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Nuwakot: 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,…
Read MoreThinking about the intersections of accountability, gender and social movements
By: Parker P. Consulting. This blog post was originally published by Medium. Last weekend, members of BMW’s Responsible Leaders network, including Parker P. Consulting’s Managing Director Chi Nguyen and the team of the Accountability Lab at Canada’s Wasan Island. Last week, I had the chance to learn more about the award-winning Accountability Lab. The lab…
Read MoreAs U.N. Winds Down Liberia Mission, Security Situation Remains Fragile
This article was originally published by World Politics Review. Earlier this month, the United Nations Mission in Liberia, or UNMIL, ended its security mandate and handed over security responsibilities to the Liberian government. In an email interview, Brooks Marmon, a program officer with Accountability Lab in Monrovia, Liberia, discusses the security situation in Liberia. WPR:…
Read MorePreventing Violence through Mediation as Liberia Transitions, Part 2
By: Beth Goldberg (Summer Resident Fellow at Accountability Lab Liberia) and John Kamma (Founder of Citizens Bureau for Development and Productivity, and Accountapreneur). This blog post is the second in a series about the Community Justice Team in Logan Town, Liberia. Mr. Kamma and his team of mediators face three primary challenges in delivering justice…
Read MorePreventing Violence through Mediation as Liberia Transitions, Part 1
By: Beth Goldberg (Summer Resident Fellow at Accountability Lab Liberia) and John Kamma (Founder of Citizens Bureau for Development and Productivity, and Accountapreneur) The five mediators sat along the wall of the bright blue room, sweat beading in the stagnant Liberian heat as the office manager, Rockson, recalled a recent case: A 16 year-old girl…
Read MoreCan corruption act as a barrier to entry in the private sector?
By: Talib uz Zaman, CIPE Pakistan Programme Officer, and Accountability Lab Pakistan Accountapreneur “Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power” – William Gaddis Corruption, defined as exploitation of entrusted power for private benefit is, unfortunately, prevalent in Pakistan. It can take many forms, including bribery, graft, theft and extortion. In the corporate sector, its presence…
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