Accountability Lab urges Nigerian youth to imbibe culture of integrity and discipline

The Country Director of Accountability Lab Nigeria, Friday Odeh, has called on Nigerian youths to imbibe the culture of integrity and discipline while engaging in their daily activities. He made the disclosure while briefing journalists at the 4th Edition of the 2020 Integrity Icon awards in Abuja. He advised the youth to put in more efforts in their source of livelihoods and never to envy others or be in a hurry to make quick money. “I want all youth to deviate from this ‘quick money’ syndrome. It is good for them to do things the right way, and not engage [...]

2021-03-29T14:31:58+00:009th March 2021|

Data literacy: A tool for change in Nepal

By Bikin Ghimire, Soni Khanal and Nitee Shrestha As strong advocates and supporters of the country’s open data movement, we at the Accountability Lab were thrilled to learn about the “100-hour Nepal Data Literacy Program” organized by the World Bank in 2019 and jumped at the opportunity to learn about data literacy. As World Bank Country Director for Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, Faris Hadad-Zervos noted, the program was designed to sustainably transfer data literacy skills to stakeholders in Nepal and build an enabling environment for evidence-based policymaking and strengthening federalism in the country. The training program helped participants build a [...]

2021-03-09T09:48:06+00:009th March 2021|

Célébration des Icônes intègres de l’administration malienne par Accountability Lab Mali

Désormais une tradition est bien  établie chez Accountability Lab Mali, la célébration des hommes et femmes intègres de par leur travail, leur moralité au sein de l’administration. Un modèle  choisi par Accountability Lab. Mali pour lutter contre la corruption et inciter d’autres citoyens à se démarquer au sein de leur service en devenant des références pour d’autres citoyens et briser la chaîne infernale de la corruption. Cette année pour la course de Integrity Icon,  le Lab  enregistre  3893 nominations dont 620  en ligne. Une course pour se voir désigner l’homme ou la femme le plus intègre,  un titre très honorifique dans notre société où la corruption  encouragée par [...]

2021-03-30T12:20:08+00:0025th February 2021|

How Music Has Influenced Behaviour During COVID-19 in Liberia

By Nyema Richards and Sanjeeta Pant When Rap2Rep (now Voice2Rep or “Voice to Represent”) started in Liberia in 2015, it was a relatively small campaign to encourage creative activism among young people using Hip-Co- a popular Liberian genre often referred to as the ‘political music’. The campaign has since expanded to Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and, most recently, has also gained international attention. The campaign in Liberia was named by the UN as one of the finalists for the SDG Action Awards for “harnessing conscious music as a tool for social change through the platform of youth participation.” Voice2Rep was specifically [...]

2021-02-23T17:01:35+00:0023rd February 2021|

The launch of AL’s virtual Accountability Incubator for 2021

WASHINGTON DC, 12 February, 2021 - Accountability Lab has announced the names of a new group of civic activists enrolled in our virtual Accountability Incubator for 2021. The Incubator is our flagship program for young civil society leaders to build sustainable, effective tools for accountability, participation and open government. It provides a non-prescriptive, supportive environment for creative, enterprising individuals with innovative ideas to inspire accountability in their communities. Selected accountability entrepreneurs - or ‘accountapreneurs’ - receive 10 months of hands-on, comprehensive support including training and knowledge-building, mentoring, network building and media outreach. This year, the 77 accountapreneurs enrolled in our [...]

2021-02-17T13:05:11+00:0012th February 2021|

Our Virtual Accountapreneurs in Kenya & Uganda Pitch Their Ideas

On January 19th we hosted a pitch session for the recently-graduated accountapreneurs of our 2020 virtual Accountability Incubator for young civil society leaders in Kenya and Uganda.  This session was the culmination of a process we started six months earlier when, with the support of the Ford Foundation, we partnered with Evidence and Methods Lab and Siasa Place to adapt our Accountability Incubator for Kenya and Uganda in the time of COVID-19.  We redesigned our flagship incubator program to support the next generation of accountability entrepreneurs with flexible, hands on knowledge-building, mentorship and support to develop ground-breaking ideas related to [...]

2021-02-01T09:33:08+00:001st February 2021|

Launch of Integrity Icon Somaliland in 2021

For immediate release. Launch of Integrity Icon Somaliland in 2021 7 January, Washington DC - Accountability Lab is excited to announce the launch of our prize-winning Integrity Icon Somaliland campaign to “name and fame” the most honest government officials in the region. This campaign will be supported by the government of the Netherlands and carried out along with a broad network of partners in Somaliland, ensuring that the campaign is contextualized and rooted in the experiences and stories of Somalilanders. It is being designed to allow for deep citizen engagement and broad public participation around issues of integrity and honest public [...]

2021-01-11T15:03:58+00:0011th January 2021|

Women’s Health During COVID-19 in Pakistan

Dangers of not knowing enough about COVID-19’s impact on women in Pakistan According to UN Women’s data, as compared to their male counterparts, women in Pakistan and Bangladesh are less likely to receive information about COVID-19. This is attributed to a variety of reasons including limited access to the internet, limited cell phone ownership, and comparatively lower levels of education amongst women. According to the 2018 Global Digital Report, women in Pakistan are 37% less likely than men to own a mobile phone or have internet access. Limited access to necessary information about COVID-19 puts, not only women, but also [...]

2020-12-17T08:09:27+00:0017th December 2020|

Contribution du Accountability Lab Niger à la lutte contre la corruption au Niger

En ce 21e siècle, l’humanité fait face à beaucoup de défis colossaux qui sont devenus chroniques et structurels. Parmi ceuxci on peut citer la corruption qui est le principal obstacle au développement économique et social dans le monde. La corruption est la perversion ou le détournement d’un processus ou d’une interaction avec une ou plusieurs personnes dont le dessein, pour le corrupteur est d’obtenir des avantages ou des prérogatives particulières ou, pour le corrompu est d’obtenir une rétribution en échange de sa complaisance. Elle conduit en général à l’enrichissement personnel du corrompu ou à l’enrichissement de l’organisation corruptrice. (Wikipedia) Chaque [...]

2021-03-30T13:21:17+00:009th December 2020|

Niger’s Civic Action Teams (CivActs) Campaign

The COVID-19 pandemic presents humanity with one of the greatest major challenges it has faced in a century. The disease has caused enormous and devastating crises, from social and economic to political and environmental. In these difficult times, the community faces rumours, misinformation and false news that circulate via social networks and mass media to a point where it is not how it is. In Niger, the government has taken important measures to reduce the spread of the virus, such as declaring a state of emergency, closing land and air borders, strengthening health protection measures, etc. The government has also [...]

2020-12-18T09:49:56+00:0026th November 2020|
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