Accountability Lab has launched its 2022 hunt for Liberia’s Integrity Icon with a much more focus on identifying women who are involved in selfless sacrifices in upcoming integrity and accountability in their places of work.
Integrity Icon is a national movement to celebrate and encourage honest public servants across the country, with a focus on naming and ‘faming’ honest public servants as opposed to the conventional style of naming and shaming wrongdoers.
Launched in Monrovia last week, the program has worked to showcase honest public servants in a country that perennially ranks at the bottom of corruption indices. It was launched in Liberia in 2015 and has so far honored 35 civil servants and public officials for being honest in their duties and helping to transform society, according to Accountability Lab-Liberia Country Director, Lawrence Yealue.
The official launch gives way to members of the public to submit nominations for outstanding public servants in various government sectors that demonstrate honesty and integrity under difficult circumstances.
Yealue said his team will verify all submissions and narrows to at least 30. As part of the project, a panel of three judges will then narrow the 30 nominations to the top five finalists, he noted.
“We are ready to get on the field in every part of the country where there are civil servants,” Yealue noted. “We want to say a big thank you to everyone out there doing the right thing all the time when no one is looking. I want to let you know that you are the ones who are making this country better. It is you that we seek to name and fame.”
Article originally published by the Liberian Observer