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Applying CivActs to Housing Insecurity in Mbare

By Kibo Ngowi What does it look like to close the feedback loop between citizens and authorities to ensure people-powered accountability? That’s the question we’ve been asking for the last seven years starting in Nepal after the devastating 2015 earthquake when we established the Mobile Citizen Helpdesks with a vision of galvanizing volunteers to bridge the information gap and respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.  Since then the program has been renamed Civic Action Teams (CivActs) and evolved to address a variety of challenges such as migration, human trafficking, inclusion and elections across the several countries where we operate including [...]

2023-01-09T08:51:59+00:009th January 2023|

‘When people with integrity begin to rise, corruption fails’

By Eresh Omar Jamal Narayan Adhikari is Nepal country director and co-founder and Sanjeeta Pant is programmes and learning manager at Accountability Lab. In a conversation with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star, they discuss the Accountability Lab's Integrity Icon initiative, which recognises and awards public servants (across 15 countries), nominated by citizens and others for demonstrating exceptional integrity at work and their personal lives. It is an attempt to address the perception of widespread corruption among civil servants in these countries, and encourage greater integrity in the profession. What motivated you to create Accountability Lab and the Integrity Icon initiative? Narayan Adhikari (NA): When we [...]

2023-01-18T13:17:30+00:0022nd December 2022|

Super-Charging Accountability In Belize

Written by Blair Glencorse   If you are interested in governance in Belize, you’d be surprised at how difficult it is to find substantive information or networks. Most indices that measure these kinds of issues are not able to access sufficient data. There are several newspapers, but these are published weekly and the quality is variable. At the same time, while a civic infrastructure has developed around core priority sectors in the country- including the environment in particular- the community of organizations working on governance more directly is almost non-existent. This is problematic because it is clear- here, here and [...]

2022-12-15T09:37:24+00:0015th December 2022|

Five Public Servants Win Accountability Lab Integrity Icons Awards

Accountability Lab in its commitment to promote integrity in Liberia’s public service sector has awarded five public servants the Integrity Icons of the Year 2022. The Integrity Icon Awards is an annual event that recognizes and awards honest public servants who display integrity on their job. This year marks the eighth edition of the Integrity Icon which is an eight-month-long program that focuses on a rigorous campaign to select dedicated individuals who are working in the public sector. The campaign focuses on 35 integrity icons in different sections, ranging from health, education, security, engineers, judiciary, including the media. The recipients [...]

2022-12-14T22:06:51+00:0014th December 2022|

Mali: Accountability Lab Country Director, Doussouba Konaté, honored following her visit to the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum

Accountability Lab Mali's Country Director, Ms. Doussouba Konaté, shared a panel with former US President Barack Obama on November 17, 2022 in Washington as part of the Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum. On December 8, 2022, a press lunch was organized in his honor by Accountability Lab Mali. During this lunch, the press and other guests were entitled to the intervention of Doussouba Konaté in English. Very comfortable and with a great knowledge of the realities that undermine Africa, particularly the Sahel, Doussouba Konaté succeeded in convincing the former American president, Barack Obama, and all the participants of the Forum, who have several [...]

2022-12-14T10:20:56+00:0014th December 2022|

Grand Bassa nurse wins 2022 Integrity Icon Award

By Lewis S Teh Bendu Conneh, a Register Nurse working at the government-run hospital in Buchanan, Grand Bassa county has emerged as the winner among five finalists in this year’s Integrity Icon Award organized by Accountability Lab Liberia. Accountability Lab Liberia is a global trans local network that makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders, and accountable institutions. According to the civil society organization, the goal is to have a world in which resources are used wisely, decision benefits vast majority of citizens and people live secure lives. ” I’m overwhelmed with this award; I never [...]

2022-12-12T09:02:33+00:0012th December 2022|

Rules for social media sought to control fake news

Speakers at an awareness session here the other day stressed the need for formulating rules for social media to control spread of fake news and disinformation. They said that disinformation was fabricated and shared online or by other means to harm others and manipulate facts. They said that both misinformation and disinformation made it difficult to maintain a stable democracy and caused damage to societal peace and economy. Local journalists and students of University of Haripur attended the session titled "Effects of fake news and misinformation on youth". The session was arranged by Accountability Lab. Speaking on the occasion, Dr [...]

2022-12-12T09:04:26+00:0010th December 2022|

Threats to democracy: The Perspective of the Country Director of Accountability-Lab

As part of its mission of civic education in the field of democracy and good governance, the management of the NGO Accountability-Lab organized, on December 8, 2022, a press lunch around the thorny question of democratic values ​​in the mali. The meeting moderated by the country director of Accountability Lab Mali, Ms. Djitteye Doussouba Konaté, was an opportunity for her to make a restitution of her participation, last November, in the forum on democracy of the “Obama Foundation” . Ms. Djitteye, who took part in this forum, on behalf of her country, Malian youth, and her organization Accountability-Lab, moderated a panel during [...]

2022-12-14T10:14:43+00:009th December 2022|

Experts stress on responsible journalism to counter effects of fake news, misinformation

Rawalpindi: In an Seminar arranged by the Accountability Lab Pakistan held at the Rawalpindi Press Club where speakers discussed the key drivers and impacts of fake news and disinformation upon Society, especially on our youth and Role of Journalism. The event was Chaired by Incharge Rawalpindi Press Club Ms Shakela Jalil: Ms. Shazia Mehboob Editor Digital Media Plat form “The PenPK.com, and Mr. Javed Rana senior journalist and analyst CEO/The Editor of The Digital Dispatch, an Investigative Multimedia Digital Magazine were among the key speakers. The event was attended by a large number of Journalist from various print and electronic [...]

2022-12-14T22:16:41+00:002nd December 2022|

Come say ‘hi’ at the IACC!

Accountability Lab will be at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Washington DC next week. If you're around, we'd love to be in touch! We will be travelling with a group of Nigerian nonprofit leaders this year thanks to support from the MacArthur Foundation. Our delegation includes Nigerian Country Director Odeh Friday, Global Director of Learning Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Executive Director Blair Glencorse, Connected Development's Hamzat Lawal, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development's  Tobi Oluwatola, Transparency International Nigeria's Auwal Ibrahim Musa, the Nigerian Women's Trust Fund's Mufuliat Dasola Fijabi, journalist Chido Onumah and Soji Apampa from The Convention on Business Integrity. We'll [...]

2022-12-05T19:54:34+00:001st December 2022|
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