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Participants express resolve to keep highlighting marginalized communities’ issues

“When civil society comes to work together it gives us hope that we have a constructive future ahead of us” Haris Qayyum, Senior Advisor, The Asia Foundation expressed this view while speaking at the closing ceremony of the ‘Celebrating Peace Together’ project here on Saturday. The ceremony was attended by senior government officials, civil society representatives, academia and media representatives. Programme Coordinator of The Asia Foundation, Farva Rashid said the project was launched by the Asia Foundation in 2018 in Punjab, KP and Sindh in collaboration with Bytes for All; Initiative for Sustainable Development; Legal Rights Foundation and the Accountability [...]

2022-11-10T06:46:18+00:0019th June 2022|

Can social entrepreneurs achieve community immunity against corruption? 

By Michael Seo  In the United States, we tend to think of corruption as the exception rather than the norm. However, in some of the most impoverished settings in frontier markets, the reality is different but so are the market dynamics as social entrepreneurship flourishes. So we ask, how can social entrepreneurs nudge markets toward transparency and integrity in contexts where ethical behaviour, transparency and governance are anomalies? The consequences of corruption are immense and indisputable. Inversely, so are the benefits of trustworthy systems. Research from the IMF, “The Cost of Corruption”, suggests that countries perceived to be less corrupt [...]

2020-10-02T07:47:12+00:001st October 2020|

Youth’s training session culminates

This article was originally published by the Daily News. A cohort of 20 youth from Sultanabad, Karachi was trained on social entrepreneurship skills to fight both the unemployment and civic challenges in their area. The training, imparted by the Accountability Lab in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan, focused on developing leadership, entrepreneurial, conflict management, and communication skills among the targeted youth. The training programme, spread over six months, besides training the selected youth on given topics, hand-holds them in developing their individual and collective civic projects that may promote transparency, accountability, and better governance in Sultanabad. [...]

2016-09-27T00:00:00+00:0027th September 2016|

Transparency International Announces Winners of the 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Initiative for West Africa

This article was originally published by Transparency International Secretariat. Alexise Ouedraogo, a TV journalist from Cote d’Ivoire, Victor Akinwande, a software developer from Nigeria, and Lawrence Yealue, a technology activist from Liberia have been chosen as the winners of Transparency International’s Social Entrepreneurs Initiative for West Africa competition, Transparency International said today. The Social Entrepreneurs’ Initiative is run by the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) within Transparency International with the aim of empowering young people to fight corruption in their own communities. This is the first time that it has been run in West Africa. Over 65 entries from young people [...]

2014-06-02T00:00:00+00:002nd June 2014|

Points of Light’s Civic Accelerator Launches its Spring 2014 Class – Invests in 14 Startups That Put People at Center of Change

This article was originally published by Points of Light, with founding support from PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. and Starbucks Foundation, and added support from Blackstone Charitable Foundation, SAP and official hotel sponsor Hilton Worldwide. The Points of Light’s Civic Accelerator – the first national startup accelerator dedicated solely to investing in civic ventures – announced today the 14 startups selected to participate in its spring 2014 program. This will be the fourth round of the Civic Accelerator since its founding in 2012. The ventures participating in the Civic Accelerator, which include for-profits, nonprofits and hybrids, all mobilize people to create positive change and [...]

2014-04-08T00:00:00+00:008th April 2014|
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