program failed.

This proposal addresses many of the flaws with the existing consumer reporting system, by making common - sense changes that enhance consumers» rights, create more transparency over the consumer reporting and credit scoring process, and increase the accountability of credit reporting agencies, furnishers, and companies that develop credit scoring models and formulas.»

«Save Cooper Union has worked hard over the course of the last year to bring increased transparency and accountability to The Cooper Union and we are pleased that these issues have become part of a larger public discussion.

ACT 2015's proposals on mitigation, resilience, finance, transparency and accountability, and a mechanism to increase ambition over time strongly informed the final negotiating text at global climate talks in Paris in 2015.

I joined activists from all over the country who actively work to increase the safety, transparency, and accountability of the nuclear energy industry -LSB-...]

Building on this momentum, our task in Paris is to secure a long - term framework in which countries set successive rounds of targets into the future, beyond 2030, and ratchet down their carbon emissions over the course of the coming decades in the context of strong transparency and accountability provisions.

Obama's climate agenda has attracted criticism from congressional Republicans who have been hammering the administration over the accountability and transparency of its global warming efforts.

Outside London, confusion over repeated changes to local government have largely failed to ensure increased transparency and accountability.

Consumers need stronger protections for the digital age such as comprehensive data security and privacy laws, transparency and accountability for data brokers, and rights to and control over their data.»

For recommendations 1 - 2, the government stated that they «fully supported transparency and accountability and that the bills be continuously monitored» but that they had concerns «over the appropriateness of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage as a reporting framework».