🌍 In this week's global roundup!

🇵🇰 Accountability Lab Pakistan brought ...academia, civil society, and media together to share how youth can lead the charge in building a more peaceful, informed, and inclusive society. Panelists highlighted the importance of integrating peace education into curricula, fostering academia-CSO partnerships, and strengthening student advocacy through skills in mediation and digital storytelling.

🇳🇬 Accountability Lab Nigeria invited journalists to examine Nigeria’s legal frameworks on digital privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression. The roundtable reiterated the importance of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (2023) and the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR), encouraging participants to use their platforms to report digital rights violations and promote structural reforms through ethical and informed reporting.

🇳🇵Accountability Lab Nepal gathered frontline responders, journalists, media, and government actors to reflect on lessons learned from the disasters the country has faced and how those experiences can ensure better preparedness by ensuring processes are democratic, inclusive, and that knowledge is institutionalized to strengthen future responses.

How do we build accountability that lasts?

By listening first, recognizing integrity, and ...connecting unlikely networks for real change.

In 2024, Accountability Lab Mexico supported communities like Yuguelito to co-create solutions through Civic Action Teams. We celebrated ethical public servants through the Integrity Icon campaign and opened new spaces for storytelling and justice through Voice2Rep.

Together, these efforts advanced transparency, strengthened trust, and proved how effective people-powered change can be! Swipe through to see how our work came to life.

📊 Read the full Annual Report here: https://bit.ly/4jE77uR

#AccountabilityLab #Mexico #CivicEngagement #IntegrityIcon #Voice2Rep #Governance #Transparency #Participation #AnnualReport2024

Nonprofit organizations have seen up to 50% of their budgets affected by USAID stop-work orders, ...and many are still searching for alternative funding sources. But the losses go beyond staff furloughs or organizational closures; they extend to program infrastructure, data, and intellectual assets built over the years.

In response, some organizations are exploring more strategic paths forward. Historically, mergers were designed to increase competitive advantage. Today, they’re emerging as a means to sustain essential work, absorbing and offloading programs that closing organizations can no longer sustain to like-minded nonprofits.

To support this shift, we have joined forces with Digital Public and Development Gateway to create a partnership matching service and professional support infrastructure to help international development organizations navigate funding challenges. We’ve also developed the Civil Society Strategic Partnership Toolkit, which offers hands-on guidance for evaluating options for restructuring or merging, and for preserving key programs, expertise, and impact.

Learn more about the strategic partnership and toolkit here: https://accountabilitylab.org/launching-a-partnership-matching-service-for-nonprofits/

Wondering how to move forward after funding cuts? Here’s where to begin. 👇

💡 By supporting the development of innovative ideas, we can build and support a network and ...ecosystem of youth in the anti-corruption field.

At the heart of Yilin, Idah, Inesa and Andrew's ideas is meaningful youth involvement in anti-corruption solutions. From gamified learning to anticorruption curricula in schools to ensuring that young people aren't just in the rooms but making decisions there.

The four pitched their innovative solutions at a workshop during Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum and received feedback from the workshop attendees.

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🚀 Echoing Green’s Social Impact Talent Report is now live!

This year’s report ...shines a spotlight on 48 bold and visionary leaders who are tackling some of the world’s most urgent challenges. These changemakers are driving impact in their communities and reimagining a better future for all.

Dive into the report to learn more about their powerful ideas and the movements they’re building: ➡️ https://bit.ly/4lsKlaq

#SocialImpact #Changemakers #Leadership #EchoingGreen #AccountabilityLab

Journalists around the world are working under increasing pressure—facing legal threats, online ...harassment, financial roadblocks, and shrinking civic space.

These aren’t just challenges for the media—they’re challenges for all of us.

In the latest episode of our AccountabiliTea podcast, Co-CEO Cheri-Leigh Erasmus is joined by Danai Nhando, human rights lawyer and social entrepreneur, and Nkosikhona Dibiti, Executive Director of Community Podium and journalist, to unpack the current state of media freedom.

They explore:
✔️ Why legal protections often fall short in practice
✔️ How financial pressure quietly censors critical voices
✔️ The double-edged nature of social media
✔️ Why protection networks are essential
✔️ The role citizens play in defending press freedom

When journalists are silenced, accountability suffers. When media spaces shrink, so does democracy.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation and read the blog: https://bit.ly/3E37Kyr

#PressFreedom #CivicSpace #SocialJustice #AccountabiliTeaPodcast