Advocating for Acceptance

Governance challenges are often solved by bringing people together to work towards a common good. Diana Sididi is passionate about showing that a misunderstanding of each other’s differences is the root of much of the conflict in Mali and that part of the solution lies in highlighting the beauty in these differences. By Kibo Ngowi Diana Sididi is the founder of Derhane, a vlog that advocates for the acceptance of people living with attributes that are different from the norm in Malian society. The groups that Derhane advocates for extend from those with physical disabilities to people from minority ethnic [...]

2020-07-31T11:41:18+00:0013th April 2020|

Mariam Odunayo Nurudeen-Arole – AL Nigeria Accountability Incubator 2020

Mariam Odunayo Nurudeen-Arole is a legal practitioner with two years of post-call experience. She is also the Director of Programme for the Pro bono Centre, an emerging public interest litigation initiative. The initiative provides pro bono  legal services to indigent, disadvantaged and marginalised residents of Lagos State, particularly victims of gender-based violence, child abuse and unfair dismissals. She was selected to be a part of the 2020 cohort of Accountability Lab Nigeria's Accountability Incubator program. Through the incubator, she also intends to create an Accountable Endowment fund to cover the out of pocket expenses of pro bono lawyers  such as transport, cost [...]

2020-07-07T19:44:05+00:0028th March 2020|

Learning from failure – AL Pakistan’s First Fail Faire

Celebrating failure openly is a great avenue for authentic discussions with people who you may not know well but whose stories of failure embolden you to share yours and to accept failure as the first step to success. By Bakhtawar Khalid. While hosting my first Fail Faire, I learned how difficult it is for speakers to embrace failure and vulnerability. We are programmed to put our best foot forward, so sharing your failure story goes against your instincts to protect yourself. This is why Fail Faires have become a platform for open discussion that facilitates new connections among the audience [...]

2020-07-07T19:45:08+00:0027th March 2020|

‘Integrity Should Be Center of Our Education’

LRA Assist. Commissioner Jlateh asserts Integrity should be at the center of everyone’s education to promote change in the mindset of Liberians in order to succeed in nation-building, The Assistant Commissioner for Budget and Finance at the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) Mr. Ord-Siejepo Jlateh has recommended. Commissioner Jlateh who served as the keynote speaker at the launch of the 2020 Integrity Icon held at the office of Accountability Lab in Monrovia, observed that some individuals have the mindset of not waiting for their time but want quick money. As a result, they enter into a career far from what they [...]

2020-07-07T19:48:16+00:0019th March 2020|

What the fight against Ebola can teach us about beating the coronavirus

AL Director Blair Glencorse shares some very useful lessons in the Washington Post from Liberia’s Ebola crisis as the world grapples with the Corona Outbreak. Trusted voices and some strong coordinating efforts may be able to contain it. “We are monitoring everybody that comes in and out of our community, and if we don’t know them we track them carefully and take their temperature,” said Kou Gbaintor-Johnson, a local activist in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, as she showed me a clipboard with the names and telephone numbers of people who had entered her neighborhood. She explained that she and other [...]

2020-07-07T19:53:10+00:0013th March 2020|

Who Is Philly’s Integrity Icon?

We're running Integrity Icon Philadelphia in partnership with a number of Philly-based organizations including The Philadelphia Citizen, an innovative non-profit media outlet that combines solutions-oriented journalism with specific calls for civic action. The Citizen’s Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy lays out our shared vision for how Integrity Icon can celebrate and encourage the best of Philadelphia’s public service below. Talk to anyone who has dealings with the City, and you’ll hear a lot about city workers. Bureaucrats, inefficient, tied by unnecessary rules, political appointees who clock in, do the minimum needed, and then clock out. You know, city workers. But you’ll also, [...]

2020-06-01T08:49:51+00:0013th March 2020|

LOVE A TEACHER?

If you know an exemplary teacher in Philadelphia, help us and our partners The Philadelphia Citizen, SEAMAAC, WURD Radio and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey give them the recognition they deserve by nominating them for Integrity Icon Philadelphia. Talk to any parent in Philadelphia, and you’re bound, eventually, to get to the topic that’s always top of mind for those raising children in the city: schools. Talk to them long enough to get past the usual worries and you’ll likely find yourself hearing something beautiful and perhaps (to those looking on from the outside) surprising: That [...]

2020-07-07T19:54:15+00:0013th March 2020|

AL South Africa Annual Report released

In 2019, AL South Africa crowned its second batch of Integrity Icon winners after a successful national campaign to “name and fame” the country’s most honest government officials. The country office is building out the programme after a strong start in 2018 with votes peaking at 6,000. The team also ran its second film fellowship through which young socially-minded filmmakers produced short films about the Icons and gained valuable hands-on experience in narrative story-telling. Additionally, the team continued to support the work of the 2018 Integrity Icon winners and was happy to see them gain other forms of recognition for [...]

2020-07-07T19:57:48+00:006th March 2020|

Turning the tide on corruption calls for creativity and commitment to the rule of law

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation address rightly highlighted a critical lack of integrity amongst people in power as a big stumbling block to inclusive development. Our work at AL South Africa aims to change this. By Dadisai Taderera   For the past few months, I have been engaged as part of the country's National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) committee. Comprised of a diverse range of people from civil society, government and trade unions, the process has been rigorous and offers some key takeouts as President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation debate closed out in Parliament this [...]

2020-07-07T19:58:52+00:003rd March 2020|

Mali’s Accountability Incubator 2020 Cohort

Accountability Lab Mali has selected six accountapreneurs for the 2020 cohort of their accountability incubator program involved in everything from human rights and civil society to digital entertainment and filmmaking. Coumba Diakite is the founder of the company BY'RECYCL, which aims to put an end to the waste thrown in the streets of Mali. The company produces furniture and decorative objects made from used tires. In the long term the company wants to become a waste management industry and make West Africa an ecological example worldwide. In the city of Bamako, every day nearly 30,000 cubic metres of household waste is [...]

2020-07-07T20:05:04+00:002nd March 2020|
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