Fighting Corruption: “Naming and Faming”: Liberia’s Most Honest Gov’t Officials

By: Lawrence Yealue, Country Representative for Accountability Lab Liberia. This article was originally published by Front Page Africa. National TV and Radio Campaign by Accountability Lab this week seeks to celebrate “Integrity Idols”. Corruption and a lack of accountability remain critical challenges to Liberia’s development- the most recent Transparency International poll scored Liberia at just 83rd out of 168 countries.Traditional approaches to tackling corruption have tended to involve the creation of laws, enforcement of rules and efforts to ensure compliance by individuals- all of which are a part of the solution.The difficulty with these approaches, however, is that they start [...]