Op-Ed: Ebola, the unbearable strain on Liberia’s fledgling democracy

This article was originally published by the Daily Maverick. By Brooks Marmon In recent months, the West African Republic of Liberia has received attention on a scale it has not experienced since its devastating civil war ended in 2003. The Ebola outbreak has not caused nearly as many fatalities as the 14-year war, but the crisis in Liberia and its two neighbours, Guinea and Sierra Leone, has captivated the world. What’s the way forward? By BROOKS MARMON. The attention given to Liberia has resulted in extensive discourse on the social impact of the disease in the Ebola affected countries: the [...]

2014-10-14T00:00:00+00:0014th October 2014|

Liberian Singers Use The Power Of Music To Raise Ebola Awareness

This post was originally published by NPR. By Jason Beaubien Elliott Adekoya, 31, aka The Milkman, is a DJ at Monrovia's Sky FM radio, pictured here his DJ booth. He is also part of a group of 45 Liberian musicians called the Save Liberia Project. They want to get the word out that Ebola is real, but it is not a death sentence. He says that message, which was propagated early on by the Ministry of Health, actually contributed to the problem. John W. Poole/NPR In West Africa, one of the simplest ways to slow the Ebola outbreak is to [...]

2014-10-12T00:00:00+00:0012th October 2014|

Knowmore LIB: Building Resilience and Defeating Ebola through Civic Education

This post was originally published by OpenIDEO. By Brooks Marmon The “Knowmore LIB” project aims to sensitize all Liberians on the dangers of the Ebola virus, practices to avoid and contain the disease, and to increase the trust of Liberian citizens in their government. The campaign uses innovative tools to help Liberians engage with policymakers and public health officials. The campaign will deploy chalk billboards around major cities and automated question boxes that allow citizens to ask questions about the Ebola virus; an Ebola awareness mural campaign; short films on Ebola through the students of an accountability film school; comic [...]

2014-10-10T00:00:00+00:0010th October 2014|

Liberian Senate calls for more transparency over Ebola funds

This article was originally published by The Guardian. By Robtel Neajai Pailey and Blair Glencorse Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has told aid donors ‘we must shorten the road from commitment to cash’. Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images Friday 26 September 2014 16.01 BSTLast modified on Thursday 2 February 2017 12.52 GMT Stately and unassuming, Liberia’s national Ebola taskforce coordinator James Dorbor Jallah announced at a press conference in late August that the government’s initial $5m (£3m) contribution to contain the disease had been spent. As he fumbled with the numbers in his expenditures report, the blogosphere exploded with queries about how all that [...]

2014-09-26T00:00:00+00:0026th September 2014|

Can We Kick out Corruption From the World Cup and Beyond?

By: Blair Glencorse and Seren Fryatt, Executive Director of L.A.C.E.S. This blog post was originally published by HuffPost Impact. Excitement for the Word Cup in Brazil is building, but the tournament has got off to a bad start even before the first ball has been kicked. Stadiums, airports and roads are still not finished, with just a day to go until the opening ceremony; and over10,000 of Brazil’s poorest people marched in Sao Paulo recently in protest against the cost of the event when so many Brazilians live in poverty. At the heart of these problems for football’s biggest tournament is corruption [...]

2014-06-11T00:00:00+00:0011th June 2014|

Transparency International Announces Winners of the 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Initiative for West Africa

This article was originally published by Transparency International Secretariat. Alexise Ouedraogo, a TV journalist from Cote d’Ivoire, Victor Akinwande, a software developer from Nigeria, and Lawrence Yealue, a technology activist from Liberia have been chosen as the winners of Transparency International’s Social Entrepreneurs Initiative for West Africa competition, Transparency International said today. The Social Entrepreneurs’ Initiative is run by the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) within Transparency International with the aim of empowering young people to fight corruption in their own communities. This is the first time that it has been run in West Africa. Over 65 entries from young people [...]

2014-06-02T00:00:00+00:002nd June 2014|

Design Thinking for Accountability

By: Blair Glencorse. This article was originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. A new community justice system in Liberia emerges from a design-thinking approach. Last year, in the West Point township of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, an enterprising community leader named Thomas Tweh found himself with a serious problem. West Point crams more than 75,000 citizens into a square mile patch of land by the Atlantic Ocean—and life is very hard. Space is limited, incomes are low, formal jobs are few, and basic services are almost non-existent. The issue Tweh faced was central to the causes [...]

2014-04-28T00:00:00+00:0028th April 2014|

Points of Light’s Civic Accelerator Launches its Spring 2014 Class – Invests in 14 Startups That Put People at Center of Change

This article was originally published by Points of Light, with founding support from PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. and Starbucks Foundation, and added support from Blackstone Charitable Foundation, SAP and official hotel sponsor Hilton Worldwide. The Points of Light’s Civic Accelerator – the first national startup accelerator dedicated solely to investing in civic ventures – announced today the 14 startups selected to participate in its spring 2014 program. This will be the fourth round of the Civic Accelerator since its founding in 2012. The ventures participating in the Civic Accelerator, which include for-profits, nonprofits and hybrids, all mobilize people to create positive change and [...]

2014-04-08T00:00:00+00:008th April 2014|

Liberia Rising

This article was originally published by Wings. By Larissa Clark Liberia may not be your average tourist destination but visitors will be rewarded by witnessing a nation undergoing extraordinary transition. As the country kicks off the ‘decade of peace’ beginning 2014, Larissa Clark, Director of travel company Another World Adventures, gives us Seven Reasons To Love Liberia… Welcome to Liberia, Africa’s oldest republic, a land of rich rainforest, endless deserted beaches, and phenomenal people. Lost to the world for two decades during a notorious civil war, which ended just over a decade ago in 2003, the country is now growing [...]

2014-03-03T00:00:00+00:003rd March 2014|
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