Archive for 2019
Accountability Lab’s Staff of the Year for 2019
2019 has been filled with many highlights and many lessons, and through the Staff of the Year nomination process we were reminded of how our teams are our strongest assets. Among us we have wonderful ambassadors for our values, creative problem-solvers, and thoughtful network-builders. But, above all else, we are all privileged to work with people…
Read MoreA Liberian, an American and a group of Europeans were in Sierra Leone…
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, launched a five-year National Anti-Corruption Strategy for the country at an event that was attended by the European Union. EU representative, Mats Leljefelt, made a speech celebrating the actions of the government to fight corruption. Just three months later, Accountability…
Read More“Integrity is a team effort”
“Integrity is a team effort, not just the work of a single person” ~Kajiman Rai, Integrity Icon 2019 It takes more than one person to promote, maintain and preserve integrity. Sometimes you have to go above your TOR, and if your team is not ready to work with you, it gets difficult to walk this…
Read MoreIntegrity Icon at King’s College Nepal
“You can’t change the system through plain speaking; you need to get into the system and change it with your own will” – Srijana Tiwari On 19th September 2019, Integrity Icon Mrs. Srijana Tiwari visited King’s College Nepal to make future leaders aware about key issues of integrity in the civil society. In the presence…
Read MoreLiberian Hipco stars release Integrity Icon song
Two of the Liberian hipco music scene’s biggest names, Amaze Yor and Beat Master, have collaborated with Accountability Lab to produce a song for our flagship Integrity Icon programme in Liberia. The two artists are currently Hipco Accountability Ambassadors who mentor other underground artists to create music for social change. Hipco is a genre of…
Read MoreBeyond Protest: Harnessing People Power for the New Decade
Shaazka Beyerle is a Senior Research Advisor in the Program on Nonviolent Action at the United States Institute of Peace and a Senior Advisor with ICNC. Here, she writes about what research conducted by her and her colleagues has revealed about the power of non-violent protest in social movements that have recognised the systemic nature…
Read MoreONE-Accountability Lab Partner with Trace Africa to Launch 2019 Accountability Music Awards
As the world commemorates International Anti-Corruption Day, ONE and Accountability Lab have partnered with continental Pop giants, Trace Africa, to launch the 2019 Accountability Music Awards. The awards celebrate the African musicians who use their voice to call for more transparency and accountability in Africa. Viewers on Trace Naija, Trace Urban and Trace Afrique, will…
Read MoreFlipping the Corruption Narrative in Pakistan
Transparency and accountability have been a key policy pillar of the PTI government since it came to power last year – for well-known reasons. The stories about corruption overwhelm us – from high-level cases against politicians, to graft within the police, to wrong-doing in colleges. Every day there are alarmist pieces about the impact that…
Read MoreSA Film Fellow Londeka Mazibuko addresses child abandonment
Londeka Mazibuko was an Integrity Icon Film Fellow for 2019 and is an aspiring film producer. She has previously worked on the set of Uzalo and most recently directored SWIFT’s national campaign on sexual harassment. She tells us more about her personal film project, “I am Human too” which she completed as part of her…
Read MoreDisinformation, Fake News and Integrity Icon
The world was a different place when we launched our Integrity Icon campaign five years ago. If we think of changes in everything from political leadership to cultural or social trends – the things we were supporting, reading or listening to in 2014 are probably not the same today. Integrity Icon was even known as…
Read MoreDriving positive narratives about change and accountability
The world over, a lack of accountability is undermining fair, equal societies; the most marginalised voices are not heard in critical conversations and leaders are not held responsible for their decisions. This in turn means people in power are not held to account or answerable for the use of that power. Accountability is critical as…
Read MoreIntegrity School Nepal 2019: beginning the journey
Accountability Lab Nepal recently launched its Integrity School for 2020, a year-long program that aims to build future leaders to be the building blocks of an accountability ecosystem in the country. Madhu Sudhan Ghimire, an Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, shares the surprises, learnings and discussions of his first three days in the program…
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