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Nepal’s Accountability Incubator 2020 Cohort

Accountability Lab Nepal has selected four accountapreneurs for the 2020 cohort of their Accountability Incubator program. They're looking at projects spanning women empowerment and citizen engagement. Sumi Limbu is a Graduate student of Arts and Social Work, a compassionate learner, an activist who believes in the power of change and equality, and a lover of poetry and storytelling. She is one of the leader/changemakers of EmpoweHER 2018 (idea incubation leadership program initiated by Ujyalo Foundation) where her idea "SAKHI", an awareness campaign about menstruation through comic books, received seed funding. She strongly believes that through education and working from the [...]

2020-07-08T00:15:44+00:002nd March 2020|

Digital innovation for social change

AL Nepal accountapreneur, Surendra Koirala, explains how the apps he’s developing as an ‘accountability entrepreneur’ are impacting civic engagement. Interview by Cheri-Leigh Erasmus Surendra Koirala (26) says he was 19-years-old when he started thinking about how to use technology - a topic he’s long been passionate about - to solve some of the worrying social problems in Nepal. A keen technology student and enthusiast, he knew there was a way that tech tools could be used to bridge damaging communication gaps between government officers and the public. “I feel strongly attached to my Nepali identity and the need to take [...]

2020-07-07T20:07:21+00:0019th February 2020|

Community Building with Frontier Incubators

Accountability Lab Pakistan is an initiative to support youth, civil society activists and social entrepreneurs working around promoting transparency, accountability and responsible citizenship. Through this bottom-up approach, our work supports these leaders to create social awareness, transparency and responsibility among the citizens of Pakistan.  The Lab’s Accountability Incubator was thrilled to be selected as one of the participants of the Frontier Incubators virtual cohort for 2019, an Australian Aid initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s innovationXchange. A total of twelve organisations from all over the Asia-Pacific region were selected to participate in the virtual component of the [...]

2022-11-10T06:46:29+00:0021st October 2019|

Accountability Incubator Impact Report 2019 – Pakistan

The 2019 Accountability Incubator Impact Report for Pakistan is based on data collected from exit interviews conducted in March 2019 with accountapreneurs from both program cohorts in 2016 and 2017. Data was also collated from an impact survey conducted with both the 2018 and 2019 cohorts in July 2019. Out of 12 alumni, 6 people participated in our Exit interviews with a further 6 accountapreneneurs participating in our impact survey. The Accountability Incubator is a training and support program for young civil society leaders who have creative ideas for promoting accountability in their communities. Each year, Accountability Lab selects “accountapreneurs” [...]

2022-11-10T06:46:27+00:0021st October 2019|

Speaking Truth to Power in Punjab Province

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Yet there isn’t much sunlight being thrown on local government in Pakistan. The major media outlets focus their coverage on national politics or the big cities. As a result, people in rural areas lack a crucial lever to hold their local officials to account.  Enter the news site tumbhibolo, which launched an Urdu service in the fall of 2016 with the support of the Accountability Lab. The site recruits young people to cover local issues in three districts of Punjab province that are largely ignored by the national media. The goal: to equip citizens to speak [...]

2018-06-25T00:00:00+00:0025th June 2018|

Visible Impact in Kharanitar, Nepal

By: Medha Sharma, Accountability Lab Accountapreneur and President of Visible Impact Meet Rita Rita is 16 years old and black belt in Taekwondo. She discovered her passion for Taekwondo when she was 8 years old. Almost 2 years ago, an earthquake destroyed her village – Kharanitar of Nepal's Nuwakot district - and Rita and the other girls in her village had to give up their Taekwondo lessons.  Since last year, Visible Impact has been working to unleash the social and economic leadership of 15 adolescent girls of her village, by providing them mentorship on a variety of topics, including academic support, support for co-curricular activities, [...]

2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:0027th December 2016|

Intern 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 and the release of the movie Sultan, a few like-minded people working in the social sector put aside their daily tasks and gathered in cafe in Lazimpath. The gathering was the second session of the Accountability Incubator, a flagship program of Accountability Lab, where the [...]

2016-08-12T00:00:00+00:0012th August 2016|
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