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Reflecting on Ebola, Trust and Justice in Liberia
By: Brooks Marmon, Accountability Architect for Accountability Lab in Monrovia, Liberia. On August 5, nearly 20 community mediators supported by the Accountability Lab joined representatives from civil society, Liberia’s Ministry of Justice, and the United Nations Mission in Liberia to discuss “Informal Justice Interventions in the Time of Ebola”. The event, convened in partnership with the…
Read MoreMobile Film Screenings: A Wide-Reaching Tool for Civic Outreach
By: Meghan Schneider, Accountability Lab Summer Design Resident Earlier this year students at the Liberia Film Institute (LFI) created a series of documentaries and dramas about the Ebola epidemic that ravaged Liberia. The films covered a range of topics including the stigma survivors face, sexual transmission of the disease, and accusations that emergency workers still…
Read MoreWith Support From Google Disaster Corps
One of the most important aspects often not given enough attention after a disaster is how technology can be used to build our capacity to do to good. After the devastating earthquakes in Nepal this year, there was a great need to find creative ways to better provide for those in need and make information…
Read More“I have to do what has to be done”: Leslie Lumeh and the Fight for Liberia’s Cultural Heritage
By: Brooks Marmon and Jim Tuttle, Accountability Lab in Monrovia, Liberia. This blog post was originally published as an article in Images Magazine, Edition 16. A Leslie Lumeh has been proclaimed “Liberia’s most celebrated artist” by CNN. A product of Booker Washington Institute, the visual artist has received accolades from wide and afar, with his works presented at exhibitions in Cote d’Ivoire,…
Read MoreValidating Liberia’s Open Government Partnership National Action Plan
By: Meghan Schneider, Accountability Lab Liberia Summer Design Resident. This blog post was originally published by Open Government Partnership. On June 12, 2015 the Republic of Liberia convened a Stakeholders’ Interactive Forum to Validate the Open Government Partnership Action Plan at the Ministry of Information (MICAT). Participants included members of the OGP Steering Committee who came…
Read MoreBuilding the Next Generation of Responsible Athletes in Liberia
By: Sam Burnette III, who hails from a family of prominent Liberian footballers and is the Founder and CEO of the Liberia Football Foundation. This blog post was originally published by the Huffington Post. Building the Next Generation of Responsible Athletes in Liberia The concept of Sports for Development (S4D) is gaining prominence across the world,…
Read MoreIntegrity Gets Great Ratings
Integrity Gets Great Ratings How Nepalis harnessed the power of reality TV to strike a blow against corruption. BY BLAIR GLENCORSE, SUMAN PARAJULI. Originally published in Foreign Policy. To Gyan Mani Nepal, the newly appointed head of education in Panchthar, a small and beautiful corner of far eastern Nepal, the situation in his school district…
Read MoreIntroducing Accountability Lab’s Summer Fellows!
Accountability Lab is excited to welcome six talented interns to our teams in Liberia, Nepal and the US this summer! We are proud of the mission-driven actions plans, creative content and daily support these interns have contributed to the Lab. Because it can be challenging to visualize what accountability means in action, we’ve asked each of them to share…
Read MoreHow to Design a Battle Plan for Your Next Transparency Fight
By: Tania Sanchez, Open Government Guide Coordinator at Transparency and Accountability Initiative, [email protected]. Are you struggling to make government and public institutions in your country more transparent and accountable to citizens? If so, here’s a chance to improve your battle plan and tool up for the fight ahead. The Transparency and Accountability Initiative is constantly updating and expanding…
Read MoreLiberia’s Political Accountability Art
Liberia’s Political Accountability Art By Brooks Marmon, Accountability Lab in Monrovia, Liberia. Originally published in Okay Africa. (Photo from ‘Accountability Art: Liberia’s Quest for Integrity’ by Jim Tuttle. Click here to see full gallery of artwork.) An artistic culture is starting to resume in Liberia, with a number of African curio shops lining the road to Robertsfield…
Read MoreMy Four Open Government Takeaways from Tanzania
By: Francis Lansana, Accountability Lab Resident in Liberia. The blog post was originally published on the Open Government Partnership blog. This year’s Open Government Partnership regional meeting for Africa was held last month in Dar es Salaam, under the theme “Enhancing Accountability through Open Governance”. The meeting included over 300 participants from across government, the private…
Read MoreFrom the ground: Accountability Lab’s Nepal earthquake relief efforts
By: Emily Collins, Marketing and Communications Fellow at GlobalGiving. This blog post was originally published on GlobalGiving’s GlobalGoodness blog. For earthquake relief in Nepal, connection is key. Displaced Nepali citizens found themselves unable to connect with organizations to provide essential needs, like food, water, and medical aid. Accountability Lab is dedicated to making this connection possible.…
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