Pay attention to how accountability can enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of cocreated efforts to promote the SDGs

Regardless of whether or not formal accountability mechanisms are in place, build the social and informal accountability needed to promote accountable cocreation

Make sure that networks and partnerships are accountable to all relevant accountability audiences, including those who have a limited ability to impose sanctions

Protect the cocreating actors against administrative burdens associated with formal and other forms of accountability

Give networks and partnerships ample opportunity to exchange and develop ideas and negotiate goals and solutions in private discussions, but beware of the danger of exclusivity

Spread information about the mission pursued by the cocreation processes and its different activities through social media

Encourage the participants in networks and partnerships to engage in continuous dialogue with the different accountability audiences – especially those who are skeptical

Use carefully designed events and processes to train the involved actors to competently play their part in the accountability relationship

Emphasize the importance and appropriateness of providing information, giving accounts, and allowing community actors to critically scrutinize and sanction these accounts

Normalize and routinize practices that bolster accountability and integrate them into all the different phases of the cocreation process