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This year was a particularly busy one as we crowned our latest set ofIntegrity Icons at a ceremony in Islamabad following a successfulnational campaign involving 32 districts and 100 volunteers, whocollected over 100 nominations. We continued to support the work ofour previous Icons and expand the reach of our vision of integritythrough the Integrity School, Fellowship and the Summits we hostedacross the country. Our Civic Action Teams (formerly CitizenHelpdesks) are turning into a movement through which 500+ opengovernment champions have joined us to close the feedback loopbetween citizens and local authorities, and to address critical issues incommunities. We also continued to support the work of socialentrepreneurs interested in accountability through our incubatorprogram. We will grow these programs and others to buildaccountability in Pakistan in the year to come.

We continue to reimagine how tobuild accountability in Pakistan. Ourvision is a country in which citizensare active, leaders are responsible andinstitutions are accountable. It is acountry in which resources are usedwisely, youth are taking leadershipresponsibly, decisions benefiteveryone fairly, and people leadsecure lives. Our mission is to makegovernance work for the Pakistanpeople.

Equipping reformers - inside andoutside government - with the

knowledge and tools to push forbetter governance.

Influencing policies, processes andpractices, through growing

coalitions and advocating forchange.

Shifting norms to ensure thatintegrity becomes the expected

behavior within societies.

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Integrity Icon is a campaign to recognise, celebrate andsupport honest government officials by “naming andfaming” them publicly. Since 2014, we have mobilised amassive youth movement around the campaign and built anetwork of 350 organisations and integrity champions.

This year’s top five officials included Rohana Kakar,Secretary Regional Transport Authority from Balochistan;Zahid Ali Khan Khattak, Medical Superintendant at WAPDAHospital in Azad Jammu and Kashmir; Imran Zia, DistrictMonitoring Officer Haripur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;Umar Tufail, Senior Superintendent of Police KhairpurDistrcit in Sindh; and Rizwan Akram Sherwani, DirectorExcise and Taxation in Punjab.

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Batool Asadi, Integrity Icon 2018, was invited to theUniversity of Oxford Blavantik School of Government'sChallenges of Government Conference as a speaker in2019.Integrity Icon 2019, Rohana Kakar, was invited toUNDP's National Youth Policy Forum 2020 in Pakistanas a speaker.2019's Integrity Icon campaign received extensivenational and international media coverage. Thecampaign was covered by NPR, Daily Dawn, Jang,NewsBox, Associated Press Pakistan, Samaa, BaaghiTV, Balochistan Express, Asia Net, PTI News, LibertyWire, and more.

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Following the Integrity Icon 2019 ceremony, RohanaKakar voiced her support for the polio eradicationinitiative in Quetta. More than 25 online and print media outlets havecovered the campaign including national dailies such asRepublica and The Himalayan Times.

The Integrity Summitis a platform to build a community forintegrity, through which we bringtogether experts in governance,accountability, citizen engagementand open government from acrossPakistani society- along with theIcons- to discuss integrity in Pakistan.

Accountability Leadership TrainingProgrammeis a comprehensive training programat the respected Civil ServicesAcademy in Lahore. The programmeaims to impart the values of theIntegrity Icon campaign on to traineecivil servants and train them tobecome responsible leaders.

Integrity Innovation Labis a collaboration with the CivilServices Academy which allowsfuture leaders to move beyondclassroom learning and towards thedevelopment of behaviors and ideasthat can transform the institutionsinto which they will be placed.

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278+ Integrity Summit participants280 civil servants trained

The team works with the Icons and their networks through summits, trainingprograms, fellowships, events and retreats, to begin to push for norm-changeswithin institutions, agencies, civil service training programs and schools/colleges.

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consumers' needs and

preferences. " ""The overall training provided beneficial information required by

civil servants to operate in a complex environment such asPakistan."

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In 2019, Accountability Lab Pakistan launched the YouthPeace Incubator project at the Muhammad NawazShareef University of Agriculture in Multan. Through thisproject, ALP partnered with the university's Music Society,Drama Society, and Literary Society to conduct trainingworkshops on countering violent extremism, after whichmentoring sessions were arranged, and finally, studentswere assigned social action projects.

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4 wards opened up information through digital informationboards and are collecting citizen feedback on public financialmanagement issues;500 meetings/orientation and workshops for over 7,500 peopleon various issues such as foreign labor migration and the useof government problem resolution channels; We directly engaged 500+ migrant workers, forming 43 informalgroups with a total of 429 returnee migrants;77 active young people (11 in each district) have participated inbudget consultations;8 municipalities have allocated about $55,000 in funding tosupport returnees in enterprise creation, awareness campaignsand building ward-level databases to improve evidence-baseddecision making;75 CSOs have indicated an interest in exploring how theseissues impact their ongoing programs and have shownwillingness to support further collaboration around the issues.

Read more about our impact on our work with fiscal transparencyhere.

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500Open Governemnt Champions

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Fail FairesIn 2019, Accountability Lab Pakistan hosted two Fail Fairesin an effort to generate discussion around seeing failure asan opportunity to keep trying. Speakers from differentbackgrounds were invited to share their stories of repeatedfailures in their personal and professional lives, whichallowed them to learn and understand themselves better,and ultimately led them to success. The Fail Faires areinteractive discussions and allow the audience anopportunity to share their failures and what they learnedfrom them.

Media LabAccountability Lab Pakistan established its media lab as aplace to carry out activities such as podcast recordings,video recordings, and training programmes. The firstpodcast recorded in the media lab was a conversationbetween ALP's Bakhtawar Khalid and Open Gov HubDirector Nada Zohdy.

Business Accountability BootcampsAccountability Lab Pakistan initiated these bootcamps asan opportunity for participants to understand the inherentlinkage between unethical business practices and theircausation amid the opaque and non-responsive businesspolicies of the government. The bootcamps targetedyoung and old businesses across three provincial capitals;Lahore, Peshawar, and Karachi.

30 accountapreneurs, working on 6 themes includinglocal governance; art, theatre, and film; gender andethnicity; education and civic tech; cultural heritageawareness; and labor migration.Maliha Kayani, a member of the 2017 cohort, wasselected for the F-Lane Accelerator Programme and theHalcyon Fellowship. 2017 cohort member, Maria Mahmood, was selected forthe International Visitor Leadership Programme.Ommer Amir from the 2019 cohort won the SDGBootcamp for Changemakers.Madeeha Raza, a member of the 2018 cohort, joined theAccountability Lab team on a trip to Georgia to attend theOpen Government Partnership Summit.2018 cohort member Mishel Ijaz is implementing a pilotprogramme which maps squatter settlements in Lahore.

The Accountability Incubator is a year-long training andsupport program for young people with great ideas foraccountability. Akin to a business incubator, theAccountability Incubator provides “accountapreneurs” withtraining (quarterly meet-ups and online modules), hands-onmentorship (support for the development of ideas),communications support (such as promo videos and blogs),networks (through pitch events and “friendraisers”) andfinancial resources (an innovation fund).

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Programs49.5%

Salaries33.3%

Direct Costs17.2%

Tech Camp 2019: This year, Accountability Lab Nepalcollaborated with the US State Department's TechCamp. One of our team members was a trainer onoffline campaigning strategies for the "Tech CampClean Air for South Asia" in Kathmandu. In addition, weare taking this forward through a series of follow upevents with Tech Camp participants and supportingtheir needs in 2020.

Speak UP! We won the Speak UP! Championship, onInternational Peace Day, together with Idea Ghar andAbiral-The Arts Group. We organized an eventpromoting climate accountability through a bicycle rallyand theatre performances.

Deputy Mayor Peer Learning Workshop: With morewomen in leadership positions after the local elections,these leaders are facing a number of differentchallenges in their new roles. The Lab team organized apeer learning workshop for Deputy Mayors in Banke.

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Office 205 – Royal Suites Plaza, E-11/2 Markaz, Islamabad.Phone: +92 51 2304924Email: fayyaz@accountabilitylab.org

AL Pakistan is a registered non-profit based inIslamabad, and an affiliate of the Global AccountabilityLab movement

We have already organized more than 200 events atOpenGov Hub Kathmandu including fundraisers,networking events, film-screenings, "lunch and learns",and more. We have more than 5 member organizations who arebased in our space with 12 virtual memberorganizations.

There are often very few, managed spaces where youngpeople can come together, get online and collaborate inNepal. The OpenGov Hub provides the location for ourincubator and campaign activities (including training,events, and management) but also serves as a way for usto support the civil society eco-system in Nepal. For us, animportant part of supporting a movement for accountabilityis bringing together a broad set of creative stakeholders-from film-makers to activists to ICT experts to governmentinformation officers- in an open, creative space, bothphysically and intellectually. 

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2019 FINANCES

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$302,120NPR 30,212,000

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