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Pakistan celebrates its first Integrity Idol

In a corrupt country, the public vote for the most upstanding bureaucrat By: This article was originally published by Apolitical. There is no glitter or pop music, but Integrity Idol aims to do much more than choose a hit new boyband. The international competition puts on TV shows to find the most upstanding officials in countries with endemic corruption – Nepal, Pakistan, Liberia and Afghanistan among them – and hold them up as role models to encourage the rest. Run by the NGO Accountability Lab, it began in Nepal (read Apolitical’s interview with the first ever idol here) and has [...]

2017-03-09T00:00:00+00:009th March 2017|

5 Lessons Learned on Youth Involvement in the Accountability Movement

By: Anne Sophie Ranjbar, Associate Director Almost half of the global population is under the age of 25, so, as we try to create truly representative citizen engagement, youth must play a central role. At the GPSA's recent Global Partners Forum, we joined Save the Children and in leading a workshop on why and how youth are strategic stakeholders in social accountability efforts. In case you missed it, here are a few key insights gathered from our four years of working with youth on the ground: Youth are the key to changing culture and shifting norms. The only truly sustainable solution is to [...]

2016-06-06T00:00:00+00:006th June 2016|
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