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Reimagining Citizens’ Demand for Accountability

📅 Panel Date: 9 October 2025 Reimagining Citizens’ Demand for Accountability How citizens can actively hold leaders—and themselves—accountable What does accountability really look like in today’s society? This powerful panel dives into the changing role of citizens in shaping governance and ensuring leaders remain answerable to the people they serve—while also recognizing accountability as a two-way responsibility. The discussion explores how everyday citizens, communities, and civil society can move beyond observation and actively influence decision-making, promote transparency, and demand ethical leadership. Panelists unpack key questions such as: • How can citizens effectively influence policy and governance? • What systems ensure leaders truly act in the public interest? • How do culture, law, media, and digital platforms amplify civic voices? Accountability is the foundation of a healthy society. When people are informed and empowered, governance becomes more transparent, justice more accessible, and leadership more ethical. This conversation is especially vital in contexts where civic voices are often sidelined, institutions lack transparency, or justice is delayed. Hosted within a human rights are Universal Arts festival Our panelists. Key themes include: • Citizens as Agents of Accountability – How individuals and communities can shape governance and demand transparency while remaining accountable themselves. • Accountability as a Two-Way System – Shared responsibility between leaders and citizens. • Tools & Mechanisms for Transparency – Legal, civic, and digital systems that strengthen oversight and open governance. • From Uganda to the World – Lessons and mechanisms that can promote transparent governance locally and globally. This panel is a call to action—reminding us that accountability starts with informed, engaged citizens and grows through collective effort, creativity, and courage. ▶️ Watch, reflect, and join the conversation.