{"id":50961,"date":"2019-08-06T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=50961"},"modified":"2019-08-06T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:52:43","slug":"answered-what-do-you-understand-by-the-term-social-audit-discuss-the-importance-of-social-audit-in-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-do-you-understand-by-the-term-social-audit-discuss-the-importance-of-social-audit-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What do you understand by the term Social Audit? Discuss the importance of social audit in India."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> What is social audit?
Body. <\/strong>Importance of social audit.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

A social audit is a way of measuring, reporting and improving an organisation\u2019s performance holding it socially accountable. Social audit helps to increase efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation. It not only increase accountability and transparency but lead to good governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Importance of social audit in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Improve governance:<\/strong> Social auditing impact governance\nleading to good governance. It make government responsible to its citizen\nallowing better governance through citizen\u2019s participation.<\/li>
  2. Accountability and transparency: <\/strong>It allows the voice of stakeholders,\nincluding marginalised\/poor groups being heard by the authorities. Social\nauditing enhance local governance, and strengthen accountability and\ntransparency in local bodies.<\/li>
  3. Social impact:<\/strong> The social audit focuses on the\nneglected issue of society including environment and economic issues and efficiency\nof a project or programme. This allow better implementation of policies and\nremove various social inefficiencies.<\/li>
  4. Create awareness:<\/strong> It creates awareness among\nbeneficiaries and providers social and productive services. It enable the\ncommunity to participate in local planning.<\/li>
  5. Enhance development: <\/strong>It help in assessing the physical\nand financial gaps between needs and resources available for local development.\nTherefore it help in increasing efficacy and effectiveness of local development\nprogrammes.<\/li>
  6. Strengthen democracy: <\/strong>Social Audit makes it sure that in\ndemocracy, the powers of decision makers should be used as far as possible with\nthe consent and understanding of all concerned. It encourages local democracy\nand encourages community participation. It promote collective decision making\nand sharing of responsibilities.<\/li>
  7. Reduces corruption: <\/strong>It uncovers irregularities and\nmalpractices in the public sector and maintains oversight on government\nfunctioning, thus reducing leakages and corruption.<\/li>
  8. Monitoring and feedback:<\/strong> It monitors social and ethical\nimpact of an organisation\u2019s performance and provides feedback on the work.<\/li>
  9. Generates demand: <\/strong>Social Audit serves as the basis for\nframing the management\u2019s policies by raising demands in a socially responsible\nand accountable manner by highlighting the real problems.<\/li>
  10. Save government resources: <\/strong>It save government resources by\nreducing expenditures on auditing the policy implications and effectiveness. It\nalso reduce corruption, thereby saving public money.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Thus social audit is a tool of social empowerment especially of most vulnerable groups in the society. It helps in distributing benefits of economic growth to all. Further it allow accountability of government to its people and allow better policy formulation and implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Demand of the question Introduction. What is social audit? Body. Importance of social audit. Conclusion. Way forward. A social audit is a way of measuring, reporting and improving an organisation\u2019s performance holding it socially accountable. Social audit helps to increase efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation. It not only increase accountability and transparency but lead… Continue reading [Answered] What do you understand by the term Social Audit? Discuss the importance of social audit in India.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50961","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}