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2011 Accountability Ratings Press Conference held in Austin, TX at the Texas Education Agency on July 29.
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Scenes from the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) Side Event: A Feminist Accountability Framework: What the World Needs to Achieve Gender Equality and All the Sustainable Development Goals, co-sponsored by ICRW and its partners Equal Measures 2030, Save the Children, Global Citizen, Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), UN Women, the Government of Costa Rica, and the Government of Zambia. Held at the Church Centre in New York on 18 July 2017.
Pictured Above: Grace Choi, Associate Director for Global Gender Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children USA
Eleanor Blomstrom, Co-Director and Head of Office at WEDO, Women’s Major Group Chair
Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, at the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University
Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women
Ambassador Rolando Castro, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent of Costa Rica to the United Nations
Wallace Nguluwe, Gender Specialist, Ministry of Gender, Zambia
Sai Jyothirmai Racherla, Program Director, ARROW (representing Women’s Major Group)
Alison Holder, Director, Equal Measures 2030
Jenny Ottenhoff, Policy Director, Global Health at ONE
Grace Choi, Associate Director for Global Gender Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children USA
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
On Twitter: twitter.com/UN_Women/status/887399771031429120
1lb on.
The target remains elusive for now but I’ll return to this in earnest after my holiday… #accountability
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
(before anyone gets all up in arms, if you've never seen me in person, I am much shorter than you think I am: about 5'7")
Goals:
-I want to be back into my clothes. I can button the bigger sizes when I'm at the thinnest part of my cycle, but they're not comfortable.
-More tone and definition, especially in my upper arms and around my middle.
-I'd like to able to wear skirts in the summer without getting rashes on my legs from chafing.
-Relearning to eat in moderation. Plants, mostly, and not too much, if you will. Prior to shacking up, I ate a lot more salad, cheese and whole grains. I've used Punsir's preferences as an excuse to eat more meat, more processed foods and more alcohol.
-If that number wanted to drop by about 15, that'd be fine.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ( second from left ) with Stephen Harper ( third from left) Prime Minister of Canana, Dr Margaret Chan ( left), Director-General, World Healtth Organization and Hamadoun Touré ( right ) Secrétary-Général, International Telecommunication Union during the Accountability for Women's and Children's Health
(UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre)
South Sudan needs to move ahead now and enforce Justice and accountability, the top United Nations Diplomat, Ambassador Samantha Power, said on Saturday September 3, 2016, shortly after meeting with the council of ministers in Juba.
“For as long as armed actors, rape, loot and kill with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here,” Ambassador Power told the council of Ministers in Juba.
Security Council delegates reiterated that the United Nations and member states remain committed to see an end to violence so that people can begin to recover from years of conflict and alleviate the suffering of the people.
'President Bush: the world holds you accountable'.
This snapshot of the cultural manifestation in Brussels on Sunday 20th
against the visit of president Bush, as opening to the street
manifestations on Monday and Tuesday, gives a good idea of what the
protesters want to say to the president of the United States.
It summarizes, according to the organizers, all the criticisms against
the Bush-administration. That it is responsible for crimes against peace
and the crimes against international law and the war crimes that come
with it; for crimes against human rights and for crimes against the
planet; for the organised theft and plunder of the resources of the
world. On these levels the politics of president Bush are considered by
the protesters and a large part of the Belgian and European public as
the worst possible scenario that America, as a world leader, can write
out to the planet.
Miatta Mulbah is currently an accountapreneur with the Accountability Lab. In Liberia, many young girls engage in commercial sex in order to survive or to pay for school. Miatta’s vision is “a Liberia where teenage girls are not exposed or forced into harmful practices that endanger their health or their future.” Through her organization Leemah, Miatta is using music and street theater to advocate for and raise awareness among girls in Montserrado and Margibi counties, ages 11-25, who face challenges of sexual violence, abuse, poverty. Leemah strives to change the mindsets vulnerable Liberian girls, and the broader community, to understand their rights and responsibilities as citizens and to rethink their future.
Maj. Mark DeRocchi, deputy commander, and Debbie Fletcher, civil planner in the Emergency Management Office, help Col. Christopher Lestochi, district commander, establish communications using a satellite phone March 27 after the initial evacuation of the district headquarters building on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson JBER (official) during the first day of the Alaska Shield Exercise. A simulated 9.2 earthquake hit Southcentral Alaska in the morning hours of the work day followed by a series of aftershocks. The accountability of the Alaska District’s workforce was the first priority following the devastating event. Per the exercise, it was determined that the building was unsafe and the district’s alternate Emergency Operations Center was activated in the logistics office down the street.
Spc. Patrick Q. Hofmann, an automated logistics specialist with the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, inventories equipment turned in to his mobile team's operations at Coleman Barracks in Mannheim, Germany, Oct. 26, 2010 as part of the command's Task Force Harvest property accountability effort. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Tramel S. Garrett)
South Sudan needs to move ahead now and enforce Justice and accountability, the top United Nations Diplomat, Ambassador Samantha Power, said on Saturday September 3, 2016, shortly after meeting with the council of ministers in Juba.
“For as long as armed actors, rape, loot and kill with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here,” Ambassador Power told the council of Ministers in Juba.
Security Council delegates reiterated that the United Nations and member states remain committed to see an end to violence so that people can begin to recover from years of conflict and alleviate the suffering of the people.
Comedian Neal Brennan performs at the Neal Brennan Comedy Show Sunday.
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© Atrossity Photography
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Healtth Organization speaks during the Accountability for Women's and Children's Health
(UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre)
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-290
OPERATIONAL CONTRACT SUPPORT: Management and Oversight Improvements Needed in Afghanistan
Corporal Tyrone Jones, intelligence analyst, Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, and a native of San Deigo, provides security as Navy corpsmen treat simulated casualties during a training drill aboard Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, March 14, 2014. The drill was designed to ensure accountability of all personnel and gear while practicing movement to muster locations in the event of an emergency. The battalion had Navy corpsmen with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, evaluate the service members as they reacted to the situation. “I think it was vital to establish a baseline of our reactions,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Jeson Hall, a corpsman with 1st Bn., 7th Marines, and a native of Florence, Ala. “Establishing a baseline give us measures for success so we can continue to improve during future drills.” (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan)
Monrovia, Liberia - October 23, 2013: Alfred Sirleaf, a Liberian citizen journalist, started The Daily Talk in downtown Monrovia in 2000. Since then, his chalkboard newspaper has posted weekly headlines for local Liberians. By informing citizens of their rights and responsibilities, the Daily Talk will give citizens greater voice and dignity and will empower them to serve as a check against government corruption.
The chalkboard panels inward and rotate inside the small office where Alfred can prepare write and tape the latest news to the billboard newspaper. Photos by Morgana Wingard
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
This image is excerpted from a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, available here: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-282
An Iraqi Soldier from the 8th Division Iraqi Army takes accountability of his fellow Soldiers as they exit a training house on Camp Diwaniyah, Iraq, Feb. 22. The Soldiers train constantly to maintain their combat readiness. Photo by Senior Airman Eric Harris.
Girls who are involved with Leemah cook lunch for a meeting at their compound in Kakata. The founder of Leemah, Miatta Mulbah is currently an accountapreneur with the Accountability Lab. In Liberia, many young girls engage in commercial sex in order to survive or to pay for school. Miatta’s vision is “a Liberia where teenage girls are not exposed or forced into harmful practices that endanger their health or their future.” Through her organization Leemah, Miatta is using music and street theater to advocate for and raise awareness among girls in Montserrado and Margibi counties, ages 11-25, who face challenges of sexual violence, abuse, poverty. Leemah strives to change the mindsets vulnerable Liberian girls, and the broader community, to understand their rights and responsibilities as citizens and to rethink their future.
Witness Against Torture and Amnesty International USA marched from the US Capitol to the White House on April 30, 2009 to mark the end of the first 100 days of President Obama's term and demand accountability for torture and abuse. Photo by Shawn Duffy
Holt Webb, in the "greasy" waters off the Mississippi coast
photo courtesy of Drew Landry (post production by Holt Webb)
5 May 2023 – ADB has committed to significantly increase its climate change financing. Ensuring its financing is fit for purpose requires much greater transparency, participation, and accountability. CSOs have strengths in all these areas.
This session tackled key issues on enhancing people’s access to information on how climate finance is being allocated, spent, and for what; CSOs and youth’s roles in design, implementation, and monitoring of climate finance projects; and how CSOs can constructively engage with governments and ADB to improve climate finance governance.
The event was held on the sidelines of the 56th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors.
The “Better Alberta” project met in Calgary on June 26, 2008. Discussions included various concerns and ideas people have for the state of our province, particularly as it concerns our alleged ‘democracy’ and our government.
The meeting broke in to a bnuch of small discussion groups who produced these notes on flip charts.
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan Air Force Airmen and civilian contractors perform Personnel Accountability Inventory incorporating a Biometrics component to strengthen force accountability and enhance force protection for AAF and Coalition partners Nov. 29 at the Afghan Air Force Base in Kabul, Afghanistan. (US Navy photo by MC2 Vladimir Potapenko/RELEASED).
Photo 3- Human rights, including freedom of expression, association, assembly and information, rights of political participation and guarantees of physical integrity, are essential to ensuring those in authority answer to those in their society facing poverty, deprivation and discrimination. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has been undermined by systemic failures allowing States to avoid accountability when they have not met their commitments.
© UN Photo/ Albert Gonzalez Farran
5 May 2023 – ADB has committed to significantly increase its climate change financing. Ensuring its financing is fit for purpose requires much greater transparency, participation, and accountability. CSOs have strengths in all these areas.
This session tackled key issues on enhancing people’s access to information on how climate finance is being allocated, spent, and for what; CSOs and youth’s roles in design, implementation, and monitoring of climate finance projects; and how CSOs can constructively engage with governments and ADB to improve climate finance governance.
The event was held on the sidelines of the 56th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors.
THE GREAT DEBATE: GENDER AND LEADERSHIP
MAKE YOUR MARK IN DEVELOPING A “CHECKLIST FOR ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP”
We do not have to look too far around us to know that leadership can make or break whole countries. What makes a great leader, and where does gender feature in the checklist for good leadership? During the course of 2009, there will be six elections in Southern Africa: in South Africa, Malawi, Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique. Read more...
The GMDC is a Southern African partnership between knowledge institutions and media development NGOs for the generation, collection, connection and dissemination of knowledge. In light of the upcoming elections in six Southern African countries, the GMDC plans to provide a forum for a series of on line and face to face debates on Gender and Leadership, culminating in a “Checklist for Accountable and Responsive Leadership.” Click here to contribute to the checklist for accountable and responsive leadership.
Several seminars will be conducted with institutional partners over the next few months. These include:
· 9 Feb: At the launch of the GL/Women in Law Southern Africa (WLSA) study: At the Coalface: Gender and Local Government in Botswana and Zambia.
·12 Feb: A joint leadership debate organised by South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), Durban University of Technology (DUT) and Gender Links. It will be held on Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 18h00 for 18h30 SA time at DUT. The venue is at the 7th Floor Conference Room, D Block, Centenary Road, Durban . For more information, contact Lethu Kapueja on lethu@sanpad.org.za or call 031 279 3900.
·19 Feb: On the eve of a GMDC advisory group meeting, in partnership with GL and the Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network. For more information, please contact gmdc@genderlinks.org.za or call 011 622 2877.
·9 March: At the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) annual meeting at UN headquarters in New York, GEMSA and GL will convene a cyber dialogue on this theme. GL will also partner with the Mail and Guardian’s Critical Thinking Forum to debate the issue of politics and polygamy. For more information, please contact Sudley Adams on sudleya@mg.co.za
·17 March: During a planning meeting of the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance.
How can you get involved?
·Participate in the scheduled debates.
·Host a Gender and Leadership debate whose outcomes can be added to the checklist! Contact knowledge@genderlinks.org.za.
·Write a commentary for the daily GL Opinion and Commentary Service or a longer article for the next issue of the GMDC Gender and Media Diversity Journal that will be launched on 3 May- World Press Freedom Day. Contact editor@genderlinks.org.za
·Post your comments on what you think makes a good leader by clicking here.
For more information contact gmdc@genderlinks.org.za.
By Derrick Sinjela
THE Anglican Cathedral Corporate Partnership (ACCP) Organizing Committee spearheaded by Canon Charley Thomas and Sub Dean Canon William Vwapu successfully held a fundraising ball ahead of the 50th Anniversary after the construction of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
The ACCP Organising Committee held its inaugural annual fundraising event at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lusaka at which Zambian Head of State and Government, His Excellency, President Rupiah Banda, donated K10 million while past immediate first lady, Maureen Mwanawasa pledged K1 million with Bank of Zambia Deputy Governor-Operations Denny Kalyalya pledging K2 million.
The Cathedral Corporate Partnership Ball was held under the theme, “Restoring a National Spiritual Heritage through Partnership”.
A tentative review indicated that close to K200 million was raised by the ACCP Organising Committee whose chairperson, Shem Simuyemba was also awarded a plaque by Priest's Warden David Thompson
The ACCP organising committee awarded gold awards and plaques to Professional Life Assurance, Raubex Construction, Nyiombo Investment Limited and the Bank of Zambia, with Standard Chartered Bank PLC, Harvey Tiles Limited and Agro Fuel receiving silver recognition awards while Zambia Air Force (ZAF), Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE), Speciality Foods, National Milling Corporation (NMC), Law Association of Zambia (LAZ), Intermarket Banking Corporation and Office Machines received awards in the bronze category.
Mr. Joseph Kaziya won a weekend for two at Lusaka Hotel, while other prizes included return air tickets courtesy of Zambian Airways and Kenya Airways.
President Banda was accompanied to the ball by his wife, Thandiwe, while British High Commissioners to Zambia, Carolyn Davidson and Thomas Carter also attended.
Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) General Secretary Suzanne Matale, and representatives from the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia and the Zambia Episcopal Conference also attended.
Gracing the occasion President Banda acknowledged the importance of unity of purpose that characterized the desire to restore the dignity of the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Said an affable President Banda: “The Cathedral is more than just a symbol. It is a national spiritual icon and heritage which plays an important role in Zambia's national, State, civic and spiritual affairs. Zambia is one of the few countries in the world to boldly declare itself a Christian Nation and to have this enshrined in its Constitution. The “Christian Nation” status of Zambia validates The Cathedral's role in the nation's spiritual affairs. Indeed spiritual institutions such as the Cathedral and others are and should be a central pillar of our national activities.”
President Banda noted thus: “Thankfully, through God's grace and blessings over this country, Zambia continues to enjoy peace, stability and unity. Hopefully, through God's continued protection, we will never experience the sad situation in some of our African countries where churches had to be used as places of refuge.”
However, President Banda called for concerted efforts in building a united country. “As unpleasant as it is, this is a reality we cannot afford to ignore and which should give us even greater resolve to safeguard our hard earned peace, stability and unity. This requires that the State and Church partner to build a better and safer country for all.
President Banda observed that the MMD Government embraced many of the same virtues as the Church such as integrity, transparency, honesty, hard work, love for neighbour and love for nation.
“These Christian values are virtues that are worth embracing by all of us particularly as a Christian Nation. I therefore urge the Church to partner with us as Government, so that together we can fight some of the evils that are eating away into our society particularly among our youth. These include, idleness, drunkenness, drug abuse and even crime,” said President Banda.
Turning to the theme of this, “Restoring a National Spiritual Heritage through Partnership” President Banda observed it as apt and timely.
“The Partnership is intended to raise funds to refurbish the Cathedral leading up to the Golden Jubilee of the Cathedral to be celebrated in 2012. I therefore urge all of you present, the business community both large and small, diplomatic missions, international organizations and our cooperating partners, as well as families and individuals, to contribute generously to this noble and worthy cause. Remember, blessed is the hand that gives. As Government, we will play our part since we were involved right from the construction phase of The Cathedral. In this regard, I am therefore directing the Honourable Minister of Finance to identify avenues in which as Government, we can provide support to this worthy national cause,” prodded President Banda.
Giving a key not address as Guest Speaker, Bank of Zambia Governor, Dr Caleb Fundanga challenged the corporate world and individual citizenry continue to networking and forging partnerships in support to Church work.
In a speech read on his behalf by BoZ Deputy Governor for Operations, Denny Kalyalya, Dr Fundanga said: “It is said that “A country's character is more important than its cash reserves”. You may agree or disagree with this, but I trust this should provide informed debate and discussion during our dinner tonight and perhaps long after.
We indeed as a Church are excited with this spirit of Lordship which has been passed on from one administration to another. We thank God for this.
Bishop Njovu expressed joy at the unwavering support received from the Zambian Government, and added that the cathedral stood as a symbol of Christ's Lordship over Zambia.
“I thank you personally Government for the moral support we have continued to receive. The Cathedral is therefore, a symbol of Christ's Lordship over Zambia which has now become even more significant with the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation.
“With the foundation stone having been laid in 1957 by the Queen Mother, The Cathedral is now nearly half a century old. This magnificent national spiritual icon and heritage built through the God inspired vision of people like Bishop Oliver Green Wilkinson is now in dire need of urgent repair and refurbishment,” recalled Bishop Njovu.
And Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, The Very Revd Canon Charley Thomas gave tribute to God for the gracious opportunity of gathering a nation to celebrate the rebuilding of God's house, namely, the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Said Canon Thomas: “We thank God for this day and for this opportunity he has given us to gather as a nation to celebrate the rebuilding of God's house, the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.”
Canon Thomas reminisced that the Cathedral was built in the fifties through the vision and dedication of people like Oliver Green-Wilkinson who because the first Bishop of the now Province of Central Africa encompassing Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
“Bishop's Oliver's father was the Chaplain to the Royal Family at St. George's Chapel at Windsor and therefore had a lot of influence which in no measure, contributed to the goodwill in mobilising funds to build the Cathedral. The construction of the Cathedral commenced in 1946 when the need for a Cathedral in the then Northern Rhodesia was discussed at a Synod meeting and that decision was communicated to the Church of England, the mother body for Anglican Churches in the world,” recollected Canon Thomas
Canon Thomas added that the Church of England set up a fund and made the first contribution of one hundred pounds to that fund, marking the start of a zealous fund raising effort to which all contributed- the Government, civil society, the community and individuals.
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The printed paper statement gets quite specific about the 'abuse of our Democracy' and how to remedy the force. Is anyone listening?
The Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM) - a core element of the accountability structure of the EBRD - is responsible for addressing allegations of harm from project-affected people who consider that the Bank has not complied with the environmental, social, and transparency provisions of its policies. IPAM’S effectiveness as a non-judicial grievance mechanism is measured by its accessibility, transparency, and responsiveness to allegations within a human-rights approach.
This dedicated IPAM session will discuss the principle of “do no-harm”, the approach taken by development banks, and the role of independent accountability mechanisms in the context of the recently published UN report, Remedy in Development Finance: Guidance and Practice. The panel will be moderated by the EBRD’s Chief Accountability Officer and include representatives from civil society, multilateral development banks, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/