Accountability :: Decidim Docs

Understand the basics

The Accountability component allows participants to know the status of a project’s implementation and to follow its evolution.

This feature allows administrators to present a summary of the achievements decided upon in assemblies, during participatory processes, or any other space. Administrators create Results they can then categorize and link to proposals, meetings, or investment projects (for example, as part of a participatory budget).

Results can be closely monitored, with a history of modifications saved, and percentages of completion and milestones indicating their progress. The results, projects, and states can be updated manually through the administration panel or through a CSV.

In this documentation section, you can find how to configure and manage all of those items:

Configuration

To create an Accountability component, first go in the participatory space where you want to create it.

Then:

Click on the "Components" item in the secondary menu
Click the "Add component" button
Select "Accountability"
Fill the component creation form

You can still update this form and the configuration after creating the component, by clicking the Configure icon in the components list.

Table 1. Accountability form
Field	Type	Description
Name	Required	What is the title of this component. For instance "Accountability"
Order position	Optional	The order of the component in relation with the other components. Having a lower number means a higher priority. For instance, if you have two components, "Component a" with weight "10" and "Component b" with weight "0" then "component b" is first when ordering.

Table 2. Global settings
Field	Type	Description
Scopes enabled	Optional	Check if you want to have Scopes filtering available in this component.
Scope	Optional	Which Scope does this component belongs to.
Comments enabled	Optional	Whether you want to have comments in the component.
Comments max length	Optional	The characters limit that participants have when making comments. Leave 0 for the default value.
Intro	Optional	A general introduction that’ll be displayed on the accountability landing page.
Display progress	Optional	Check it if you want a progress bar to be displayed on the results with aa progress level.

Table 3. Step settings
Field	Type	Description
Comments blocked	Optional	Whether you want to enable comments for this phase.

Examples

Below, you can find some links to examples Accountability components: