ACCOUNTABILITY LAB ZIMBABWE
Accountability Lab Zimbabwe supports citizens to build communities around new approaches for change. Among the initiatives under implementation are the Accountability Incubator, Civic Action Teams (CivActs), and Arts4Change programming which includes Voice2Rep Zimbabwe, the ALZ Film Fellowship, and the Integrity Icon Campaign. In particular, our CivActs have worked hard to protect informal markets, with the program seeing many successes such as the Goromonzi Council agreeing to provide vending bays for traders. Accountability mechanisms supporting citizen demands have also been strengthened, such as through the Harare City Council receiving censure from the Environmental Management Agency for uncollected refuse. In all areas, CivActs partners are working with communities to address these and other conflicts to repair the trust between powerholders and residents.
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Youth Participation in Matabeleland
Nonsikelelo Ndlovu-Fayayo is joined by Community Podium and Matobo Youth Development Initiative founders Nkosikhona Dibiti and Descent Deco Dube. This episode discusses the challenges young people in Matabeleland face, and the solutions they are implementing in the region.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Together with GMI – Gender Special, @accountlabpk is launching a short-film storytelling initiative with women climate journalists to document climate realities at the community level.
Journalists will report from the field, work with visual storytellers and mentors, and produce
In this special AccountabiliTea podcast episode, Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Co-CEO of Accountability Lab, reflects on what makes learning and adaptation possible in uncertain contexts.
Her insight – that learning needs to be continuous, relational, and embedded – sits alongside
As we step into a new year, Jean Scrimgeour, Co-CEO of Accountability Lab, reflects on a guiding question that shaped the Lab’s approach during a period of uncertainty: how can we be helpful?
Her reflections sit alongside insights from other voices across the Lab’s global
We’re closing out the year by sharing our newsletter wrap-up for 2025 – reflections on the learnings and collective efforts that shaped the year. As we take a short pause to rest and reset, we’re grateful to everyone who made this work possible. Wishing you a gentle close to the
The 2024 Accountapreneurs from Nepal are advancing thoughtful approaches to accountability – whether through climate resilience, digital rights, civic tech, inclusive healthcare, or community-led sustainability.
What stands out across their work is not only innovation, but
Innovation in democracy support isn’t always about new tools. It’s about recognizing the “invisible weavers” who connect institutions and communities every day. AL Non-Resident Fellow @guerzovich shares why visibility and not invention is what civic space needs now 👉
Rebalancing toward the relationships, translation work, and bilingual soft infrastructure that make democratic practice possible. Across...
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