Posts by eedev
Taking Open Governance from Cape Town to Monrovia
By: Francis Lansana, Accountability Lab Liberia Resident. This blog post was originally published by the Open Government Partnership. “Open Government for Sustainable Development in Africa” was the theme for this year’s Open Government Partnership Regional Conference for Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference brought together over 900 participants from all corners of…
Read MorePolitics, Persistence, & Publicity – transforming education in Pakistan
By: Rafia Malik, Fayyaz Yaseen, and Syed Kauser Abbas. This blog post was originally published by Making All Voices Count. In 2015, Accountability Lab won one of the top spots in Making All Voices Count’s Global Innovation Competition with their project that brings tech-savvy youth activists together with Pakistan’s open data movement. A…
Read More5 steps to curtail corruption in Pakistan
By: Pakistan Representative Fayyaz Yaseen and Executive Director Blair Glencorse. This blog post was originally published by the World Economic Forum. “What kind of Pakistan do we want for our children?”, a civil society activist asked recently. “It has to be an inclusive state which is fair, honest and open to everyone.” The promise of this future lies in…
Read MoreLiberia: Using Music to Enlighten the Youth On Why It Is Important to Vote
By: Claudia Smith. This article was originally published by the Daily Observer. “I believe we are to know who to vote for in other for us to have a better nation or society, despite the poverty and hardship we are faced with. We shouldn’t be carried away by politicians with mere talks to gain their…
Read MoreWalking the Talk- The Open Government Partnership Steering Committee
By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director of the Accountability Lab Last month, I was privileged to be considered as a candidate for the Civil Society Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)- the international governance body for the initiative. Civil society members on the Steering Committee play a number of roles- chiefly setting the direction…
Read MoreIntroducing Our New Staff Member!
We’re very excited to welcome Anusha Yadav as the newest member of the Accountability Lab staff! She will serve as our Communications and Development Manager, based out of our Washington DC headquarters. Her marketing skills, understanding of Nepali social change space, and positive energy are will help us grow and improve at an even faster pace. Read more about her background below, and…
Read MorePresident Sirleaf Calls for Accountable, Responsible, Professional Media
This article was originally published by the Executive Mansion. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has opened a Two-Day “Media Law and Regulatory Reform Stakeholders’ Conference in Monrovia According to an Executive Mansion release, the two-day conference is being organized at the behest of Internews (Liberia Media Development Program) in partnership with Albany Associates of the UK,…
Read MoreVoices of Civic Champions: Bridging the gap between communities and policies
By: Mehwish Niaz, Accountability Lab Pakistan Accountapreneur “Engaging local governments in youth development through a holistic, iterative approach to policy formulation and execution, national governments can help promote youth civic engagement through a cohesive strategy that invests in young people as catalysts for sustainable growth.” How can we best encourage active citizenship? What does it…
Read MoreAccountability Lab Honored as Brown Democracy Medal Finalist
This article was originally published by Penn State News. The McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State is pleased to announce that the Electoral Integrity Project has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Brown Democracy Medal. The Electoral Integrity Project has established a set of criteria with which to evaluate the integrity of…
Read MoreIdeas for Future Work on Transparency and Accountability
By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director, Accountability Lab. This article was originally published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a collection of twenty think pieces by leading scholars and activists on the future of the transparency and accountability movement, commissioned by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI) and curated and edited by Thomas Carothers. Getting Closer to the…
Read MoreOne Year On: Learning from Feedback After the Earthquake in Nepal
By: Marc Maxmeister, GlobalGiving Innovation Consultant; Narayan Adhikari, Accountability Lab Nepal Country Representative, and Pranav Budhathoki, Local Interventions Group Executive Director. This blog post was originally published on GlobalGiving’s Tools + Training blog. Accountability Lab is a recipient of our 2015 Feedback Fund. Recently they shared these insights with us. In April of 2015, twin earthquakes in Nepal killed over 8,000…
Read MoreHow politics got in the way of needed Nepal earthquake relief
One year ago, the first of two massive earthquakes ripped through Nepal, killing more than 8,000 people. Some $4 billion of assistance was pledged to the rebuilding effort, but political gridlock and corruption have left the displaced survivors to largely fend for themselves. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports in partnership with the Pulitzer…
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