Discover how a single line, posted every morning for two years, became one of Uganda's most persistent accountability campaigns. This week on #WeShapeGov, we host @NadaAndersen, the Founder and CEO of StarLeo Advertising and a former President of the Uganda Advertising Association. In this episode, she explains: ■ The Micro Mission: How one line, posted every morning since the day her friends were arrested writing protest placards, became a campaign that has run for over two years. ■ Document Everything: Why activism that lives only on social media achieves nothing, and the dated photo portfolio she is sending to the ministry over a road unfinished for ten years. ■ The Fifty-Letter Method: How registered mail puts a legal obligation on any institution to respond. ■ The Beer Crate Years: The Uganda she found in 1993, when ministers drank alongside ordinary people. Watch the full conversation on YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=0SUAyImO… #WeShapeGov

Today at @RetroReport, New York, we're convening #TheListeningState at #UNGA81, bringing funders, African leaders, and practitioners together around what it takes for a state to listen to its citizens and respond. Anchored on three questions: what rebuilds trust between citizens and the state; whose voice counts as aid shrinks and technology shifts; and what the next decade of support for public institutions should look like. Follow the conversation here and on our channels through the evening. #WeShapeGov

We're delighted to see Leitner Center alum and former Crowley Fellow, @zenandebooi, featured in an upcoming UNGA side event hosted by the @evidence_method Lab on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Zenande will join a distinguished panel discussing "The Listening State". RSVP below!

If you’re in #NewYork for #UNGA81, add #TheListeningState, happening on Wednesday 23rd September to your agenda. We are convening a conversation on strengthening public service delivery and governance through data, civic technology, and citizen engagement. Meet the speakers; 🔹 Tawanda Mutasah, President & CEO, American Jewish World Service 🔹 Dr. Jackie Dugard, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights, @ishrcolumbia Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University 🔹 @mandeep_tiwana1, Secretary General, @CIVICUSalliance 🔹 Roland Ebole, Regional Programme Officer, East Africa, @FordFoundation 🔹 @zenandebooi, Member, @PeerDefense (PDP) The evening MC, Mwanase Ahmed, Coordinator, Pan African Solidarity Network, and panel moderator @mkatagaya, team leader, @evidence_method, and visiting scholar, @ishrcolumbia Columbia University 📍 @RetroReport, 633 Third Avenue, New York City Register to attend here: evidenceandmethodslab.org/ev… #WeShapeGov #CivicTechAfrica

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CALL FOR CONSULTANTS We seek consultants to provide technical and strategic support to strengthen and scale civic-tech solutions under the Civic Tech Lab programme. Access the full Terms of Reference (ToRs) and application details here: evidenceandmethodslab.org/ca… #WeShapeGov

How can data, civic technology, and citizen engagement transform public service delivery? On 23 September, we will host The Listening State during the UN General Assembly (#UNGA81) in New York, a conversation on strengthening public services and governance through better use of data, civic technology, and citizen engagement. @mkatagaya, Obama Scholar and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, will host the evening. 📅 23 September 2026 | 5:30–7:30 PM EST 📍 @RetroReport, 633 Third Avenue, New York City Register to join us for the conversation: evidenceandmethodslab.org/ev…

If you're in New York for the 2026 United Nations General Assembly (#UNGA81), we'd like to see you on the evening of 23 September. We are hosting The Listening State, bringing together African leaders, peers, allies, and practitioners for a conversation on strengthening public service delivery and governance through data, civic technology, and citizen engagement. The evening will be hosted at the @RetroReport, 633 Third Ave, 16th Floor, New York, on Wednesday 23 September, 5:30 – 7:30 PM. You can register to be part of this event here: evidenceandmethodslab.org/ev… #WeShapeGov #TheListeningState #UNGA2026

.@DrOtileUg encourages Ugandans to equally hold both sides of the health sector accountable. If you see a health worker walking off with what looks like medicine, report it and demand that health workers do their proper job. And keep the government in check just as hard because that is the most important part of all. Watch the full episode here: piped.video/knoUYfLn3Fw #WeShapeGov

We are hosting an evening conversation during the 2026 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81). 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 is a conversation on strengthening public service delivery and governance through data, civic technology, and citizen engagement. Three questions anchor the evening: → What rebuilds trust between citizens and the state → Whose voice counts as aid shrinks and technology shifts → What the next decade of support for African institutions should look like If you'll be in New York that week, we'd like you in the room from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at @RetroReport 633 Third Ave, 16th Floor, New York Register here: lnkd.in/dQmkvCTE #UNGA81 #TheListeningState #UNGA #WeShapeGov

Call for Expressions of Interest In partnership with CIVICUS, we invite qualified individuals and firms to apply for consultancy opportunities under the Civic Tech Lab, CIVICUS Digital Democracy Initiative. View the full consultancy opportunities and application details here: evidenceandmethodslab.org/pu… Deadline: 4 September 2026, 5:00 PM Applications/Enquiries: hello@evidenceandmethodslab.org #WeShapeGov