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Funke Adeoye and her access to justice mission in Nigeria

Oluwafunke Adeoye, or Funke as everyone calls her, is a lawyer, human rights defender, social innovator, young global leader, and proud Accountapreneur. She is Hope Behind Bars Africa’s Founder and Executive Director. It's an organization that promotes human rights and criminal justice reforms using legal aid, research, evidence-based advocacy, and technology. Funke has led interventions that amplified the work of grassroots advocates across sub-Saharan Africa and saved hundreds of indigent pre-trial detainees. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow and an Acumen West Africa Fellow, winning the 2023 Global Citizen Prize last year. This year saw her also being admitted to [...]

2024-10-04T15:47:25+00:0011th August 2024|

Why climate finance needs greater transparency and accountability

We face an existential poly-crisis related to energy, debt, food, climate, health, and security. Collective action is needed to address these challenges and to build global support for the green accountability agenda. The role of international financial institutions (IFIs) like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is critical to promoting transparency in climate finance and addressing the inherent corruption risks. But the quantity of their funding is just one element of this- the quality of that funding is equally as important but is largely missing from policy debates around these issues.  Progress Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) have [...]

2023-08-14T12:10:39+00:001st August 2023|

Ukraine Shows Why the G20 Anti-Corruption Agenda Is More Important than Ever

By Blair Glencorse and Sanjeeta Pant The world has quickly transitioned from a global health crisis to a geopolitical one, as the war in Ukraine rages into its second month. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just the latest in a long list of challenges that at their heart are either caused by or exacerbated by corruption. Just this year, think of the protests in Sudan, the coup in Burkina Faso, the nationwide demonstrations in Kazakhstan, or the Portuguese elections, for example- all driven, one way or another, by graft. While G20 countries have made progress within their national borders, there are often lax laws [...]

2022-04-08T07:25:46+00:0025th March 2022|

Recap of SSIR’s 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference

By SSIR Editors The 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference: “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future” featured senior leaders of nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, academia, business, and government addressing how the social innovation community can respond to a world struggling with a global pandemic, continued racial injustices, and assaults on democracy. SSIR's editors recapped the virtual conference and assembled a list of articles related to the sessions. Session 1: Systems Work Is Not a Thought Experiment, It’s a Continual Practice Francois Bonnici of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Cynthia Rayner of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, René Parker of RLabs, [...]

2021-06-04T09:20:23+00:004th June 2021|

Accountability Lab Directors at the UN General Assembly

New York, September 23 – Accountability Lab is pleased to announce the involvement of two of its directors at the 74th United Nations General Assembly this week. The Lab’s Executive Director Blair Glencorse will speak at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action Zone at the UN headquarters on Wednesday, September 25, about the global impact of our public engagement campaign, Integrity Icon. Blair will address the importance of reframing the debate around corruption – especially in countries where graft is endemic – and how the campaign has managed to engage communities in processes that strengthen governance in South Asia, and [...]

2019-09-24T00:00:00+00:0024th September 2019|

Accountability Lab Executive Director Appointed to World Bank Advisory Council

Washington DC, August 8 - Accountability Lab is pleased to announce the appointment of its Executive Director, Blair Glencorse, to the World Bank’s Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement. Blair joins Mai E’leimat, Co-founder of the Al Hayat Center for Civil Society Development in Jordan, as the two civil society members on the new advisory council. The new members begin their three-year term on September 1. A statement from the Bank acknowledged the critical role played by citizens in “advocating and helping to make public institutions more transparent, accountable and effective” and in contributing “innovative solutions to complex development challenges”. [...]

2019-08-08T00:00:00+00:008th August 2019|

Access to justice in Liberia (podcast)

Accountability Lab Executive Director Blair Glencorse talks to John Kamma from the Citizens' Bureau about the challenges within the country's desperately under-resourced justice sector. Kamma facilitates the Lab's Community Justice Teams in the country and has so far resolved 400 cases through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

2019-06-21T00:00:00+00:0021st June 2019|

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL. SMALL IS ALSO, ER, SMALL.

This post was originally published by the Nonprofit Chronicles. By Marc Gunther The global south is littered, literally, with the remains of failed international aid projects. So-called clean cookstoves had more appeal to western donors than to women in India, Africa or Latin America. Wells and taps that were intended to provide clean water have fallen into disrepair. One 2009 study estimated there are 50,000 broken rural water points across Africa that represents a failed investment of US $215-360 million. Oops. It’s easy to understand how this happens. If a nonprofit provides cookstoves or water taps or chickens or books, that’s what it will give poor [...]

2017-07-10T00:00:00+00:0010th July 2017|

Understanding how to learn in Liberia

By Heather Gilberds and Blair Glencorse This blog was originally published by Making All Voices Count. Recently, we concluded a Making All Voices Count Practitioner Research and Learning grant, focusing on the dynamics, process and outcomes of building accountability with young people in Liberia. The research generated some useful insights – as we’ve written about previously – including the need to make governance changes meaningful for citizens; the importance of a collective, eco-systems-building approach; and the opportunities that exist around more creative, and less institutionalised, governance programmes. The research involved a survey of over 1,000 citizens in four of Liberia’s 15 counties, [...]

2017-07-07T00:00:00+00:007th July 2017|

2017 American Express Leadership Award Finalists

This announcement was first published by the Independent Sector.   Independent Sector is proud to announce the five finalists for the 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award: Sarah Eagle Heart, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy Blair Glencorse, Executive Director of Accountability Lab Cesar Gonzalez, CEO of StartingBloc Laura Weidman Powers, Co-founder and CEO of Code2040 Ginger Zielinskie, President & CEO of Benefits Data Trust Each year, the American Express NGen Leadership Award is presented to one highly accomplished charitable community leader, age 40 or under, who has already demonstrated significant impact in addressing society’s critical needs. This year’s awardee will [...]

2017-06-29T00:00:00+00:0029th June 2017|
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