July 2010 Blog Posts (12)

Report of a Workshop for Civil Society Organisations involved in the fight against Corruption, organised by Zero Corruption Coalition, (ZCC) Lagos, December 11-12, 2008 By Babatope Babalob

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Added by Ogaga E. Maxwell on July 24, 2010 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Cameroon: Fight against Corruption, Elaborating a strategy

Last time i was talking about the Choc Project in Cameroon. With the national anti-corruption commission, this project has launch the elaboration of a strategy on the fight against corruption.

Since two weeks there are severals seminars workshops on the subject through the country.

The aims of those workshop is to come out in many areas with a kind of situation of corruption in order to know what are the corruption practises in those areas: like…

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Added by Makondo Emmanuel on July 23, 2010 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

The Youth Charter on Combating Corruption

Dear all,

Hope this finds you all well.

I am attaching the youth charter to fight corruption, omsar.pdf that was developed by the UNODC and the Lebanese Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform.

Best,

Raghda

Added by Raghda Allouche on July 22, 2010 at 2:56pm — No Comments

Tanzania Youth Vision Association (TYVA) on the move to launch a Youth Manifesto in 2010 Tanzania General Election

TYVA, a youth led organization in Tanzania is on the way to launch Youth Manifesto in the upcoming 2010 Tanzania general election. The manifeasto will be the product of the 26th June 2010 Dialogue organized by TYVA that brought youths from various fields in the country to discuss the Tanzania needed after 2010 election from the youth parspective.

The dialogue which was blessed to have one the renowned professors in Tanzania, Issa…

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Added by Deogratias Munishi on July 20, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Towards A Corruption-Free Kupang (and Indonesia)

Hendrik Bera, a 16 years student from Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, fell silent in his chair in the seminar room of Komunitas Salihara. The young man had just heard his hometown named as the most corrupt cities in Indonesia.

"From the 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index survey, Kupang is considered the most corrupt city in Indonesia," said Deputy Secretary General of Transparency International Indonesia Rezki Wibowo in a session of Indonesian Youth Conference (IYC), Komunitas… Continue

Added by Bunga Manggiasih on July 18, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Kenya-anti-corruption-documentary

On Tuesday night July 13th Tranasparency international Kenya in Conjunction with A24 media launched a documentary that traces historical journey of corruption in Kenya from post colonial period titled, Kikulacho" the Bite…

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Added by pauline wanja on July 16, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

IACC International Anti-Corruption Conference

Attention young researchers!! The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) is inviting submissions from young researchers for its first ever research paper competition. The author of the winning paper will receive a scholarship to attend the 14th IACC in Bangkok. Deadline for submissions is 20 August 2010. Please write to Farzana Nawaz at fnawaz@transparency.org for more details on the competition.

Added by Anna Thai on July 15, 2010 at 9:59am — 2 Comments

What can we do (Gyacers) to mitigate corruption?

First and foremost, i believe since we have returned home from Brussls we should identify the key corruption issues affecting our various nations and continents. Let us be serious if voices are to be heard. In that light, we need to engage seriously base upon our thematics groups. Let us think of which continent should host the secretariat, develop action plan, assigned tasks and responsibilities among tasks force members, constructive engagement of donor partners like World Bank, British… Continue

Added by Foday Ahmed Sillah on July 14, 2010 at 6:15pm — 2 Comments

AFRICAN LEADERS AND CORRUPTION

It is common knowledge that Africa has been rendered a fail continent by her leaders, despite immense resources it carries. Poor governance has been our greatest undoing. Part of the problem eminates from the governed since we tend to glorify those in power in total disregard of their actions. We tend to look at other things that connect us to the corrupt leaders key among them being: tribe, religion, race etc. In as long as the corrupt leader is one of our own other things can wait since it is… Continue

Added by JUMA YUSUF HAINENI on July 13, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

How can the govrnment be playing so many games.

Today i took to the street. Yep! i took a placard and a political vuvuzela (whistle) and joined the other tax payers and marched to the parliament building.

Members of our 10th parliament are passing a law that will enable them to increase their salaries from $10,000 to $15,000 per month and daily sitting allowance from $62.5 to $125. And worse when the minister of finance said there was no money they threatened to shoot down any motion he tabled on parliament. Attempt by the same… Continue

Added by pauline wanja on July 9, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Uganda government officials top new Corruption List

Government officials digging their hand into the till to directly pull out public funds remains the top form of corruption, the Inspectorate of government has said in a new report. At 19.4 percent of complaints recorded at the IGG, mismanagement and misappropriation of public resources is the most reported form of corruption.

Ugandans also view and complain about non-payment of salaries at 18.7 per cent, followed by abuse of office at 17.8 per cent, delays in delivery of services, which…

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Added by Gerald on July 9, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

The" QUIET Corruption": how can we fight against?

Last week I read a report on the Quiet corruption. See HERE

i didn't know what it was about before my reading.But know i thinks this other kind of corruption need to be fight seriously. It is so dangerous as the active corruption. His impact on our social and economics development is enormous.

-learn people…

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Added by Makondo Emmanuel on July 5, 2010 at 1:50pm — No Comments