Sustainability is an Accountability Issue

Mujidah Ajibola Oladejo is the Founder of environmental advocacy organization The Sustainability Hub and a new addition to our group of accountapreneurs with Accountability Lab Nigeria. Kibo Ngowi spoke to her to find out how her journey as a sustainability advocate began and what she hopes to achieve with the support of Accountability Lab Nigeria’s Incubator Program. Mujidah’s passion for sustainability began eight years ago on what seemed like an ordinary day in Lagos. On this occasion Mujidah and her four-year old son Jubril left her parents’ house in Ibadan and drove to Lagos to pick up her elder sister [...]

2020-07-31T11:42:14+00:006th April 2020|

Beyond Protest: Harnessing People Power for the New Decade

Shaazka Beyerle is a Senior Research Advisor in the Program on Nonviolent Action at the United States Institute of Peace and a Senior Advisor with ICNC. Here, she writes about what research conducted by her and her colleagues has revealed about the power of non-violent protest in social movements that have recognised the systemic nature of corruption and began demanding greater accountability from the system as a whole. 2019 is being called the year of protest. Citizens across the globe are galvanizing, in large part over the nexus of corruption, inequality, and a sense that governments and political elites are [...]

2019-12-10T00:00:00+00:0010th December 2019|

ONE-Accountability Lab Partner with Trace Africa to Launch 2019 Accountability Music Awards

As the world commemorates International Anti-Corruption Day, ONE and Accountability Lab have partnered with continental Pop giants, Trace Africa, to launch the 2019 Accountability Music Awards. The awards celebrate the African musicians who use their voice to call for more transparency and accountability in Africa. Viewers on Trace Naija, Trace Urban and Trace Afrique, will be able to vote for their favourite song focused on the fight against corruption in our communities. African citizens consistently place corruption amongst their top concerns, and report having lost faith in many key institutions, including legislatures, police, courts, and national electoral commissions. According to [...]

2019-12-09T00:00:00+00:009th December 2019|

Voice2Rep Launches Second Edition in Abuja

Abuja, October 3 – Voice to Represent (“Voice2Rep”) - Nigeria’s flagship campaign to identify, support and connect young talented artists to increase civic awareness through music and advocate for greater accountability, equality and democracy in Nigeria - officially commences its 2019/2020 edition today. The campaign, currently in its second year, is a project of Accountability Lab Nigeria, sponsored by the Embassy of the Netherlands and Luminate group, with support from Chocolate City Music group and Don’t Drop The Mic Entertainment. The campaign’s second edition is themed “Women's Rights” and will be geared towards enlisting talented aspiring young musicians to use [...]

2019-10-03T00:00:00+00:003rd October 2019|

Building an eco-system: why it matters

By Ory Okolloh A few months ago, we (Luminate) gathered our Nigeria-based investees in Lagos for two and a half days of learning, connecting, and networking.  We are increasingly focused on how we can support organisations we fund to build their “inner muscle” as it were in order to not just continue to be impactful but to be around for the long run, especially in an environment where they face multiple challenges from a shrinking civic space in which to do their work to a growing to-do list to limited funding options to the fatigue that comes along with the daily [...]

2019-09-10T00:00:00+00:0010th September 2019|

iCampus Hosts Film Festival on Electoral Reform Issues

By Foday Sesay MONROVIA, 3 September – As the dialogue on electoral reform resonates with Liberians, iCampus has streamed three short films focusing on three key electoral reform issues. The films focused on issues such as the tenure of elected public officials, women in leadership, and the current date of election. It was supported by the Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative’s electoral reform initiative, sponsored by USAID. iCampus is a shared co-working and community space for organizations working on technology, accountability, and social change in the country. The organization’s learning and communications manager who was also lead producer of the films, [...]

2019-09-03T00:00:00+00:003rd September 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|
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