🎙️ NGOs are central to accountability, but they face major obstacles. In Episode 2 of our ...'Beyond the Frameworks' series, Michele Crymes speaks with Try Thy (Open Development Cambodia) about the difficulties NGOs encounter in Cambodia, including:

📍Limited access to company and government data
📍Building trust with private sector actors
📍Operating with constrained funding

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🎙️ Sustainable accountability requires sustainable support. In Episode 2 of our 'Beyond ...the Frameworks' series, Try Thy (Open Development Cambodia) explains why unrestricted funding is vital to strengthening NGO governance and institutions. Hosted by Michele Crymes, this episode explores how NGOs maintain independence while driving transparency in Cambodia’s private sector.

🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or our website:
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🔗 Website: accountabilitylab.org

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🚀 Equalizing Access to Public Procurement

"It’s up to us young people to stand ...up and say “I can do something about it” and it’s up to the community and society to say “How can we support you to bring that to life?”

Eliud Luutsa and team is working to create a world where the exclusive circles of opportunity are broken open.

Through Innobid, they want to make public procurement more accessible, transparent, and fair, while also providing especially young entrepreneurs.

👓 Here's how they're doing it: https://bit.ly/4nDR4ys

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Ending Favoritism in Tenders: How Innobid Levels the Playing Field for Entrepreneurs | Accountability Lab

Innobid wants to make public procurement more accessible, transparent, and fair. The platform is for those putting out tenders, bidding for tenders,...

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Countries will be facing increasing threats of "hybrid repression" in the months ahead, ...with elements within law, tech, and economics combining their efforts to undermine democracy. In order to tackle this, we need to invest in coalitions and distributed campaigns that are more resilient to crackdowns.

This was one of the key messages from AL Co-CEO Blair Glencorse at the International Democracy Day #Brussels Conference today. #IDD Brussels is an annual event that gathers leading voices in democracy, governance, and civic engagement.

"Authoritarian playbooks now combine restrictive laws, platform manipulation, and financial/contract pressure. In India, NGOs face a mix of restrictive laws, digital surveillance and financial blockages— a triple squeeze many other countries are adopting, including the US these days," he shared. It's critical to invest sustainably in youth networks, local coalitions, and distributed campaigns, which tend to be more resilient than big single-location projects.

Blair also called for coalition underwriting and insurance mechanisms like political risk insurance, legal defence pools, and relocation funds underwritten collectively by EU member states, foundations and INGOs to cover emergency costs for lawyers, safehouses, and relocation of activists where necessary.

"Another big lesson is that we need to normalize conversations about
consolidation in our field, to protect the value that we have created even if
some organizations don’t survive in their current form," he added.

Civil society is under threat, but the story doesn’t end there.

At Civic Space Under ...Threat: An Interactive Workshop, we’ll bring together activists, advocates, and changemakers to share experiences, learn from one another, and design strategies that keep civic space open. This is not another panel – you’ll be in conversation with peers in breakout groups, working on the challenges and solutions that matter most to you.

📍 Thursday, 25 September
📍 1:00 – 2:30 PM GMT | 9:00 – 10:30 AM ET
📍 Virtual
📍 Register here: https://bit.ly/42sk2Jp

Co-hosted with CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Forus international, Oxfam, TAP Network - Transparency, Accountability & Participation, Transparency International, Quaker United Nations Office

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Despite decades of anti-money laundering reforms, less than 1% of criminal proceeds laundered ...through the financial system are seized.

Accountability Lab co-CEO Blair Glencorse joined other anticorruption and finance experts, as well as key government decision makers to shape the agenda for the UK government’s Illicit Finance Summit.

As a premier financial center, the UK has a responsibility and the expertise to drive change by:
🔲 Closing beneficial ownership loopholes by mandating disclosure for trusts, linking property and ownership data, and promoting global data standards.
🔲 Expanding international asset recovery alliances and creating transparent mechanisms to return stolen funds
🔲 Forming a coalition of global property hubs to share data and best practices for preventing money laundering through real estate.

Ultimately, these technical solutions hinge on a more human challenge: fostering cross-border cooperation and political will necessary to turn policy into practice. It’s about building a system that works for everyone.

For a more in depth look at these inputs visit:

Tackling Illicit Finance: AL shaping the agenda at Wilton Park | Accountability Lab

Our co-CEO Blair Glencorse was invited by the UK Government to contribute to the Wilton Park discussions, helping to shape the agenda for the ...

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