“I think I will be engaged in social services as long as I live”

A senior midwife of great experience, Sita Kumari Sharma speaks very seriously about the public service. She has many stories too, about her experiences at Nepal’s Birendranagar Municipal Health Office. But if you ask her about the public service, her sense of duty is what she talks about. “If sharing my knowledge helps people, brings positive change or adds a new dimension to their life, even if no one else does, I feel internally motivated to do so. I think I will be engaged in social services [...]

“I think I will be engaged in social services as long as I live”2020-07-09T12:24:48+00:00

Why ‘naming and faming’ matters for social accountability practice

Dr Mirja Delport is a doctor at the Oudtshoorn District Hospital in South Africa. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, she's been on the frontlines, working day shifts at the hospital and then doing double duty at a community clinic near her home. In a webinar unpacking social accountability practice that was co-hosted by Accountability Lab and the World Bank, she shared how doing the right thing in an emergency response - often with very limited resources - and being famed for it was a powerf [...]

Why ‘naming and faming’ matters for social accountability practice2020-07-08T10:49:57+00:00

TISL launches Integrity Icon Sri Lanka 2020

Following the success of the Integrity Icon campaigns in 2018 and 2019, Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) yesterday announced that nominations are now being accepted for Integrity Icon Sri Lanka 2020 to “name and fame” honest public officials. Initially conceptualised by Accountability Lab, a global organisation that seeks to support change-makers to develop and implement positive ideas for integrity in their communities, Integrity Icon was held in Sri Lanka in 2018 and 2019 under the [...]

TISL launches Integrity Icon Sri Lanka 20202020-07-08T10:47:25+00:00

Pakistan 2019 Icon Rohana Kakar Defies Stereotypes And Inspires Others

Rohana Kakar serves as a Secretary for the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) in Quetta Balochistan province. The mandate of her position is to provide safe and dignified transport services to people in three districts – Quetta, Pishin, and Qilla Abdullah. She takes strict action to prevent malpractice in public transport such as the cancellation of illegal permits and licenses, and against those caught driving without licenses. For this purpose she introduced a Driving License Mechanism and mad [...]

Pakistan 2019 Icon Rohana Kakar Defies Stereotypes And Inspires Others2020-07-08T10:39:31+00:00

Introducing the Icon Integrity Niger 2019 Winners

Integrity Icon Niger is a national movement that happens on the ground, online and through the media. Its goal is to identify and celebrate honest and honest public servants of public administration. Its aim is to generate a constructive conversation about integrity and accountability and to build a network of civil servants who can fight corruption. The Integrity Icon Project highlights integrity in the public to enable Nigerians to question existing realities; to support behavioural changes th [...]

Introducing the Icon Integrity Niger 2019 Winners2020-07-08T13:02:17+00:00

Police officer ‘who rejected N6m bribe’ named 2019 Integrity Icon

Francis Erhabor, the divisional police officer of Itam, Akwa Ibom state police command, has received the 2019 Integrity Icon award for rejecting a N6 million bribe to compromise the security system while he was a pipeline commander in Edo. The Integrity Icon summit & award is organised by Accountability Lab in partnership with Luminate, MacArthur and Ford Foundation “to name and fame honest government officials, thereby encouraging integrity in the public service”. The officer was honoured a [...]

Police officer ‘who rejected N6m bribe’ named 2019 Integrity Icon2020-01-23T09:40:50+00:00

Workplace honesty: Policeman emerges lead integrity icon

A Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mr. Francis Erhabor has emerged the lead Integrity Icon of 2019 in a workplace honesty survey conducted by the Accountability Lab Nigeria, an organisation committed to “naming  and faming” honest civil servants in Nigeria. Other icons honoured at the award event which held Tuesday night in Abuja were Kacheilom Betram Roberts-Ndukwe, a teacher at GSS Andoni in Rivers state; Tina Odinakachi Iirmdu, a lecturer at the University of Jos; Christian Ahiauzu, an I [...]

Workplace honesty: Policeman emerges lead integrity icon2020-01-23T09:34:45+00:00

CSO recognises 5 outstanding Nigerians in Abuja

By Kadiri Abdulralahman Abuja – Accountability Lab, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), on Tuesday recognised five outstanding Nigerian civil servants, who maintained virtues of integrity and transparency in the discharge of their duties. The awardees were awarded with the Integrity Icon Award for 2019. The awardees were Mrs Kacherlam Betran, a Teacher from Adoni, Rivers State, CSP Francis Erhabor of Nigeria Police and Tina Odinakachi , a Lecturer at the University of Jos. Others are Christian A [...]

CSO recognises 5 outstanding Nigerians in Abuja2020-01-22T12:03:06+00:00

Nigeria Police officer ‘who’s never received bribe’ gets top award

The Divisional Police Officer, Itam, Akwa Ibom State Police Command, Francis Erhabor, says he has never taken a bribe in the course of his work as a police officer. “The issue of my being here today started from when I entered the job, I took a strong vow, I knew my system thrive in corruption and I said to myself, ‘If I would in any way corrupt myself, I told the Lord don’t humiliate me in secret, show me on big time televisions like NTA, BBC, and CNN,” Mr Erhabor said recently. He said he was [...]

Nigeria Police officer ‘who’s never received bribe’ gets top award2020-01-22T11:42:24+00:00

‘Lack of integrity may undermine national productivity, growth’

Experts have decried the impact poor integrity in Nigeria’s public and private sector, insisting that this could undermine economic projection and national development. Speaking during the 2020 edition of Integrity Icon, a programme organised by Accountability Lab Nigeria, in Abuja, yesterday, stakeholders noted that integrity across sectors of the economy remained the foundation to the nation’s development. While urging government at all levels to come up with the right policy that would ensure [...]

‘Lack of integrity may undermine national productivity, growth’2020-01-22T11:26:50+00:00
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