Upcoming Events
Accountable Now Open House
Details:
Address: 6th Floor, Metal Box Building, 25 Owl St, Braamfontein Werf, Johannesburg, 2092, South Africa
Date: Monday November 18th 2024 Time: 11am-12:30pm
For any questions about the event, please reach out to [email protected]
Peer Brainstorm Session (members only)
This session is co-facilitated by Bao Han (Accountable Now) and Apoorva Mishra from Amnesty International. It will be a collective brainstorming and exchange for colleagues working on internal standards, accreditation, and affiliation processes.
Participants will discuss various approaches to setting internal standards within their organizations, sharing successes, challenges, and emerging trends. As an outcome, AN will compile key takeaways and discussion points into a resource for everyone who attended.
Date: Thursday 14th November, 1.30PM GMT, 90 mins ( check timezones)
Strategic Action and Member Planning Sessions (members only event)
These sessions provide an opportunity for our members and stakeholders to directly influence our work for the upcoming year. We will identify priority areas based on our new strategy and plan activities that will benefit the AN membership.
We will hold two Action and Member Planning sessions in different time zones to ensure broad participation
Session Details:
Action and Member Planning #1
Tuesday, 29th October | 9:30 AM UTC+8 / 12:30 PM AEDT (see timezones)
(Ideal for colleagues based in Asia-Pacific or the West Coast of the Americas)Action and Member Planning #2
Friday, 1st November | 10:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM CET (see timezones)
(Ideal for colleagues based in Africa, Europe, or the East Coast of the Americas)
Postings and Opportunities
Artivist Proposals at CIVICUS, collaborating with Art Rights Truth
- An open call revolving around the theme “We are (for) civil society”
- Project based, remote
Applications close Sunday, September 15th
- To lead on TI’s global communications in order to substantially and effectively promote TI’s profile and brand at global level
- Full time, based in Berlin
- Starting date as soon as possible
- A “People and Culture Specialist” to serve on the international Board of Trustees and the People and Culture Committee
Volunteer, remote
Applications close Sunday, September 15th
Thematic Lead, Corrupt. at Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin
- The Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin is currently looking for a Thematic Lead, Corrupt Money Flows to join the Policy and Advocacy Team.
- Full time and starting as soon as possible
- Closing date for external applications is Sunday, 15 September, 23:59 CET
Past Events
Trust in Action: Flexible Funding at Global Fund for Children
This event provide a great opportunity to hear more about how funders and INGOs can operationalize flexible funding in trust-based philanthropy.
Organized by Global Fund for Children
Thursday, October 24
2:00-3:30 pm GMT/10:00-11:30 am EDT
Strategic Action and Member Planning Sessions (members only event)
These sessions provide an opportunity for our members and stakeholders to directly influence our work for the upcoming year. We will identify priority areas based on our new strategy and plan activities that will benefit the AN membership.
We will hold two Action and Member Planning sessions in different time zones to ensure broad participation
Session Details:
Action and Member Planning #1
Tuesday, 29th October | 9:30 AM UTC+8 / 12:30 PM AEDT (see timezones)
(Ideal for colleagues based in Asia-Pacific or the West Coast of the Americas)Action and Member Planning #2
Friday, 1st November | 10:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM CET (see timezones)
(Ideal for colleagues based in Africa, Europe, or the East Coast of the Americas)
Discover the events Accountable Now has to offer throughout the year - and see outcomes from our previous events.
Dynamic Accountability Dialogues
Accountable Now’s Dynamic Accountability Dialogues series brings practitioners, activists, funders, and other social sector actors together to discuss pressing issues, threats to CSO accountability, and innovations in practice in the development, humanitarian, and human rights fields. The Dialogues aim to level the playing field between small and large institutions and funders and CSOs by identifying speakers and presenters with rich and diverse voices, positions, and experiences and offering each an equal platform to express their opinions and share their lessons. To support continued conversations, Accountable Now works to pull together resources and cases exemplifying points from the various speakers and to broker partnerships and seed collective action in the field.
Information and outcomes from our past Dynamic Accountability Dialogues
For our Dynamic Accountability Dialogues: for Locally Led Development (held virtually May 22 – 24th 2023), Accountable Now brought together organisations, funders, foundations, and practitioners interested in advancing locally-led actions to discuss the importance of strengthening our accountability efforts to advance a kind of development that is collaborative, community-led, people-driven and equitable using Dynamic Accountability as the lever.
Dynamic Accountability underpins the ethos to our work at Accountable Now – it is an approach that is grounded in meaningful stakeholder engagement, specifically the people that we work for and with. This approach is not only about procedures; it is also about centring justice and equity, putting communities at the heart of our work, values-based decision-making, responsible leadership and much more.
Over three days, we brought together a diverse group of participants from different areas of the sector for a series of discussions on people-powered accountability during the sessions:
- Keynote Session: Accountability and People Power in Climate Finance
- Session 1: Dynamic Accountability in Practice
- Session 2: What is My Role in Locally Led Development
Recent global events, including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic, have disruptive for everyone. The pandemic completely shifted the way civil society organisations (CSOs) work, showing that a different way of working is possible. At the same time, there has been a global outcry against systemic racism and colonialist practices – signalling a clear need for further inclusion and equity, feminist approaches, and accountability, among others. What we need is a power-shift.
Accountability practices, when carried out in a horizontal, mutual, and continuous way, help organisations to redress power imbalances. Furthermore, accountability plays a huge role when it comes to tackling systemic challenges by ensuring that key values such as trust, inclusion, equity, flexibility remain at the core of organisations’ work. In this way, organisations are better placed to work towards more just and equal societies.
To do good, organisations can no longer be reactive, they must be proactive. They must be able to understand and assess current and future challenges. Accountable Now’s Dynamic Accountability Dialogue #2: Accountable Future was an interactive workshop that brought together many organisations to identify and brainstorm on the accountability needs of organisations in 2023.
Accountable Now believes that to be truly accountable and to redress power imbalances where we truly work in equitable partnerships, CSOs should be driven by their values, led by promoting and fighting for the protection of human rights, ensuring that principles of do-no-harm guide their program and project work and prioritising activities by sustainability values – but more ‘radically’ by constantly questioning their ways of working and approach (how) and by becoming actively anti-racist.
For our first Dynamic Accountability Dialogues (held virtually May 23 – 25 2022) organisations, practitioners and donors came together to discuss and exchange ideas on how to continue advancing their organisational accountability in different thematic areas. Participants had the opportunity to reflect on how accountability can help tackle the different issues that CSOs are experiencing due to their inherent structures and internal dynamics.
This Peer-to-Peer meeting aimed at encouraging horizontal dialogue, sharing experiences and learning between Accountable Now Members and other CSO representatives to achieve a collective and continuous growth.
Following up on the conversations held around diversity, equity, and inclusion, we hosted a webinar ‘Being Accountable: Our Different Journeys Toward Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Shifting Power‘ with the panelists:
- Jean Scrimgeour (Accountability Lab)
- Oriana Castillo (CIVICUS)
- Andres Gomez de la Torre (CARE Intl)
- Jay Goulden (CARE Intl)
- Panel facilitation: by Tina Ajuonuma (the Better Org)
