Archive for 2016
One year working to close the feedback loop
By: Sara Rodriguez, Accountability Lab Resident in Nepal One year after I joined the Mobile Citizens Helpdesk (MCHD) team and one and a half years after two massive earthquakes changed the lives of thousands of Nepalis, I visited two of the fourteen districts MCHD works within, Kavre and Sindhupalchowk. Sadly, the scene hasn’t changed much since…
Read MoreLiberia Film Institute graduates 7th class of aspiring film-makers
By: Robin Dopoe Jr. This article was originally published by the Daily Observer. Following months of intense training, the Liberia Film Institute in collaboration with Accountability Lab has graduated three students from it Seven Cycle Class. The three students were trained in technical film making skills with emphasis on issues like democracy, citizenship, and the…
Read MoreMusic Post-Ebola: Artist Amaze says Hipco Songs Made Tremendous Impact
By: Heather Maxwell. This blog was originally published by Voice of America. Music had a big role to play both during and in the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola epidemic. I found that out when I visited Monrovia in August. A lot of artists wrote songs about the personal experiences people had facing the…
Read MoreThey came for the music and left with the message
By: Heather Gilberds On Saturday, September 10th, Accountability Lab Liberia’s work attracted hundreds of young people to a town hall in Kakata, the capital city of Margibi county, where they gathered to listen to the latest songs from their favorite Hip Co artists. Hip Co music is uniquely Liberian—a form of hip hop that emerged…
Read MoreCrowdfunding development aid would direct funds where they are needed most
Websites such as GlobalGiving and Kickstarter have re-imagined the way we support issues we care about. Can we do the same for aid programmes? By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director at Accountability Lab. This article was originally published by The Guardian. As world leaders descend on New York this week for the UN general assembly, the…
Read MoreNuwakot: Land Of Dreamers And Healers
By: Brittany Wait, Visual Storytelling Fellow in Nepal Walk with me… …through Kharanitar, a rural village in the Nuwakot district of Nepal still rebuilding after the 2015 earthquakes. We spent two days working alongside Nepali nonprofit, Visible Impact, educating 15 local girls on accountability and activism. One of our accountapreneurs, Medha Sharma, its president and CEO, and…
Read MoreAn Impact Weekend with the BMW Foundation
Achieving Something Special at a Wilderness Retreat By: Narayan Adhikari, Nepal Country Representative for Accountability Lab Recently, the BMW Foundation convened a group on Wasan Island in Canada- a beautiful retreat in the Muskoka lakes about three hours north of Toronto. It was a perfect, remote location to disconnect and discuss the Accountability Lab. I was…
Read More4 Principles of Collaborative Movement-building
By: Victoria Forsgate, Accountability Lab’s Indonesia Country Representative. Today’s young people are some of the most connected and committed activists for accountability, transparency and citizen engagement we’ve seen for generations. In recent months, I’ve been scoping how Accountability Lab could support young people to build collaborative movements for change in Indonesia, where 26% of the…
Read MoreIntern Insights: Thukten Lama
On International Youth Day, we wanted to share how interns joining our team are also learning along with us. Here are Thukten’s reflections on what he has been learning from his internship at Accountability Lab Nepal this summer. On the second week of July, while Nepal was busy with the countdown to the Euro Cup finals…
Read MoreDebating Integrity Idol Liberia with the Street Parliaments
By: Beth Goldberg, Resident Summer Fellow at Accountability Lab Liberia In Buchanan, Liberia, we sat circled around glasses of hot, milky tea in an open-air tea shop, far from a traditional parliament. The 20 members of the “street parliament” opened the meeting with a call and response chant, melding the disparate group of men into one…
Read MoreThe government should encourage merit
By: Shakeel Anjum. This article was originally published by the Associated Press Service. While talking at the launch of Idol Integrity organized by Accountability Lab with the collaboration of National Press Club in Islamabad, Muhammad Talal Ch of the Pakistan Muslim League said that the Cyber Crime Bill 2016 will not affect electronic and print media rather…
Read MoreIntegrity Idol: How a reality TV show is changing minds about public service
By: Roxanne Bauer. This blog post was originally published by The World Bank’s People, Spaces, Deliberation blog. In an age when celebrity culture and corruption appear to be omnipresent, it’s quite refreshing to be reminded that there are good people doing good work day in and day out. These people work in our school systems,…
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