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Accountability Lab to Host Atlas Corps-CIPE Think Tank LINKS Fellow

Accountability Lab is pleased to announce that is has been selected as a host organization for the Think Tank LINKS (Leaders, Innovators, and Knowledge Sharing) Fellowship – a program run by Atlas Corps and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), with the support from the National Endowment for Democracy. This fellowship is an opportunity for talented young professionals from developing countries to shadow leading organizations in the U.S. for six months, beginning in January, and to conduct research in issues of democratic or economic reforms. In addition to hands-on experience working with and learning from the Accountability Lab in [...]

2013-10-03T00:00:00+00:003rd October 2013|

The Lab Receives Grant from the Case Foundation for Anti-Corruption Film Schools

At the Be Fearless NGen-Case Foundation event in New York City, Executive Director Blair Glencorse presented his idea for an anti-corruption film school for women and girls in Liberia. The proposed project would involve five-week, hands-on training sessions in Liberia’s two largest cities, Monrovia and Buchanan. The schools will build understanding of corruption, accountability and conflict issues, and provide the participants with the skills to direct, produce and edit short, low and no-budget documentaries about important problems in their communities. The project aims to empower women and girls, who in many ways are excluded, as a corrupt system skews access [...]

2013-10-01T00:00:00+00:001st October 2013|

Accountability Lab Hosts an Accountability Film Festival in Liberia

On Tuesday, Accountability Lab held Liberia’s first festival, showcasing five short but powerful documentaries created by students of the Lab’s recent 5-week accountability filmmaking training program. After an introduction by the Accountability Lab Liberia team, attendees were given the first public viewing of the five new Liberian documentaries: “Dark Sunlight” by Hashim Pabai; “The Future” by Dyfan Massaquoi; “Say it” by Dorcus Pewee; “The Desert Island” by Arthur Wahwehlee; and “Whose Job” by Morris Sherif. Each film depicted a different accountability issue commonly faced by Liberians: electricity shortages, child labor, sexual exploitation of women, and water and sanitation problems. These [...]

2013-09-19T00:00:00+00:0019th September 2013|

Rajneesh Receives Youth Action Fund Grant to Build Anti-Corruption Network

Nepali Accountapreneur Rajneesh Bhandari received a generous grant from Open Society Foundations’ Youth Action Fund for a project to build a network of investigative journalists to fight corruption in Nepal. The objective of the project, “A call to accountability: Voices of corruption fighters in Nepal,” is to use the Right to Information (RTI) Act to investigate, produce and promote five multimedia stories on corruption in various sectors in Nepal. These stories aim not only to inspire people, but also to provide them with the information they need to join the fight against corruption. Rajneesh will partner with the Accountability Lab [...]

2013-09-13T00:00:00+00:0013th September 2013|

The Lab Catalyzes Citizen Journalism in Liberia

This week the Accountability Lab launched its first online crowdfunding campaign to raise $3,000 in 30 days to support the work of “Accountapreneur” Alfred Sirleaf. Alfred is a Liberian citizen journalist who understood the hunger for information in his country. In response, he devised an innovative solution: the “Daily Talk,” a large chalk-billboard at one of the capital’s busiest road intersections- through which he curates and displays the most relevant and important news stories in a way that all can understand. The “Daily Talk” has been internationally recognized in the New York Times and Al Jazeera but no one has [...]

2013-08-21T00:00:00+00:0021st August 2013|

The Accountability Lab’s Work Selected by Transparency International as a 2012 “Game Changer”

The Accountability Lab’s work in higher education in Nepal and Liberia has been selected by Transparency International as a “Game Changer” and will be profiled at the 15th annual International Anti-Corruption Conference in Brazilia next week through the Game Changers Global Initiative. As stated on the website, the platform will “showcase anti-corruption game changing strategies, profile the game changers behind these initiatives and facilitate a global exchange of knowledge and experiences around four dimensions: Innovating and testing new ideas; Public Mobilisation; Support for victims and the witnesses of corruption; and Connecting the game changers with a global community of people [...]

2012-10-30T00:00:00+00:0030th October 2012|

The Accountability Lab Launches the Nepal Accountapreneurship Fund

The Accountability Lab launched a new support tool for Nepalis with innovative accountability ideas today. The Nepal “Accountapreneurship” Fund (NAF) will identify “accountapreneurs” (individuals, groups or organizations that demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach to accountability issues); provide catalytic grants to these accountapreneurs for small-scale, innovative and sustainable approaches to accountability and transparency; support effective implementation of ideas through training, mentoring, and networking; and ensure sustainability through connecting accountapreneurs to additional local and national funding sources. Seed grants of up to US$2,000 will be made to successful applicants- to be combined with 10% matching funds from the grant-winners themselves. An initial grant [...]

2012-10-05T00:00:00+00:005th October 2012|
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