Accountability Lab

The 2024 Accountapreneurs from Nepal are advancing thoughtful approaches to accountability – whether through climate resilience, digital rights, civic tech, inclusive healthcare, or community-led sustainability.

What stands out across their work is not only innovation, but attentive listening – to community needs, youth voices, and lived experiences. Their initiatives remind us that accountability is not abstract; it is shaped through everyday interactions, shared responsibility, and constructive dialogue.

Accountability Lab Nepal has captured their journeys through a series of short film profiles, featuring:

🎥 Aakriti Dotel
🎥 Sadichchha Silwal
🎥 Dr. Samundra Gurung
🎥 Prince Chaudhary & Subin Shrestha (Speak Up Nepal)
🎥 Susil Khanal

Explore the playlist and hear directly from these leaders about what motivates their work:

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📍We're talking sustainable private sector AI adoption and ways to support groups of anti-corruption champions at CoSP 11 next week – join us!

Our session with Development Gateway, "Trustworthy AI ecosystems in the private sector", will be an interactive workshop. Participants from the private sector, government, academia, and civil society, will explore how scaling and benchmarking Al private sector anti-corruption solutions can create shared value when grounded in transparency, accountability, and collaboration. Rather than focusing on hype or technology for its own sake, the session will unpack the trust gap that often exists when it comes to digital systems for business integrity.

"Building the ecosystem against corruption" will explore the role of civil society, journalists and whistle-blowers in anti-corruption, how restrictions on these groups directly undermine UNCAC implementation and access to information and highlight strategies to protect civic space, and strengthen transparency and accountability.

💡 Introducing a new AI tool to strengthen integrity in public contracting!
Together with Development Gateway, we are excited to launch a new AI-powered contract summary and analysis tool through the HackCorruption program, designed to help journalists, civil society, and the private sector detect red flags in procurement processes.

This open-source AI solution automates key parts of the data analysis process, identifies trends, and sheds light on the often opaque procedures of public contracting. By making procurement data more timely and accessible, the tool aims to strengthen transparency, heighten accountability, and ensure good governance in public contracting.

This matters because public procurement is one of the largest areas of government spending, accounting for nearly a third of budgets globally - approximately $10 trillion per year. Yet, despite the enormous volume of taxpayer dollars involved, procurement data remains difficult to access and even harder to analyze, contributing to an estimated 20–25% of spending lost to corruption globally, and even higher in some regions.

🔗 Read more about this open-source AI model trained to curb corruption in public contracting: https://developmentgateway.org/blog/building-useful-usable-ai-a-new-tool-to-curb-procurement-corruption/

Building Useful & Usable AI: A New Tool to Curb Procurement Corruption – Development Gateway: An IREX Venture – Data and digital solutions for international development. DG, together with Accountability Lab, have launched a new AI-powered contract summary and analysis tool through the HackCorruption program, designed to help journalists, civil society, and the private sector detect red flags in procurement processes.