Dedication to accountability and high-level transparency is vital to GAEO work, at an operational and management level. First and foremost, our organization is accountable to the communities with whom it works. Good communication is key to achieving best transparency and we encourage open and honest dialogue, and listen carefully to people’s needs, ideas and feedback. Donor accountability is similarly important and we work hard to maintain and develop appropriate and effective reporting mechanisms. In addition to producing individual reports as necessary, each year we publish our annual report, providing a comprehensive account of our activities, finances, reflections and future goals.  We continually achieve excellent results, monitored internally and externally by professional auditing bodies.

GAEO is committed to strengthening its accountability and transparency in interaction and coordination with all stakeholders. Stakeholders of GAEO include: individuals and communities it works with and it’s individuals members, supporters, activists, partners, staffs, volunteers and the general public. Our accountability information already publicly reported includes GAEO reports of the previous projects, approval, periodical meetings with the communities involved and improved by our activities.

The GAEO properly maintains documents pertaining to financial transactions (balance sheets, income & expenditure statements etc.) in an easily retrievable form. Salaries and petty cash registers, fixed assets register etc. are regularly maintained. The audit is the review mechanism that provides assurance to senior management on the effectiveness of internal controls as well as coordinating the finance management process within the organization. It is done every year by professionally qualified accountants. The names of banks and auditors of the organization are circulated to the board members. An annual audit is conducted regularly and the audit report is duly circulated to the board members.