My Four Open Government Takeaways from Tanzania

By: Francis Lansana, Accountability Lab Resident in Liberia. The blog post was originally published on the Open Government Partnership blog. This year’s Open Government Partnership regional meeting for Africa was held last month in Dar es Salaam, under the theme “Enhancing Accountability through Open Governance”. The meeting included over 300 participants from across government, the private sector, civil society, academia and more, which brought a significant diversity of perspectives to the meeting. From the Liberian perspective- where we have faced challenges over time but have also made significant progress in building-out a 2nd implementation plan for the OGP- here are my [...]

2015-06-25T00:00:00+00:0025th June 2015|

From the ground: Accountability Lab’s Nepal earthquake relief efforts

By: Emily Collins, Marketing and Communications Fellow at GlobalGiving. This blog post was originally published on GlobalGiving’s GlobalGoodness blog. For earthquake relief in Nepal, connection is key. Displaced Nepali citizens found themselves unable to connect with organizations to provide essential needs, like food, water, and medical aid. Accountability Lab is dedicated to making this connection possible. At GlobalGiving, we were fortunate enough to get in contact with Narayan Adhikari, the representative for Accountability Lab: South Asia, and gather a bit of look into what is happening on the ground in Nepal. Through their Mobile Citizen Helpdesk project, Narayan and Accountability Lab have been able [...]

2015-06-24T00:00:00+00:0024th June 2015|

LiVArts And Accountability Lab Resume Art Classes

”Clean Your Community”, by George N. Flomo, first place winner “Stop Beating Your Partner”, by Emmanuel F. Yekeh Jr., second place winner “Teacher Refusing Bribe”, by Tracy Lumeh, third place winner of the Accountability Art Class. LiVArts And Accountability Lab Resume Art Classes By: Robin Dopoe Jr, [email protected]. Originally published in the Daily Observer. Liberia Visual Arts Academy (LiVArts), in collaboration with the Accountability Lab, has finally resumed art classes in an effort to reassure its commitment to the development of youth art. At the reopening of the art classes last weekend, Mr. Brooks Marmon, Program Director of Accountability Lab said, [...]

2015-06-18T00:00:00+00:0018th June 2015|

LiVArts and Accountability Lab Re-launch Accountability Arts School for Youth

Liberia Visual Arts Academy and Accountability Lab Re-launch Accountability Arts School for Youth Press Release by Francis Lansana of Accountability Lab and Leon Wilson of LiVArts. The Liberia Visual Arts Academy (LIVArts) and the Accountability Lab are pleased to announce the re-launch on Saturday, June 6, of a collaborative Accountability Arts School following a long period of postponement induced by the Ebola crisis. The School will consist of three monthly sessions followed by a public exhibition of the artwork produced by participating students. The Accountability Lab will offer technical and financial assistance for the initiative while LIVArts will oversee logistics and all [...]

2015-06-03T00:00:00+00:003rd June 2015|

Top 10 Challenges in Nepal After the Earthquakes

By: Ashley Ann Day and Suman Parajuli, Accountability Lab Residents. The destruction caused by the Nepal earthquakes is staggering: 8,676 dead, 21,952 injured, and almost 500,000 homes destroyed. Millions of people have been affected by these natural disasters, and the trauma is far from over. Displaced citizens living in tents and temporary shelters are facing a host of issues, including corruption and insecurity. At the Accountability Lab, in partnership with our friends at Local Interventions Group, we’ve set up Mobile Citizen Helpdesks across the ten most-affected districts to identify these challenges and fix problems. Groups of five to seven volunteers have [...]

2015-06-01T00:00:00+00:001st June 2015|

Shaking Up the Status Quo in Nepal

Shaking Up the Status Quo in Nepal By BLAIR GLENCORSE and SUJEEV SHAKYA. Originally Published in the New York Times.   “Ke garne?” an old lady said to us, tears pouring down her cheeks, as we visited her earthquake-battered village in the Dhading district of Nepal last month: “What to do?” With a history of repeated crises — political, economic and natural — it has become the Nepali way to shrug one’s shoulders and hope for the best. Sadly, people have been hoping for a long time: even before the earthquakes, Nepal was one of the poorest, most corrupt and least [...]

2015-06-01T00:00:00+00:001st June 2015|

Accountability Lab Executive Director Joins World Economic Forum

Accountability Lab Executive Director Joins World Economic Forum The Accountability Lab’s Executive Director, Blair Glencorse, has accepted an invitation to become a Member of the Global Agenda Council on Transparency & Anti-Corruption with the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. The Council aligns with the work the Lab has been doing by stimulating conversation, action, and transformation in the anticorruption and transparency arena. The nomination reflects the Lab’s role as a prominent leader in new ideas and creative approaches to accountability around the world. The opportunity to join this esteemed knowledge-network will provide a catalyst to broadcasting the issue of [...]

2015-05-27T00:00:00+00:0027th May 2015|

The Faces of Liberia Film Institute

The Faces of Liberia Film Institute Divine Key Anderson (left) teaches a class about the use of a green screen in film making at the Liberia Film Institute on May 6, 2015. (Photo by Jim Tuttle / Accountability Lab) By: Jim Tuttle, Accountability Lab Liberia Multi-media Fellow Liberia Film Institute’s latest class of filmmakers recently completed a series of short documentaries and dramas dealing with their country’s unprecedented Ebola outbreak. They have been screening their films in communities around the country, and a large film festival in Monrovia is being planned for late June. Here’s a look at some of the student [...]

2015-05-20T00:00:00+00:0020th May 2015|

The Predictable Disaster in Nepal

The Predictable Disaster in Nepal By: Blair Glencorse and Narayan Adhikari. This blog post was originally published by The Aspen Institute. Photo credit: Accountability Lab, Nepal The people of Nepal have known for a long time that a big earthquake was coming, and it finally arrived last week. Villages have been wiped out, thousands are dead or missing, and swaths of cultural heritage have been lost. Even now it is unclear what the situation is like in remote parts of districts that have been cut off from help by collapsed infrastructure and landslides. The incredible goodwill from around the world is [...]

2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:005th May 2015|

How I became Nepal’s first-ever ‘Integrity Idol’

By; Gyan Mani Nepal. This blog post was originally published on Oxfam America's The Politics of Poverty blog. A district education officer in rural Nepal sets a course for school reforms (and becomes a national celebrity along the way!) Nepal’s first Integrity Idol Awards were given in January 2014 to shine a spotlight on honest and industrious civil servants in a country where government officials are often associated with corruption and incompetence. Gyan Mani Nepal was chosen among five finalists from over 300 nominees. Their profiles were aired on national TV and posted on social media for people to vote via [...]

2015-03-23T00:00:00+00:0023rd March 2015|
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