To enhance social and public accountability Citizen Report Cards and Transparency Notice Boards can be used.

The use of transparency notice boards help enhance information flow in the public domain about budget allocation and expenditure reviews of public institutions. It raises citizen's awareness about the utilisation of public resources and hence empowers people to seek and demand their effective and efficient use and minimize local corruption and misappropriations.

Citizen Report Card are peoples reports on performance of institutions and public functionaries. Collected through surveys and focussed group discussions Citizen's Report Cards gives people the opportunity to participate in assessing the State's service delivery and public expenditure through its public agencies such as hospitals, schools and police. For many of the poor in rural and urban areas this might be the only meaningful opportunity of this kind. The survey also provides a forum for a citizen-state dialogue. Other Forms of citizen-state dialogues include public hearings and poverty dialogues.