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.
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How can a funder's exit be responsible and help build a resilient civil society?
Our Co-CEO, Cheri-Leigh Erasmus and Eszter Filippinyi of @TAICollab, explore this question in “Leaving with Care: Responsible Funder Exits.”
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📣 Nominations are open for the Get Loud Award: Democracy Defenders!
Together with Kerry Washington and her production company, Simpson Street, the Elevate Prize Foundation is looking for organizations in the US and around the world working to protect, strengthen, and reimagine
Awarded every month to a community-based organization nominated on Instagram by you! GET LOCAL. GET ORGANIZED. GET LOUD. TOPIC OF THE MONTH Democracy...
What does shifting power look like in practice?
Carolyn Dallmann and Lior Ipp join Cheri-Leigh Erasmus on AccountabiliTea to explore innovative approaches to grantmaking.
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At this year’s UNGA, we joined the Ban Ki-moon Foundation, Civic Strength Partners and UNDP to convene leaders from civil society, philanthropy, and multilateral and development organizations. We met to shift the conversation about civil society’s future from diagnosis to
At this year’s UNGA, the Ban Ki-Moon Foundation, Accountability Lab, Civic Strength Partners, and UNDP convened leaders from civil society,...
"When money can buy influence and technology can multiply it, how can we protect elections from these forces?"
At the 3rd Electoral Integrity in Africa Summit in Accra, Ghana, participants highlighted the urgent need to equip citizens to assess and question online content, find
Transparency and accountability depend on a civil society that can act independently.
@accountlabng is among 31 civil society organizations calling for the withdrawal of Nigeria’s proposed Foreign Aid (Regulation, Transparency and Disclosure) Bill, 2026, which seeks to regulate
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