Archive for 2013
Accountability Lab Hosts an Accountability Film Festival in Liberia
On Tuesday, Accountability Lab held Liberia’s first festival, showcasing five short but powerful documentaries created by students of the Lab’s recent 5-week accountability filmmaking training program. After an introduction by the Accountability Lab Liberia team, attendees were given the first public viewing of the five new Liberian documentaries: “Dark Sunlight” by Hashim Pabai; “The Future”…
Read MoreRajneesh Receives Youth Action Fund Grant to Build Anti-Corruption Network
Nepali Accountapreneur Rajneesh Bhandari received a generous grant from Open Society Foundations’ Youth Action Fund for a project to build a network of investigative journalists to fight corruption in Nepal. The objective of the project, “A call to accountability: Voices of corruption fighters in Nepal,” is to use the Right to Information (RTI) Act to…
Read MoreThe Lab Conducts Accountability Training at the US Embassy in Kathmandu
Accountability Lab’s Nepal Country Representative, Narayan Adhikari, was recently invited to conduct a training session on “ The Pathway to Accountability – The Role of a Game Changer” at the US Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop was attended by 5 embassy staff members and 28 youth activists, representing a variety of youth organizations including…
Read MoreThe Lab Catalyzes Citizen Journalism in Liberia
This week the Accountability Lab launched its first online crowdfunding campaign to raise $3,000 in 30 days to support the work of “Accountapreneur” Alfred Sirleaf. Alfred is a Liberian citizen journalist who understood the hunger for information in his country. In response, he devised an innovative solution: the “Daily Talk,” a large chalk-billboard at one…
Read MoreA decade of aid dependence in Liberia
By: Blair Glencorse. This article was originally published by Devex. A decade ago, the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended 14 years of civil war in Liberia. Under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — the first female head of state in Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 — much progress has been made.…
Read MoreTesting new tools for accountability in higher education
By: Blair Glencorse. This article was originally published in Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Report: Education (Section 4.14). The international community has rarely engaged coherently on issues of corruption within higher education, focusing instead on issues such as building teachers’ capacity, infrastructure development and programmes to increase access. The learning to be garnered from testing…
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