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Peace Incubator Established At Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture

This article was originally published by Pakistan Point. In collaboration with the Accountability Lab, a Peace Incubator has been established at the Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA). According to a handout issued here Friday, started as a pilot project, the two organizations will engage and train at least three cohorts of 25 students each and at least 10 faculty members in helping them build the skills for innovation, creativity, and social entrepreneurship around peace promotion and conflict mitigation. The broader concept behind the incubator is to orient the students about importance of promotion of a peace oriented eco-system [...]

2021-03-16T18:19:37+00:0015th October 2016|

Talking Accountability in Alaska: THE Biggest Challenge for Sustainable Tourism

By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director of the Accountability Lab I was lucky enough to attend my first Adventure Travel World Summit in Anchorage in September, and what a trip it was — full of incredible people, ideas and conversations. Coming from the non-profit rather than tourism world, it was a huge learning experience for me. The ATTA and its members play a critical role in pushing for responsible stewardship of our planet through support for sustainable tourism. I knew before I landed that accountability and corruption issues were a massive problem in the tourism industry. I’ve seen that first hand [...]

2016-10-05T00:00:00+00:005th October 2016|

Youth’s training session culminates

This article was originally published by the Daily News. A cohort of 20 youth from Sultanabad, Karachi was trained on social entrepreneurship skills to fight both the unemployment and civic challenges in their area. The training, imparted by the Accountability Lab in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan, focused on developing leadership, entrepreneurial, conflict management, and communication skills among the targeted youth. The training programme, spread over six months, besides training the selected youth on given topics, hand-holds them in developing their individual and collective civic projects that may promote transparency, accountability, and better governance in Sultanabad. [...]

2016-09-27T00:00:00+00:0027th September 2016|

Making All Voices Count: ICT can help improve governance, public services

By: Faran Mahmood, a Cambridge graduate and management consultant. This article was originally published by The Express Tribune. The recent attention to accountability, thanks to Panama Papers, has exposed contentious political fault lines that have emerged in the electoral system.   Though opposition parties have pitched a justified case for electoral reforms, the politics of getting it done have not changed. It is a howling storm of misrepresentation as parliament lacks the political will to translate such commitments into substantive political reforms. Therefore, people on one side of the spectrum are trying to fix the system while the other side stands [...]

2016-09-26T00:00:00+00:0026th September 2016|

Liberia Film Institute graduates 7th class of aspiring film-makers

By: Robin Dopoe Jr. This article was originally published by the Daily Observer.   Following months of intense training, the Liberia Film Institute in collaboration with Accountability Lab has graduated three students from it Seven Cycle Class. The three students were trained in technical film making skills with emphasis on issues like democracy, citizenship, and the importance of voting. During the graduation ceremony, the students screened movies on issues that deal with voters moving from one location to another to register for money; and the importance of excising their democracy right through voting. Though all the four student made films are [...]

2016-09-22T00:00:00+00:0022nd September 2016|

Music Post-Ebola: Artist Amaze says Hipco Songs Made Tremendous Impact

By: Heather Maxwell. This blog was originally published by Voice of America.   Music had a big role to play both during and in the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola epidemic. I found that out when I visited Monrovia in August. A lot of artists wrote songs about the personal experiences people had facing the disease. Henry Amazin’ Toe, a.k.a Amaze, is a well-established hipco artist who composed and recorded such songs.I met Amaze several times during my stay in the Liberian capital. The first time was during a group interview I held in Mamba Point with other artists (Teddy Ride and Margaret [...]

2016-09-21T00:00:00+00:0021st September 2016|

The government should encourage merit

By: Shakeel Anjum. This article was originally published by the Associated Press Service. While talking at the launch of Idol Integrity organized by Accountability Lab with the collaboration of National Press Club in Islamabad,  Muhammad Talal Ch of the Pakistan Muslim League said that the Cyber Crime Bill 2016 will not affect electronic and print media rather this law will deal only with cyber crimes. The basic issue of governance in Pakistan is human resource allocation, and legislation is essential to curb corruption by collective responsibilities of all political parties. The identification, promotion and awarding to honest government servants under Integrity Idol [...]

2016-08-08T00:00:00+00:008th August 2016|

Thinking about the intersections of accountability, gender and social movements

By: Parker P. Consulting. This blog post was originally published by Medium. Last weekend, members of BMW’s Responsible Leaders network, including Parker P. Consulting's Managing Director Chi Nguyen and the team of the Accountability Lab at Canada’s Wasan Island. Last week, I had the chance to learn more about the award-winning Accountability Lab. The lab is an incubator for young people working on accountability in their societies. Much of their work is focused on training, mentoring and providing resources for changemakers to be able to create conditions for better accountability. The lab sees itself as at its best when they [...]

2016-07-26T00:00:00+00:0026th July 2016|

As U.N. Winds Down Liberia Mission, Security Situation Remains Fragile

Photo: Peacekeepers of the U.N. Mission in Liberia’s Ghanaian battalion participate in a medal parade, Buchanan, Liberia, Nov. 16, 2012 (U.N. photo by Staton Winter). This article was originally published by World Politics Review. Earlier this month, the United Nations Mission in Liberia, or UNMIL, ended its security mandate and handed over security responsibilities to the Liberian government. In an email interview, Brooks Marmon, a program officer with Accountability Lab in Monrovia, Liberia, discusses the security situation in Liberia. WPR: How stable is the security situation in Liberia, and what are the current threats to stability? Brooks Marmon: [...]

2016-07-25T00:00:00+00:0025th July 2016|

Helping Liberians In Proper Voter Decision-Making: Accountability Lab-Liberia’s Worthy Initiative

This article was originally published by the Daily Observer. The most important act in any election anywhere is not how much money is spent on election preparations, how well they are organized or how much rhetoric and cash candidates spend to woo voters. What is rather more central, critical, compelling in any election is the decision or those decisions each voter will make inside that voting booth. The fundamental question facing the voter will be who to vote for. Should I vote for a crook, a hypocrite, a selfish and corrupt candidate who only wooed me with a bag of [...]

2016-06-23T00:00:00+00:0023rd June 2016|
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