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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 Launches 2020 Hunt for Integrity Icon

Accountability Lab has launched its 2020 hunt for Liberia's Integrity Icon. The ceremony took place recently in Monrovia. Integrity Icon, previously branded as Integrity Idol, has worked to showcase honest public servants in a country that perennially ranks at the bottom of corruption indices. It was launched in Liberia in 2015 and has so far honored 25 civil servants and public officials for being honest in their duties and helping to transform society. Since 2015, the organization says the program has continued to promote citizen engagement and demand for individual integrity to strengthen government-citizen relations in Liberia. Accountability Lab also [...]

2021-03-31T10:43:21+00:0031st March 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|

iCampus Launches Liberia Learning Awards 2020

Liberia Learning Awards 2020 has been launched in Monrovia, with more than thirty-five guests in attendance on January 22, 2020. As the first-of-its-kind development initiative to build a vibrant learning community, the learning awards program is an approach to share ideas around learning so that organizations can learn from each other about how they can effectively collect data and use the information for adaptation and improvement in their work. The program thus seeks to build on the nascent learning community, by developing a network of engaged, connected learning advocates from across government and civil society. Overseen by an expert panel [...]

2020-07-07T20:08:00+00:004th February 2020|

Liberian Hipco stars release Integrity Icon song

Two of the Liberian hipco music scene's biggest names, Amaze Yor and Beat Master, have collaborated with Accountability Lab to produce a song for our flagship Integrity Icon programme in Liberia. The two artists are currently Hipco Accountability Ambassadors who mentor other underground artists to create music for social change. Hipco is a genre of dance music that blends hip-hop, R&B and traditional Liberian music with lyrics in colloquial dialects spoken in Liberia. Amaze said he has always wanted to use music for social change and has been producing social change songs for six years now. Listen to the song [...]

2019-12-10T00:00:00+00:0010th December 2019|

New Podcast: Fiscal Transparency in Liberia

We sat down with a few of our Accountapreneurs in Monrovia, Liberia - inspiring social entrepreneurs who are participating in our incubator programme. Janet Kamara, of iCampus Liberia, unpacks the themes of fiscal governance and transparency in their work. Fiscal transparency in Monrovia  

2019-07-16T00:00:00+00:0016th July 2019|

Building Reel Peace in Liberia

At the Lab, we try to cultivate an innovative, agile environment where teams feel inspired to find new ways to address accountability challenges in their countries. In a small, flexible organization staffed by individuals who are mission-driven, it’s not uncommon to conceptualize programs that can be ambitious. We hope to succeed and deliver programming and results that make us proud, but along the line, it’s also important to reflect on challenges, and even failures, that come with ambitious projects. Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Global Director of Learning at the Lab, takes a closer look Over the last fifteen months, Accountability Lab Liberia [...]

2019-06-28T00:00:00+00:0028th June 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|
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