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Nominate YOUR South African #IntegrityIcon

Welcome! This is where you get to nominate a public servant you believe should be recognised in our Integrity Icon awards. From nurses to teachers, police officers and more: we want to name and fame the people who are getting it right in South Africa's public sector. Fill in the form below to get your suggestion in. Nominations close at the end of July, so be sure to share this link with family and friends. Let's start raising up examples of excellence in the public service! Loading…  

2020-07-07T23:14:27+00:0014th May 2020|

AL NEPAL ANNUAL REPORT RELEASED

2019 was a particularly busy year for AL Nepal as they crowned their latest set of Integrity Icons at a ceremony in Kathmandu following a successful national campaign involving 75 districts and 500 volunteers, who collected over 1,000 nominations. They continued to support the work of their previous Icons and expand the reach of our vision of integrity through the Integrity School, Fellowship and the Summits we hosted across the country. Their Civic Action Teams (formerly Citizen Helpdesks) are turning into a movement through which 500+ open government champions have joined them to close the feedback loop between citizens and [...]

2020-04-23T00:00:00+00:0023rd April 2020|

‘Integrity Should Be Center of Our Education’

LRA Assist. Commissioner Jlateh asserts Integrity should be at the center of everyone’s education to promote change in the mindset of Liberians in order to succeed in nation-building, The Assistant Commissioner for Budget and Finance at the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) Mr. Ord-Siejepo Jlateh has recommended. Commissioner Jlateh who served as the keynote speaker at the launch of the 2020 Integrity Icon held at the office of Accountability Lab in Monrovia, observed that some individuals have the mindset of not waiting for their time but want quick money. As a result, they enter into a career far from what they [...]

2020-07-07T19:48:16+00:0019th March 2020|

Who Is Philly’s Integrity Icon?

We're running Integrity Icon Philadelphia in partnership with a number of Philly-based organizations including The Philadelphia Citizen, an innovative non-profit media outlet that combines solutions-oriented journalism with specific calls for civic action. The Citizen’s Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy lays out our shared vision for how Integrity Icon can celebrate and encourage the best of Philadelphia’s public service below. Talk to anyone who has dealings with the City, and you’ll hear a lot about city workers. Bureaucrats, inefficient, tied by unnecessary rules, political appointees who clock in, do the minimum needed, and then clock out. You know, city workers. But you’ll also, [...]

2020-06-01T08:49:51+00:0013th March 2020|

LOVE A TEACHER?

If you know an exemplary teacher in Philadelphia, help us and our partners The Philadelphia Citizen, SEAMAAC, WURD Radio and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey give them the recognition they deserve by nominating them for Integrity Icon Philadelphia. Talk to any parent in Philadelphia, and you’re bound, eventually, to get to the topic that’s always top of mind for those raising children in the city: schools. Talk to them long enough to get past the usual worries and you’ll likely find yourself hearing something beautiful and perhaps (to those looking on from the outside) surprising: That [...]

2020-07-07T19:54:15+00:0013th March 2020|

Why We’re Excited to be Partnering With the Building Integrity Programme

In exciting news, Accountability Lab recently agreed to partner closely with the Building Integrity Programme (hosted at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford). During our recent strategy process, we realized that we want to get better at understanding the evidence base for our work to support accountability; and to better match theory with practice. Our partnership with the Building Integrity Programme will help us do this in three key ways at the outset. By Blair Glencorse First, through a research program looking at how integrity can be supported within public institutions around the world. This will [...]

2020-07-07T20:10:02+00:0013th February 2020|

Policeman Named 2019 #IntegrityIcon Winner After Rejecting N6m Bribe

CSP Erhabor was appointed as the Pipeline Commander by the PPMC with an allowance of N37, 500. In 2019 he was approached and offered N6m to beat the system but he refused. CSP Francis Erhabor, Divisional Police Officer of Itam, Akwa Ibom State, who rejected a N6m bribe has been named as winner of 2019 Integrity Icon award. The Integrity Icon Summit and Award organised by Accountability Lab in partnership with Luminate, MacArthur and Ford Foundation, is a global campaign powered by citizens in search of honest government officials. CSP Erhabor was nominated alongside four other finalists for the award. [...]

2020-01-24T00:00:00+00:0024th January 2020|

Corruption: Why ‘bad guys’ get more media coverage — Editor

The Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed, on Monday said the activities of honest Nigerians go largely unnoticed and unrewarded due to the corrupt acts of others which the media prefer to publicise more. He said this on Monday in Abuja during a panel discussion at the Integrity Icon Summit and Awards, organised by Accountabilitylab in partnership with Luminate, Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation. The event tagged “Integrity Icon Summit and Awards” was organised to celebrate government officials who have showcased credible character, accountability and integrity in the discharge of their responsibilities. “Let’s be frank, when you look through the media, [...]

2020-01-24T00:00:00+00:0024th January 2020|

Catching People “Doing the Right Thing” in Mexico with the Bosch Alumni Network!

A few years ago, the Accountability Lab began a campaign called Integrity Icon. We were fed up with the constant stream of bad news around issues of corruption- that endlessly focused on the problem and the wrong-doers, without offering any solutions. Integrity Icon flips that narrative- by “naming and faming” honest government officials and celebrating them very publicly in a way that can lift up these role-models, rebuild trust and give citizens hope for a better future. The campaign has led to some fantastic results around the world- the public credibility that it provides along with the Lab’s ongoing guidance has allowed the [...]

2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:0015th January 2020|

Policeman, NAFDAC Official, Teacher Make Integrity Icons Shortlist

The award is a global campaign by Accountability Lab powered by citizens in search of honest government officials. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK – JAN 09, 2020 A policeman, CSP Francis Erhabor, has been shortlisted among five Nigerians as 2019 Integrity Icons. The award is a global campaign by Accountability Lab powered by citizens in search of honest government officials. The other four finalists include Tani Ali Nimlan, an official of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control; Tina Odinakachi Lirmdu, a lecturer at the University of Jos, Plateau State; Kacheilom Betram Roberts-Ndukwe, a teacher in a secondary school in Port Harcourt, [...]

2020-01-12T00:00:00+00:0012th January 2020|
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