Posts by Tirelo Makwela
Accountability Lab Liberia Wants Citizens To Get Involved in Nominating this Year’s Integrity Icon
Accountability Lab Liberia has launched an eight month campaign process that begins with the nominations of public servants across the country through a rigorous vetting process. Making the disclosure at the office on Carey Street, the Country Director of Accountability Lab Liberia Lawrence Yealue said there are more good people in Liberia than bad people…
Read MoreBusiness integrity during COVID-19: How to build integrity and trust within businesses during pandemic?
By Bakhtawar Khalid In the light of recent hoarding and price manipulation scandals, the business industry has developed a reputation for its lack of ethics. In an industry where getting ahead and making money appears to take precedence over ethical decision-making, it can be difficult to understand the importance of ethical behavior in business. Lack of…
Read MoreAn assessment of current policy advocacy tools used by chambers of commerce in Pakistan
By Nida Qasim Khan Context: Accountability Lab Pakistan has worked with chambers of commerce in its recent Business Accountability Bootcamps, and in the process has gathered some insights into how they operate. Some of the key findings made were that they lack the advocacy tools that are required of a chamber of commerce, such as proper…
Read MoreHow can business startups build policy influence in Pakistan?
By Nida Qasim Khan General overview of the Pakistani start-up ecosystem According to the Pakistan Startup Ecosystem Report 2019, business start-up activity increased significantly between 2012 and 2019. In 2012, there were only two major incubators and no notable funding sources or investors. However, 2019 saw an increase of 24 major incubators/accelerators, 20 formal investors/ funding…
Read MoreMaking most out of a chamber membership – revisiting advocacy & policy work of chambers of commerce in Pakistan
By Qazi Kabir Ahmed Hashmi Context: Accountability Lab conducted Business Accountability Bootcamps across four cities in the month of October, and hosted 95 entrepreneurs from all over Pakistan, to encourage them in the direction of ethical and sustainable business practices. We covered several key points in these bootcamps including the benefits of ethical business via case…
Read MoreCivil Servants Conferred Award Due To Work Excellence, Integrity
The Integrity Icon Pakistan on Tuesday conferred awards to Pakistani civil servants in recognition of their work excellence, integrity and honesty in respective categories. Amna Baig, ASP at Frontier Constabulary Lines in Islamabad; Daryan Khatoon, Principal of the Government Girls Lower Secondary school in Sukkur, Sindh; Mukhtar Paras, Director General of the Secretariat Training Institute…
Read MoreIntegrity Icon Philly Awards Ceremony
We celebrated the public servants named the first-ever heroes of high integrity in Philly—and the country. See why they are role models for all of us. BY JESSICA BLATT PRESS What is Integrity? To the five local heroes we honored on Friday night as the first-ever Integrity Icons in Philadelphia—and the country—it means many things, all of…
Read MoreSSUET inks MoU with Accountability Lab
The Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET) and Accountability Lab inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) earlier this week to execute capacity-building initiatives to engage faculty and students to develop their various skills including critical thinking, civic engagement, responsible leadership, empathy and conflict management. The SSUET will provide its infrastructure for carrying out…
Read MoreRap2Rep Liberia changes name to Voice2Rep
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monrovia, February 1 2021 – Accountability Lab Liberia, a nonprofit institution that makes governance work for people, announced today that it has changed the name of its Rap2Rep conscious music campaign to Voice2Rep. The name change reflects the different genres of music that we’ve started attracting in our call for applications, which include…
Read MoreAccountability Lab Liberia Unveils 2020 Integrity Icons
The Accountability Lab Liberia, a non-profit organization working in the field of active citizenship and good governance has selected five persons from the education, security, health, anti-corruption, and infrastructure development sector as Integrity Icons for 2020. After a rigorous sorting process, the top five finalists were selected from 30 nominations by a team of judges…
Read MoreConoce a los ganadores de la distinción “Íconos de Integridad” edición Sustentabilidad
Tras evaluar 43 perfiles de servidores públicos nominados en la iniciativa “Integrity Icon Sustentabilidad”, cinco fueron los ganadores de tal reconocimiento. “Integrity Icon”, campaña global de Accountability Lab, es impulsada por ciudadanos en busca de funcionarios gubernamentales honestos. En 2020 se desarrolló por primera ocasión en México en su versión “Sustentabilidad” con el apoyo de…
Read MoreLanzan campaña para premiar a funcionarios que realicen acciones sustentables
Integrity Icon Mexico de Accountability Lab, en unión con las organizaciones civiles Reforestamos Mexico y Causa Natura, lanzaron Sustentabilidad 2020 con la finalidad de reconocer a los funcionarios públicos que realicen acciones sustentables en el país. Durante un seminario web, la directora de AL en Mexico, Eva Sander, informó que la iniciativa busca premiar a…
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