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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|

Integrity Icon Philly Awards Ceremony

We celebrated the public servants named the first-ever heroes of high integrity in Philly—and the country. See why they are role models for all of us. BY JESSICA BLATT PRESS What is Integrity? To the five local heroes we honored on Friday night as the first-ever Integrity Icons in Philadelphia—and the country—it means many things, all of them inspiring. “Integrity is not something you do, it’s who you are,” said Richard Gordon IV, the principal at Paul Robeson High School. Gordon, who was also named Principal of the Year for 2020, shared that his earliest model of integrity was his mother, Cecilia Watkins. In [...]

2021-03-31T13:08:24+00:002nd 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|

SSUET inks MoU with Accountability Lab

The Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET) and Accountability Lab inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) earlier this week to execute capacity-building initiatives to engage faculty and students to develop their various skills including critical thinking, civic engagement, responsible leadership, empathy and conflict management. The SSUET will provide its infrastructure for carrying out workshops, seminars and other project activities and encourage its faculty and students to actively taking part in those activities. Under the MoU, small grants will be given to small-scale innovative social action plans. The Accountability Lab is working to strengthen academic and community networks to [...]

2021-03-31T13:14:07+00:0014th 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|

Rap2Rep Liberia changes name to Voice2Rep

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monrovia, February 1 2021 - Accountability Lab Liberia, a nonprofit institution that makes governance work for people, announced today that it has changed the name of its Rap2Rep conscious music campaign to Voice2Rep.  The name change reflects the different genres of music that we’ve started attracting in our call for applications, which include hipco, rap, soul and pop. It is geared at having a more diverse campaign which stands to make the Voice2Rep campaign more meaningful for a larger proportion of the Liberian youth community that it is targeted at. It also aligns the Liberian campaign with other [...]

2021-02-14T02:45:34+00:001st February 2021|

Accountability Lab Liberia Unveils 2020 Integrity Icons

The Accountability Lab Liberia, a non-profit organization working in the field of active citizenship and good governance has selected five persons from the education, security, health, anti-corruption, and infrastructure development sector as Integrity Icons for 2020. After a rigorous sorting process, the top five finalists were selected from 30 nominations by a team of judges consisting of veteran journalist Mae Azango, Mr. Abayomi Cole, and Madam Ame David. This year’s event which took place at the Accountability Lab Liberia office on Carey Street was under the theme: “Integrity and Accountability: tools for strategic nation-building”. This year marks the sixth edition [...]

2021-03-31T12:49:54+00:0031st January 2021|

Conoce a los ganadores de la distinción “Íconos de Integridad” edición Sustentabilidad

Tras evaluar 43 perfiles de servidores públicos nominados en la iniciativa “Integrity Icon Sustentabilidad”, cinco fueron los ganadores de tal reconocimiento. “Integrity Icon”, campaña global de Accountability Lab, es impulsada por ciudadanos en busca de funcionarios gubernamentales honestos. En 2020 se desarrolló por primera ocasión en México en su versión “Sustentabilidad” con el apoyo de Causa Natura y Reforestamos México y tuvo como objetivo generar un debate en torno a la idea de integridad y demostrar la importancia de la honestidad y la responsabilidad personal en el servicio público. Tras la valoración de un panel de expertos, se determinaron a [...]

2021-03-31T12:23:37+00:0031st January 2021|

Lanzan campaña para premiar a funcionarios que realicen acciones sustentables

Integrity Icon Mexico de Accountability Lab, en unión con las organizaciones civiles Reforestamos Mexico y Causa Natura, lanzaron Sustentabilidad 2020 con la finalidad de reconocer a los funcionarios públicos que realicen acciones sustentables en el país. Durante un seminario web, la directora de AL en Mexico, Eva Sander, informó que la iniciativa busca premiar a cinco personas que trabajen con base al cumplimento de los 17 objetivos de desarrollo Sostenible de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). “Lejos de solo ser un diploma, es un reconocimiento para inspirar y convertir a estas personas en personas visibles; elevar su perfil [...]

2021-03-31T12:12:57+00:0031st January 2021|

Who Is Philly’s Integrity Icon?

BY JESSICA BLATT PRESS Remember March? Before the world imploded, back on March 2nd, The Citizen announced the launch of Integrity Icon, a contest in partnership SEAMAAC, WURD Radio, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and D.C.-based Accountability Lab to name the publicly-paid workers in Philly who show the highest amount of integrity in their jobs. We called for citizens to submit their nominations. Then, we asked a panel of judges to review them, and narrow down the candidates to just five. DO SOMETHING Vote The judges were appointed based on their own levels of integrity. There was Michael O’Bryan, an expert in community [...]

2021-03-31T11:46:08+00:0020th January 2021|
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