📢 Opportunity alert! Local Works Global is recruiting its first-ever cohort of interns across four areas: → Storytelling and community engagement → Policy and research → Network engagement and community support → Fundraising and business development These remote roles offer interns the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful work, learn alongside an experienced global team, and receive support from a dedicated coordinator and mentor. The internships are open to applicants worldwide, with a flexible commitment of about 5 – 10 hours per week. Please note that the roles are currently unpaid. Local Works Global acknowledges the barriers this can create and encourages those who are interested but unable to take on unpaid work to reach out and stay connected for future paid opportunities. 📅 Applications close on October 5. 🔗 Learn more and apply: localworksglobal.org/interns…

What happens to peace when we can no longer agree on what is real? AI-generated content, manipulated media, and algorithm-driven narratives are changing how conflicts are understood – often allowing fear and outrage to travel faster than verified information. This International Day of Peace, we’re reflecting on why investing in peace must also mean investing in trustworthy information, media literacy, and digital accountability. Read “Battleground Algorithms” by Muhammad Abubakar of @accountlabpk: 🔗 bit.ly/4y6e6DH

What happens when peacebuilding organizations rethink how power is organized? Dzikamai Bere’s Community Publishing article explores shared, distributed & collective leadership, featuring our journey with co-leadership alongside others. Read more: bit.ly/4xu5xS0

🎙️ What changes when the people closest to a problem are trusted to help shape the solution? Our latest #AccountabiliTea episode explores lived experience, decision-making, and new approaches to risk in grantmaking. Listen, watch, or read the transcript: bit.ly/4d5BYyU

Democracy is about more than casting a vote. And participation is about more than being invited to speak. On this International Day of Democracy, we’re reflecting on what it really means for every voice to count – and what needs to happen for those voices to shape decisions. Across our network, teams and communities are putting this into practice: 🇳🇵 In Nepal, young people are examining electoral integrity and the barriers that can prevent people from participating fully – during elections and beyond. Read the story from @accountlabnp: bit.ly/4cHrohE 🇳🇬 In Nigeria, residents spoke up about an unmanaged dumpsite affecting their health and daily lives. Their experiences were documented and shared with the responsible institutions. The site was subsequently cleared and barricaded. Read the story from @accountlabng: bit.ly/46p78he 🇲🇱 In Mali, communities are learning to recognize and resist disinformation by questioning, verifying, and thinking carefully before sharing information. Explore the work of @accountlabmali: bit.ly/4AfBvEm These stories remind us that democracy delivers when people can participate meaningfully, see institutions respond, and access reliable information. #IDD2026

🎙️ Our new AccountabiliTea episode is out, asking what it takes to shift power in philanthropy. Cheri-Leigh Erasmus speaks with Carolyn Dallmann from @HumanityUnited and Lior Ipp from the Proximate Futures Fund about participatory grantmaking, proximate leadership, and rethinking trust, power, and risk in philanthropy. 🔗 Watch, listen, or read the transcript: bit.ly/4d5BYyU

Meet Masha Lisitsyna, our Senior Non-Resident Fellow! With 25+ years in human rights, accountability & democracy, she has worked to protect human rights defenders & marginalized communities, advance accountability & strengthen collaboration. We're excited to have her expertise shaping our work.

We're excited to release AL's New Strategic Directions paper which sets out where we believe the accountability field needs to go and the role we can play within it. Read all about it in this overview from our Co-CEO @blairglencorse: bit.ly/4gO0A0j

The incredible solidarity in Nepal in the wake of the recent flooding disaster is to be commended. However, the downstream destruction was not simply an unavoidable tragedy. Much of it reflects choices already built into the country’s political economy. In a new piece for @SCMPNews, @accountlabnp's Narayan Adhikari provides five ways Nepal could move from emergency solidarity to systemic institutional accountability: scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinio…

🌍 Who truly holds the reins in “country-led” development? In a new piece for @InDepthNews, AL Senior Non-Resident Fellow Soheila Comninos argues that civil society and communities – not governments alone – must help shape development priorities. 🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/3UvZPS0

Pakistan’s digital transformation is moving fast – but who risks being left behind? Muhammad Abubakar, Program and Communications Manager at @accountlabpk, explores digital trust, online rights, information integrity, and AI – and what they mean for an inclusive digital democracy. Read more: bit.ly/4xDjnml #DigitalDemocracy #DigitalInclusion #ArtificialIntelligence #InformationIntegrity #Pakistan

Meet @Halloran_B, our Senior Non-Resident Fellow! Brendan supports organizations, coalitions and communities of practice to develop participatory, systems-oriented approaches to analysis, strategy, research and learning. His current work explores how locally rooted, participatory approaches can help democratic and accountability ecosystems move from isolated interventions towards collective, sustained change. Read more about his approach here: thepolicypractice.com/govern… We look forward to the perspective, energy, and insight he brings to our work.

💬 What could shared leadership make possible in your organization? Accountability Lab, Digital Action & the Human Rights Measurement Initiative invite you to a Co-Leadership Community of Practice. Meet fellow leaders, exchange bold ideas & shape the future of shared leadership! 👉 Join the Co-Leadership Community of Practice: bit.ly/4zqB9KI #CoLeadership #SharedLeadership #Leadership #CommunityOfPractice

📍Since 2022, Gen Z movements have been at the forefront of demonstrations across the world. In a short 4 years, 5 heads of state have been toppled, and the definition of what constitutes civic action has expanded. They took their grievances – corruption and elite privilege, public service failure, economic insecurity, and repression – to the streets. In the coming weeks, we’re catching up with movement participants from Nepal to Kenya on how they’re working to build lasting civic structures, and what that process reveals about the gap between youth energy and institutional readiness. #BridgingTheGap #GenZ #GenZMovement

What helps a civic-tech tool continue serving its purpose after its first grant cycle ends? Through Lexicon Procurement and ePMS, two HackCorruption teams, Khadijah Chang explores why stakeholder relationships and resource planning must be part of the build itself. Read the blog here: 🔗 bit.ly/44Oqonr #HackCorruption #CivicTech #AntiCorruption #LexiconProcurement #ePMS

🎉 Congratulations to @Ysallay97, Finance Officer at Accountability Lab Liberia, on her election as Student President of the Graduate School at Starz University! Alongside her work with @accountlablib, Yassah is pursuing a Master's degree in Human Resource Management. We are pleased to celebrate this exciting milestone and wish her every success in her new leadership role. 👏 Congratulations, Yassah!

📮 We’re excited to invite you to a side event at the 2026 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) Join us for a powerful, online showcase of how local efforts contribute to advancing the 2030 Agenda and SDG16+, with an emphasis on evolving, scaling, and flourishing amidst crisis. 📅 Thursday, July 9, 9-10:30am EDT / 3-4:30pm CEST | Online 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4p8W7sR The event will showcase video stories submitted to the Voices of SDG16+ 2026 campaign, highlighting inspiring stories of civil society actors working at the local level to promote peaceful, just, and inclusive societies amid complex challenges. #SDG16 #VoicesOfSDG16 #HLPF2025 #CivilSociety #2030Agenda

As the Nepal government completes its first 100 days in office, it has shared a series of fiscal, administrative, infrastructural, and investment-related initiatives, hopefully paving a different route from the past. Yet the central question remains as to whether the government has lived up to its commitments to good governance. In this new edition of the Governance Weekly newsletter, Team Nepal outlines the government's key thematic commitments and maps their progress: bit.ly/4vK2G7x Follow @accountlabnp for more.