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The Accountability Lab, in partnership with UNDP Guinea-Bissau and the Democracy and Governance Observatory is developing a virtual incubator for accountability to support youth striving change in Guinea-Bissau to develop new ideas that promote accountability in COVID-19 response. This initiative is an opportunity for Guinean youth to demonstrate their skills on innovation, learn and share experience.
The applications for Guinea-Bissau incubator can be sent and the applicants will be selected until the end of 2020 for the programme to start in January 2021 for one year.
COVID-19 Crisis continues to highlight the necessity of creative approaches involving youth on accountability and transparency, major civic and anticorruption engagement. There are amazing young people in Guinea-Bissau with ideas that can significantly improve the response to the pandemic and make accountable for their decisions those that are in charge. But these change agents rarely receive the support and guidance they need no develop those ideas, collaborate among them and create a positive sense of collective energy. Corruption became normal and it’s difficult for youth to imagine a brighter future. Therefore, this initiative can help them to collectively think different and positive.
The Accountability Lab has been providing Accountability Incubators for more than 5 years in several contexts and countries such as Nigeria, Mali, Liberia, Nepal and Pakistan. It’s about providing one year of learning and capacity development to a wide range of countability protagonist “accountapreneurs”.
The process includes quarterly training and workshops of 3 days; mentoring and continuous support; as well as a variety of networking events along with the initial funding.
This incubator aims at being a platform fostering innovation, collective action and creation of an ecosystem able to evolve and turn into the main support mechanism for the next generation of civil society leaders in the region.
Find out more about the initiative in the following links:
