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Incubating ideas: Students to be trained on becoming better citizens

This article was originally published by The Express Tribune. Accountability Lab has launched a training programme on peace incubator social entrepreneurship and innovation at Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA). The international organisation aims to train and mentor local change makers to strengthen systems of accountability and unleash a positive social and economic change. Under the programme, 50 students have been selected in first phase while 25 students will be selected in  the second phase for training. Started as a pilot project, the two organisations will engage and train at least three cohorts of 25 students each and at [...]

2016-11-17T00:00:00+00:0017th November 2016|

Crowdfunding development aid would direct funds where they are needed most

Websites such as GlobalGiving and Kickstarter have re-imagined the way we support issues we care about. Can we do the same for aid programmes? By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director at Accountability Lab. This article was originally published by The Guardian. Watermelon seeds are readied for planting as part of an aid project in Rwanda. ‘There is a disconnect between the providers of development aid and its recipients.’ Photograph: Sam Faulkner/Comic Relief/Dfid As world leaders descend on New York this week for the UN general assembly, the funding of international development programmes will be high on the agenda – [...]

2016-09-13T00:00:00+00:0013th September 2016|
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