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Making The Translocal Network Real: The Junior Staff Council

Written by Alawi Masud As a primarily youth focused organization, Accountability Lab understands that junior level staff bring critical perspectives on our work,  provide important support to projects, and fuel innovation and connectivity. But as with many organizations that have many staff working on a variety of issues across 11 geographies, there is always room to better engage our teams. In order to provide a more formal space for junior staff all around the world to to build interpersonal relationships, support each other’s work, learn from one another, and connect with senior Accountability Lab staff, AL developed the Junior Staff [...]

2023-01-16T12:44:01+00:0016th January 2023|

Our 2020-2023 Strategy – What Were The Challenges?

Written by Blair Glencorse As we launch our new 2023-2026 strategy, we have been reflecting on the challenges we faced during our last strategy. The 2020-2023 period was a very difficult time for many organizations, of course, ourselves included. Just as we finalized our new strategy at the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 began to fundamentally upend global health, politics and economics. As our strategy came to an end, the war in Ukraine and related political problems, and broader economic challenges had undermined our ability to plan or deliver on organizational goals. At the country level, during the 2020-2023 period we [...]

2023-01-17T14:31:41+00:0016th January 2023|

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|

Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms in Balochistan

In the words of Stephen Covey, “Accountability breeds response-ability.” This stands true at an individual as well as governmental level. When governments are accountable to their people,  they are more responsive to the needs of the people. When we talk of democracy, the government's financial accountability is undoubtedly a fundamental and distinctive aspect of parliamentary oversight. In the public's best interest, the government must disclose, defend, and justify its policies and actions before the legislature. This oversight needs to be complemented by state mechanisms to ensure accountability and responsiveness. It requires a framework through which government departments can be held [...]

2022-11-14T09:17:47+00:008th November 2022|

Six key takeaways from Gov-HER-Nance in Pakistan!

Written by Farhan Khalid Pakistan was ranked as the second-worst country in terms of gender parity (145 out of 146 countries) in the Global Gender Gap/Parity Report released by the World Economic Forum in July 2022. Out of the four key indicators that form the basis of the gender parity index - including Educational Attainment, Health, and Survival, Political Empowerment, and Economic Participation and Opportunity - the country ranked 145th on economic participation and opportunity and 143rd on health and survival.   It could be argued that the Covid-19 pandemic, apart from other ongoing factors, played a vital role in these [...]

2022-10-17T11:51:49+00:0017th October 2022|

Public Service Bureau Hosts Roundtable On National Ethics, Integrity Policy

The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) in collaboration with Accountability Lab yesterday hosted a one-day roundtable sensitisation on the code of conduct for public officers and the national ethics and integrity policy.  The event which had several representatives of civil servants from different government MDAs, military and para-military in attendance discussed and developed a joint strategy for the enforcement of the Code of Conduct for Public Servants and National Ethics and Integrity Policy. The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, MR. Dasuki I. Arabi said the roundtable workshop was coming on the heels of findings from a [...]

2022-10-26T14:00:21+00:0013th October 2022|

Rebuilding Accountability Chains One Action and Community at a Time

By Alois Nyamazana Zimbabwe’s informal economy is the second largest in the world. The ILO estimates that 5.2 million people trade in the informal economy (compared to 495,000 who are in formal employment), and 65% of these are women. Informal trade is a precarious and insecure source of livelihood. Adding to this challenge is the criminalization of informal trade[  as a result of an insufficient policy environment. Informal traders constantly face harassment from authorities. For example, in Goromonzi, traders are in constant conflict with state and municipal authorities. This has resulted in traders losing valuable income, and women traders facing sexual [...]

2022-10-05T08:25:04+00:003rd October 2022|

Read Accountability Lab’s draft strategy for 2023-2026

We're releasing our draft Strategy for 2023-2026 for public comment. Please take a read and then let us know how you would change or improve some of our goals in this form. Over the past decade, we have experimented, learned, and tested, and now that we have significant buy-in for our work, we are scaling up our efforts as the new way to work within the accountability field. We’d appreciate your comments and suggestions here. We aim to finalize and release this new strategy before the end of November, 2022.   Highlights Accountability Lab makes governance work for people. We [...]

2022-09-26T17:23:50+00:0026th September 2022|

Supporting Reform and Conscious Music in South Africa & Nigeria

Through the support of Luminate, our Labs in Nigeria and South Africa were able to keep building networks of young music artists - through the Voice2Rep campaign - and government reformers - through the Integrity Icon campaign - all committed to creating a culture of integrity and accountability in their respective societies.  Government Reformers Through Integrity Icon both Labs seek to highlight reformers who can actively push for change within their institutions. They seek to identify Icons who must not only demonstrate honesty, integrity and accountability in their field of work, but also demonstrate the ability to influence social norms [...]

2022-09-12T08:33:55+00:0012th September 2022|

Design thinking in the public service – can innovation fix the police services in Pakistan?

Design thinking is a flexible methodology but provides a set of tools based on a mindset. The mindset is geared towards creativity and problem-solving. How problem-solving can be used in organizational thinking is a challenge for leaders. Umar Riaz, Director of the National Police Academy in Islamabad, takes a closer look.   While leaders in the corporate world have long embraced this concept to remain competitive and ahead of the curve, public sector adoption was long overdue. The private sector has been instrumental in using design thinking for its survival and having an edge over its competitors. But the public [...]

2022-12-07T14:36:05+00:008th September 2022|
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