Accountability Lab is a global translocal network that makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. Our goal is a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives.
Accountability Lab is a global translocal network that makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. Our goal is a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives.
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Accountability Lab’s flagship training program for young change-makers to build sustainable, effective tools for change.
A global campaign powered by citizens in search of exemplary government officials.
A pioneering community feedback and dialogue platform to ensure accountability in the development process.
Supportive, impactful member networks and co-working spaces for small and big nonprofits.
A conscious music campaign supporting musicians who advocate for greater representation, participation and accountability.
Channelling civil society voices into high-level decision-making at the C20, G20, and the Open Government Partnership for stronger accountability and open government.
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🎙️ What does accountability look like 13 years in?
In this special AccountabiliTea episode, voices from across Accountability Lab’s global network reflect on learning, resilience, and what sustains accountability work today.
Featuring reflections from Blair Glencorse, ...Jean…
🎙️ What does accountability look like 13 years in? In this special AccountabiliTea episode, voices from across Accountability Lab’s global network reflect on learning, resilience, and what sustains accountability work today.
Featuring reflections from Blair Glencorse, Jean ...Scrimgeour, Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Erin Sines, Djitteye Doussouba Konaté, Habibou Diaou, Florencia Guerzovich, and Brian Malika
🎧 Listen here: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3cs6Ywz
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🎙️ What does accountability look like 13 years in? In this special AccountabiliTea episode, voices from across Accountability Lab’s global network reflect on learning, resilience, and what sustains accountability work today.
Featuring reflections from @blairglencorse, @jeanscrim, ...@cherileighe, Erin Sines, @doussouba_konate, @diaouhabibou, Florencia Guerzovich and Brian Malika.
🎧 Check out the links in our bio to listen to the episode.
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What if change doesn’t always mean reinventing the wheel? Sometimes, innovation is about seeing what’s already working and valuing it more intentionally.
Our Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Florencia Guerzovich, explores this idea in her recent blog, where she highlights the importance of ...the soft infrastructure and “invisible weavers”, the everyday actors and relationships that keep civic space and democracy alive.
Her key insights:
🔹 Soft infrastructure and invisible weavers matter just as much as formal coalitions.
🔹 They help bridge institutional systems with community realities.
🔹 What’s needed most is visibility and support so their work can grow and last.
👉 Read more via the link in bio!
#GovernanceSupport #AccountabilityLab
Does change always require something completely new? Maybe not. Sometimes, the most meaningful innovation comes from putting existing wisdom into practice with intention and that can be truly liberating.
In her latest blog, our Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Florencia Guerzovich, invites us ...to rethink how we support governance and civic space. Instead of relying only on technocratic prescriptions, she argues for valuing the connective, coalition-building work that keeps societies stitched together.
Florencia shares three insights on where governance support can go next:
The soft infrastructure and the people she calls “invisible weavers” are just as important as formal coalitions and movements. Their everyday contributions often go unnoticed, but they keep civic space alive.
These invisible weavers act in a bilingual infrastructure, helping translate between institutional systems and the lived realities of communities.
What this work needs most isn’t invention, but visibility and support by rebalancing portfolios and how we work so that relational work can sustain and scale.
👉 Read the full blog: https://bit.ly/4iYR7nn
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Rebalancing toward the relationships, translation work, and bilingual soft infrastructure that make democratic practice possible. Across...
accountabilitylab.org📍We're talking sustainable private sector AI adoption and ways to support groups of anti-corruption champions at CoSP 11 next week!
Our session with Development Gateway: An IREX Venture "Trustworthy AI ecosystems in the private sector" will be an interactive workshop. ...Participants from the private sector, government, academia, and civil society, will explore how scaling and benchmarking Al private sector anti-corruption solutions can create shared value when grounded in transparency, accountability, and collaboration. Rather than focusing on hype or technology for its own sake, the session will unpack the trust gap that often exists when it comes to digital systems for business integrity.
"Building the ecosystem against corruption" will explore the role of civil society, journalists and whistle-blowers in anti-corruption, how restrictions on these groups directly undermine UNCAC implementation and access to information and highlight strategies to protect civic space, and strengthen transparency and accountability.
📍We're talking sustainable private sector AI adoption and ways to support groups of anti-corruption champions at CoSP 11 next week – join us!
Our session with Development Gateway, "Trustworthy AI ecosystems in the private sector", will be an interactive workshop. ...Participants from the private sector, government, academia, and civil society, will explore how scaling and benchmarking Al private sector anti-corruption solutions can create shared value when grounded in transparency, accountability, and collaboration. Rather than focusing on hype or technology for its own sake, the session will unpack the trust gap that often exists when it comes to digital systems for business integrity.
"Building the ecosystem against corruption" will explore the role of civil society, journalists and whistle-blowers in anti-corruption, how restrictions on these groups directly undermine UNCAC implementation and access to information and highlight strategies to protect civic space, and strengthen transparency and accountability.
📢 Contribute to New Research on Independent Media
Independent researchers from Johns Hopkins University and @Cross-Pollinate Consulting Solutions are conducting a global study to understand how the recent termination of major US development assistance is affecting independent media ...around the world.
They are inviting insights from:
➡️ Media outlets and newsrooms
➡️ Journalists, bloggers, and content
➡️ Civil society groups working in or alongside the media
➡️ Organisations in countries where USAID or the US government previously supported
Note:
📌 You do not need to have received US funding to participate.
📌 They do ask for only one response per organisation.)
The survey is available in multiple languages, and all responses will remain confidential. Findings will inform a public report with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, helping donors and policymakers better understand evolving needs within the media ecosystem.
📝 Take the survey:
⚫ English: https://bit.ly/48SQwQE
⚫ Français: https://bit.ly/3Y6wQCL
⚫ Español: https://bit.ly/3MEl2Fg
⚫ Português: coming soon!
⚫ Українська: https://bit.ly/3Y9lYUI
⚫ Русский: https://bit.ly/3KHPL3J
⚫ العربية: https://bit.ly/3Kss2oc
For questions, you can contact the research team at: [email protected]
By sharing your perspectives, you’ll contribute to a clearer picture of the challenges facing independent media – and the opportunities to strengthen support in this space.
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📢 Contribute to New Research on Independent Media
Independent researchers from @JohnsHopkins and Cross-Pollinate Consulting Solutions, LLC are conducting a global study to understand how the recent termination of major US development assistance is affecting independent media…