🛤️ ONE YEAR ON: Impacts of shrinking aid on local CSOs in the Global South, captures the realities around institutional strain, ethical trade-offs, and erosion of trust.

Crucially, CSOs share recommendations on how donors can best support the development ecosystem

👓 Read the report: bit.ly/4bB419H

📣 Accountability Lab is pleased to share that Beloved Chiweshe has been appointed Country Director of Accountability Lab Zimbabwe.

We look forward to the next chapter of Accountability Lab Zimbabwe’s work under his leadership.

🔗 Full announcement: bit.ly/3LXtbF3

📣 Free virtual course: Climate, Democracy & Development

@govactionhub.bsky.social and the @univofmaryland.bsky.social are offering a free course (Feb 2–May 4) with weekly live sessions, peer collaboration, and a certificate.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4sKFDZr

🎙️ In this episode of the #AccountabiliTeaPodcast, Habibou Diaou reflects on leadership as a collective practice – grounded in humility, listening, and making space for many voices. A reminder that #accountability is built through relationships, not position alone.

🎧: https://bit.ly/3cs6Ywz

AL Pakistan, with GMI – Gender Special, is launching a short-film initiative with women climate journalists to document community-level climate realities.

Field reporting, mentorship, and short films on land, livelihoods, health, governance, and local resilience.

👀 More to come.

🎙️ A simple guiding question: how can we be helpful?

In this episode of the AccountabiliTea podcast, Jean Scrimgeour (Co-CEO, Accountability Lab) and voices from across the Lab’s global network reflect on learning, care, and what helps accountability work endure. 🎧 https://bit.ly/3cs6Ywz

In this #AccountabiliTea episode, Cheri-Leigh Erasmus (Co-CEO, Accountability Lab) reflects on learning as a practice – continuous, relational, and embedded. Her perspective sits alongside voices from across the Lab’s global network on what helps accountability work endure. 🎧 https://bit.ly/3cs6Ywz

We're sharing our newsletter wrap-up for 2025 – reflections on the learnings and collective efforts that shaped the year. As we pause to rest and reset, thank you for being part of this community.

🔗: https://bit.ly/4aRLR2Y 📰

🎙️ What does accountability look like after 13 years? Voices from Accountability Lab’s global network reflect on learning, resilience, and renewal.

🎧 Listen:
➡️ AL website: https://bit.ly/3cs6Ywz
➡️ Spotify: https://apple.co/4an1uzm
➡️ Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/4aTqApu

#AccountabiliTeaPodcast

#AntiCorruptionDay reflections from our work in 2025: #accountability that makes sense in real lives, grounded integrity inside systems, solutions co-created, not imposed, adaptive approaches, strong #civicspace, iterative innovation, and youth trusted as real actors.

💡 Introducing a new #AI tool to strengthen integrity in public contracting! Together with @dgateway.bsky.social, we built an AI-powered solution to summarize contracts, flag risks & make procurement data more transparent, helping fight corruption. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4rtIGV7
#hackcorruption

A few weeks ago, we convened a few of our #HackCorruption teams in Mexico City for a reflective learning workshop to map out their possible next steps. Find out all the details in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrKsgPxXmr8

🎥 Sebastian Marin

📰 A new Civic Charge roundup brings together reflections from incredible young people working on digital rights, civic tools, and climate change mitigation, among other things! 👓 More here: https://bit.ly/4okXkeo

How do organizations liberate themselves from donor funds and develop homegrown endowments in sustainable ways? PeaceConnect in Nairobi had some good ideas! Read more here: https://bit.ly/4io5YHY
@peacedirect.bsky.social

From IDD Brussels to the @opengovpartnership.org Summit, one message stood out: inclusion isn’t a side note, it is the work. Young people and women are shaping democracy now, but systems must do more than listen. They must respond.

🔗 Read the article by Shally Baloch here: https://bit.ly/49S5mb3

📚 What does inclusive education look like when communities help shape it?

People Promote Center, with support from Accountability Lab Nepal, held a town hall in Dhanusa to discuss access to learning, infrastructure, health, and enrollment –creating space for community voices. #CivActs #Nepal

🌍 What does meaningful youth engagement look like?

Across Liberia, young people are using Digital Literacy Trainings & the National Youth Policy Dialogue to share their experiences & issues shaping their lives. Supported by Accountability Lab Liberia, UN Women Liberia, & the UN Peacebuilding Fund.

🪧 Youth protests indicate that current democratic institutions are not built to welcome swathes of young people who care deeply about their countries.

Democracy will be saved by deliberate and substantive action says AL East and Southern Africa's Dr McDonald Lewanika

bit.ly/4ol1bbN

Foreign assistance cuts have had a profound impact on civil society organizations, but they don’t need to face this challenge alone. Civic Strength Partners works closely with leadership of social impact organizations to navigate change with clarity + care. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gZNm05