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|type=concept
|domain=access-governance
|title=Responsibility
|order=6
|introduced=3.0
|concept=Concepts/Roles & Permissions
|reference=References/Permission Association
}}

A '''responsibility''' is a group that gives a person a designation or a duty across Care instance-wide, rather than at one facility. For example, a deployment creates a responsibility for the people who buy supplies for a region. Each person opens the responsibilities that they belong to from their dashboard.

== Key Attributes ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Components !! What it captures
|-
| Name || The name of the responsibility. Required.
|-
| Description || A short explanation of the duty that the group holds. Optional.
|-
| Governance links || The responsibilities that oversee this responsibility, and the responsibilities that this responsibility oversees.
|}

{{Note|1=Only a super administrator creates a responsibility, or changes its name and description.}}

=== Structure ===

Responsibilities are a flat list — a responsibility has no parent responsibility and no child responsibility. To connect two responsibilities, use the '''Governance''' section in the detail panel of a responsibility on the '''Responsibilities''' admin page. The section shows two lists: '''Managing Organizations''' and '''Managed Responsibilities'''. Both lists hold responsibilities.

{{Note|title=Two meanings of "Governance"|1=Care uses the word "Governance" in two places. The Governance section inside a responsibility links one responsibility to another. The Governance item under Organizations in the Admin sidebar holds government [[Concepts/Organization|organizations]] instead.}}

=== Roles inside a responsibility ===

The designation of a person inside a responsibility comes from the roles and permission system: each role gives the person a set of permissions. Care shows only the roles that apply to a responsibility, such as Admin, Manager, and Member. See [[Concepts/Roles & Permissions|Roles & permissions]] for how roles work.

=== Access through a governance link ===

A governance link also gives access. If a person's role in a responsibility holds the permission '''Can Manage Connected Role Organizations''', Care also shows them the responsibilities that it manages. The Admin role and the Manager role hold this permission.

== Where to find responsibilities ==

* As a super administrator, open the Admin sidebar, select '''Organizations''', then select '''Responsibilities'''.
* To open a responsibility you belong to, open your dashboard and select the '''Responsibilities''' tab.
* Inside a responsibility, the top of the sidebar shows the responsibilities switcher, naming the open responsibility and your designation in it. Use the switcher to open another responsibility.

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