To ensure accountability and ...

To ensure accountability and collaboration with government, one of the practice is to make joint monitoring with government counterparts. Another smart way is establishment of project committee comprised of beneficiary community members and government representatives. The role of the project committee is to ensure local resource mobilization, community ownership, quality control and accountability. Once community own the project by participation, they are likely to sustain it. However, your project team play a central role in monitoring and decision-making process through a consultative process. I believe NGOs have variety of innovative monitoring techniques. In case you don't trust your project team, there are ways you could check quality of the information they collected through field audit (field verification visit), where you may involve beneficiaries and government.