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Accountability Lab to Host Atlas Corps-CIPE Think Tank LINKS Fellow
Accountability Lab is pleased to announce that is has been selected as a host organization for the Think Tank LINKS (Leaders, Innovators, and Knowledge Sharing) Fellowship – a program run by Atlas Corps and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), with the support from the National Endowment for Democracy. This fellowship is an opportunity…
Read MoreThe Lab Receives Grant from the Case Foundation for Anti-Corruption Film Schools
At the Be Fearless NGen-Case Foundation event in New York City, Executive Director Blair Glencorse presented his idea for an anti-corruption film school for women and girls in Liberia. The proposed project would involve five-week, hands-on training sessions in Liberia’s two largest cities, Monrovia and Buchanan. The schools will build understanding of corruption, accountability and…
Read Morenepal and liberia: diverse contexts, shared lessons
By: Blair Glencorse. This article was originally published in Beed Life magazine. In June 2007, I took a trip to Nepalgunj to meet representatives of the Madhesi community. I wanted to try and understand more about political dynamics in the Tarai. While sipping chia, the groups I chatted with explained vociferously, often for hours at…
Read MoreAccountability Lab Hosts an Accountability Film Festival in Liberia
On Tuesday, Accountability Lab held Liberia’s first festival, showcasing five short but powerful documentaries created by students of the Lab’s recent 5-week accountability filmmaking training program. After an introduction by the Accountability Lab Liberia team, attendees were given the first public viewing of the five new Liberian documentaries: “Dark Sunlight” by Hashim Pabai; “The Future”…
Read MoreRajneesh Receives Youth Action Fund Grant to Build Anti-Corruption Network
Nepali Accountapreneur Rajneesh Bhandari received a generous grant from Open Society Foundations’ Youth Action Fund for a project to build a network of investigative journalists to fight corruption in Nepal. The objective of the project, “A call to accountability: Voices of corruption fighters in Nepal,” is to use the Right to Information (RTI) Act to…
Read MoreThe Lab Conducts Accountability Training at the US Embassy in Kathmandu
Accountability Lab’s Nepal Country Representative, Narayan Adhikari, was recently invited to conduct a training session on “ The Pathway to Accountability – The Role of a Game Changer” at the US Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop was attended by 5 embassy staff members and 28 youth activists, representing a variety of youth organizations including…
Read MoreThe Lab Catalyzes Citizen Journalism in Liberia
This week the Accountability Lab launched its first online crowdfunding campaign to raise $3,000 in 30 days to support the work of “Accountapreneur” Alfred Sirleaf. Alfred is a Liberian citizen journalist who understood the hunger for information in his country. In response, he devised an innovative solution: the “Daily Talk,” a large chalk-billboard at one…
Read MoreA decade of aid dependence in Liberia
By: Blair Glencorse. This article was originally published by Devex. A decade ago, the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended 14 years of civil war in Liberia. Under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — the first female head of state in Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 — much progress has been made.…
Read MoreTesting new tools for accountability in higher education
By: Blair Glencorse. This article was originally published in Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Report: Education (Section 4.14). The international community has rarely engaged coherently on issues of corruption within higher education, focusing instead on issues such as building teachers’ capacity, infrastructure development and programmes to increase access. The learning to be garnered from testing…
Read MoreThe Accountability Lab’s Work Selected by Transparency International as a 2012 “Game Changer”
The Accountability Lab’s work in higher education in Nepal and Liberia has been selected by Transparency International as a “Game Changer” and will be profiled at the 15th annual International Anti-Corruption Conference in Brazilia next week through the Game Changers Global Initiative. As stated on the website, the platform will “showcase anti-corruption game changing strategies,…
Read MoreThe Accountability Lab Launches the Nepal Accountapreneurship Fund
The Accountability Lab launched a new support tool for Nepalis with innovative accountability ideas today. The Nepal “Accountapreneurship” Fund (NAF) will identify “accountapreneurs” (individuals, groups or organizations that demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach to accountability issues); provide catalytic grants to these accountapreneurs for small-scale, innovative and sustainable approaches to accountability and transparency; support effective implementation of…
Read MoreBlair Glencorse named as a “Top 99 Under 33” Foreign Policy Leader
Blair Glencorse, Founder and Executive Director of the Accountability Lab, was named today as a “Top 99 Under 33” Foreign Policy Leader by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and The Diplomatic Courier, a global affairs magazine. As described on the website the list is “a special project that captures the extraordinary impact on international affairs…
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