Archive for 2016
Celebrate Accountability – Blair Glencorse (Social Entrepreneur)
This blog post was originally published by Paper Napkin Wisdom. Power is an interesting concept. Few other nouns evoke such a visceral response quite like the five letter word. Today’s Paper Napkin Wisdom guest has a unique take on power and has used this philosophy to guide his organization, Accountability Lab. “The best thing you can…
Read MoreCommunicating Impact: How Do We Tell Better Feedback Stories?
By: Anne Sophie Ranjbar, Associate Director of Accountability Lab As a small organization tackling the seemingly abstract issue of accountability, we’ve learned the great power of storytelling. We were excited to lead a “LabStorm” on how storytelling can be used to strengthen feedback loops at the annual Feedback Summit last week. Here’s what we asked…
Read MoreThe Perspective of a Visual Storytelling Fellow
By: Brittany Wait, Accountability Lab Visual Storytelling Fellow in Nepal I’m a master’s student in photography and film at Syracuse University. Thanks to a partnership through my college and the Accountability Lab based out of Washington, D.C., I spent the summer in Nepal on a visual storytelling fellowship. Thanks to my mentor Ken Harper, with…
Read MoreMedia Stakeholders Stress Accountability and Independence
By: Gbatemah Senah. This article was originally published by The Bush Chicken. At a recent discussion on the role of the media in society, several media stakeholders have stressed the need for accountability and independence within Liberia’s media industry. Serving as panelists was Lawrence Yealue, Country Representative of Accountability Lab Liberia; Jefferson Krua, founder of The Bush…
Read MoreIgnore Feedback Loops at Your Peril Evidence from Nepal
By: Narayan Adhikari, who runs the Accountability Lab in Nepal, and Pranav Budhathoki, Executive Director of Local Interventions Group. This blog post was originally published by Feedback Labs. In February 2016, almost a year after Nepal’s first devastating earthquake, government officials and 344 earthquake-affected Nepalis squatted on the grounds of a public school in the epicenter district of…
Read MoreIntegrity Idol Mali : Le fonctionnaire le plus intègre au Mali sera connu le 23 décembre 2016 (French)
Le projet « Intégrity Idol Mali », lancé il y a quelques mois, est sur la bonne voie. Après l’étape des nominations et du tri des meilleurs dossiers, le jury sélectionnera d’ici la fin du mois d’octobre, les 5 nominés. Avant la fin d’année, le fonctionnaire le plus intègre au Mali sera connu. Pour contribuer à la…
Read MorePeace 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…
Read MoreTalking 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.…
Read MoreLet the young people tell their stories: Accountability through Visual Storytelling
By: Surath Giri, Co-Founder and Director of Onion Films Nepal and an Accountability Lab ‘Accountapreneur’. It all started with a conversation over a cup of coffee in October 2013. Narayan Adhikari was trying to build an organization to promote accountability and good governance in Nepal by catalyzing local change makers. Govinda and I were creating a network of young,…
Read MoreWhere are we with the learning agenda in Nepal?
By: Samita Thapa, Accountability Lab Resident in Nepal At Accountability Lab, learning is an important part of our work; we see our role as trying new approaches, testing new ideas and then sharing the learning from those efforts with the larger development community both in Nepal and beyond. Last month, we held a Learning Event…
Read MoreYouth’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,…
Read MoreMaking 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…
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