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Accountability Lab and Business Start Up Center (BSC) Monrovia partner to develop “Social Impact Tours” of Liberia

The Accountability Lab and BSC Monrovia are pleased to announce a partnership to develop social impact tours of Liberia. The tours will provide visitors to Liberia with alternative perspectives on Liberian society which go well beyond traditional tourism; generate a learning experience with important insights into developmental projects that work; and build relationships with Liberians for positive economic change. Participants on the tour will visit a variety of social entrepreneurs in Monrovia through tailored one or two day itineraries. The tours will include a boat ride with Olisco Kayea and his team of mechanics who build water taxis out of [...]

Graft-busting tours of Nepal and Liberia to showcase grassroots activism

By: Stella Dawson. This article was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation News. WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Civil society group Accountability Lab has come up with a new way to raise awareness of how to combat corruption – bus tours. The non-profit is developing a series of tours of its grassroots work in Liberia and Nepal to give travelers a different experience of local culture, while helping to fight bribery, graft and promote transparent government. “Instead of tourists visiting slum dwellers, I want to show positive things that people are doing to change the quality of their lives in [...]