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Accountability Lab awards 2 Liberian artists

Accountability Lab has awarded two Liberian artists for winning its Rap2Rep musical campaign. Ms. Hellen Smith emerged as winner of the campaign, receiving a grand prize of US$ 300, while Andrew Horton came second, taking away US$ 200 at the award ceremony held on July 17, 2020, on Carey Street, Monrovia. By Lewis S. Teh Ms. Janet M. Kamara said Rap2Rep is a campaign that is held under the auspices of Accountability Lab since 2015, basically using music as a tool for social change. For the past four years the campaign has built an accountability hipco network that includes musicians [...]

2020-07-20T10:51:37+00:0020th July 2020|

Governments need to build trust

The Country Director of Accountability Lab, Lawrence Yealue has observed that the Government of Liberia is not building trust among the population, something he said is responsible for violation of health protocols announced. “One of the reasons why we see Relight, and Duala market dwellers continue to don’t care for health measures and mandate to observe social distance is due to lack of trust from their government”, he noted. Speaking recently in Monrovia during a one day forum, Mr. Yealue wondered how government was coordination its information, saying, is the government using relevant facts to dispel rumors? He said Accountability [...]

2020-07-08T13:40:57+00:008th July 2020|

Accountability Lab Challenges Government to be Transparent in COVID-19 Fight

Monrovia, Liberia: Civil Society group, Accountability Lab is urging stakeholders fighting killer virus Corona, to consider accountability and transparency as key pillows in the national effort. Accountability Lab Country Director Lawrence Yealue suggested that the procurement process and beneficial ownership associated with the fight, need to be opened because according to him, Liberia is a signatory to the global open governance initiatives. He stressed that there are several missteps because of what he calls a lack of information accountability. Speaking in a KMTV exclusive Tuesday interview Mr. Yealue is quoted as saying, “Messages are not clear for consumption which is [...]

2020-05-03T00:00:00+00:003rd May 2020|

Countering corruption and closing civic space during the coronavirus

Accountability Lab hosted a session on countering corruption and closing civic space during the coronavirus in partnership with the B-team. AL Director Blair Glencorse moderated the discussions and three of our Country Directors - Odeh Friday (Nigeria), Eva Sander (Mexico) and Fayyaz Yaseen (Pakistan) participated as panelists, along with Annabel Lee Hogg of the B-Team. The session was part of a week-long series of online learning & networking exploring the theme of "Collective Strength" organized by The Skoll Foundation. Corruption costs $500 billion a year in the health sector and countless billions more in sectors related to the coronavirus crisis like water and [...]

2020-03-31T00:00:00+00:0031st March 2020|

What the fight against Ebola can teach us about beating the coronavirus

AL Director Blair Glencorse shares some very useful lessons in the Washington Post from Liberia’s Ebola crisis as the world grapples with the Corona Outbreak. Trusted voices and some strong coordinating efforts may be able to contain it. “We are monitoring everybody that comes in and out of our community, and if we don’t know them we track them carefully and take their temperature,” said Kou Gbaintor-Johnson, a local activist in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, as she showed me a clipboard with the names and telephone numbers of people who had entered her neighborhood. She explained that she and other [...]

2020-07-07T19:53:10+00:0013th March 2020|
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