November 2010 Blog Posts (48)

The Strength of Youth

Young people form 50% of the world population, with energy, vocal, beautiful, handsome and smart out look, within the same range are urgly, babaric, crafty and dangerous ones- that is not the issue the issue is that is the strength of youth. putting all that is one basket transport it to a refinery, mould and shape it well, it become superb and worthy. It may sound stupid rights now, give it a deep thought, read between the lines.

now look arround you, your community, country…

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Added by Wurie Mamadu Tamba Barrie on November 26, 2010 at 10:49am — 2 Comments

USE ICT to minimize Corruption in Nepal

In an interaction organized by Citizen Action (CA) in collaboration with different ICT endeavors. One of the prime ICT consultant, Mr. CP Adhikari, Managing Director of Eport International, believes that ICT can be used to inform, involve and empower people to control growing corruption in Nepal. He urge the government and politician to support young entrepreneurs to develop innovative tools and techniques through the use of ICT. For instances, the public… Continue

Added by Narayan Adhikari-Nepal on November 26, 2010 at 6:59am — 2 Comments

How to deal with Corruption in Cameroon (c) TrustLaw

I recently read this interesting interview on corruption in Cameroon and I thought to share with us. I hope it makes for good reading.
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/qa-how-to-deal-with-corruption-in-cameroon/

Added by Sanyi Emmanuel Sanyi on November 24, 2010 at 5:27pm — No Comments

about youth in the International Anticorruption Conferences

About the presence of youth in the different IACC that had been held. It is true that it had been reduced, but not completelly forgoten.



Ocasa had participated in four anticorruption conferences: Seoul 2003; Guatemala 2006; Athens 2008; and Bangkok 2010. In this four conferences, different scenarios for

young people had been open. I agree that is not enough and that some

times…

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Added by Gina Romero on November 21, 2010 at 2:18am — 2 Comments

Nepal is one of the most corrupt Country in South Asia-TI

With 2.2 scores, Nepal has fell three positions down this year and stood 146th among 180 countries. Last year, Nepal was on the 143rd rank. The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The 2010 CPI is based on 13 independent surveys. However, not all surveys include all countries, according to the TI. Afghanistan is the most corrupt South Asian country. The TI suggested that the decline in… Continue

Added by Narayan Adhikari-Nepal on November 20, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

BUILDING A CORRUPT-FREE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

As part of my quest to combat corruption in my country Nigeria, I conducted a 3-day workshop for Youths in New Bussa a rural community in Niger state of Nigeria between Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th of November 2010. This event coincidentally ran concurrently with the 14th International…

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Added by Babafemi Oyediran on November 19, 2010 at 1:22pm — 6 Comments

The Youth As Anti-Corruption Ambassadors

So the organizers of the 14IACC posted a YOUTH CHALLENGE where they invited young people from the world over to upload a video in which they voice their anti-corruption messages to the world leaders who are attending the conference. I don't know how many videos were submitted and received, but they were able to screen one video from a Vietnamese student during the closing plenary session.



Our Global Youth… Continue

Added by Joseph Mansilla on November 18, 2010 at 8:09am — 2 Comments

Problem of Corruption and Control Mechanism in Nepal

Like many other countries, corruption has been a big problem in Nepal. It is the major obstacle to economic and political reforms, accountability, transparency and good governance. Corruption has trickled into both private and public sectors, and into almost all walks of life. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) is a supreme constitutional body for corruption control. It is the distinctive anti-corruption agency in South Asia. It has the role of an ombudsman,…

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Added by Samundra Paudel on November 18, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

PROPOSALS

Dear Excellent GYAC-N Friends,



Now that we, GYAC-N representatives at the 14IACC, are all back home, we are now getting busy writing our reports on the conference and turning what we learned into action with our respective organizations and involvements. But before that, I have two proposals I want to present to all of you:



1. AN EMAIL NEWSLETTER



On the last day of the IACC, we drafted a Bangkok Declaration of Young People and invited the conference participants… Continue

Added by Joseph Mansilla on November 17, 2010 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

World Bank asks Uganda's president to fire his Corrupt ministers

Kampala

President Museveni should take “administrative action” against ministers named in abuse of Chogm funds, the World Bank country chief said yesterday.

Ms Kadiresan Kundavi said the government does not have to wait for long court processes to act against those named in corruption. “We would like to see administrative action taken as Parliament continues to debate the report,” Ms Kundavi said in reference to the parliamentary…

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Added by Gerald on November 16, 2010 at 9:23am — No Comments

GYAC-Tanzania At the Stage of Kicking Off.

The fact that ant corruption struggles in Tanzania have the bearing of civil societies’ efforts,

it is true that these civil societies have no a vibrant touch in these

movements and also have no the recognition of youth power on it. The civil societies have been represented in the National strategy for preventing and combating…

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Added by Deogratias Munishi on November 15, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Youth Demand To Have A Say In Fighting Corruption

Most corrupt countries have a large proportion of youth in the population. A big number of anti-corruption efforts are already operating in those states and there are surely more to come, but in most cases, youth seem to be left out of the fighting rings.



The members of Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network and young people participating in the 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference could not just sit and wait to be older to join the ranks.



They say, or even SHOUT,… Continue

Added by Bunga Manggiasih on November 15, 2010 at 2:32pm — No Comments

Ocasa's Tweets on the closing plenary where the youth engagement was a main topic.

Ocasajovenes 5:21am via HootSuite

Some barriers that obstacle active participation must be destroy. Youth are challenging us using new techologies.…

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Added by Gina Romero on November 13, 2010 at 11:25am — No Comments

IMPUTS FROM THE PEOPLE'S EMPOWERMENT SESSION

was asked to prepare some imputs from the people's empowerment sessions to be presented on the closing

sessions. At the last minute the rules changed but here is the

document that was prepared.…



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Added by Gina Romero on November 13, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Bangkok Youth Declaration

Bangkok Declaration of Young People

14th International Anti Corruption…

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Added by Narayan Adhikari-Nepal on November 13, 2010 at 8:58am — 2 Comments

The Transparency international intergrity Award_ Solidarity

This award ceremony was the peak of the Friday 13th gala dinner! The awards were presented to three ordinary men whose actions in the fight against corruption were extra ordinary . The three men were from Russia, Sri lanka and Gabon , unfortuntely only one of the three was present, one was in exile and for security reason could not be present and the other one was awared post humus and the award presented to the mother.

As the awards were being presented and the participants…

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Added by pauline wanja on November 13, 2010 at 8:45am — No Comments

US President's Forum with Young African Leaders, August 2010 Washington DC.



Between August 3-5, 2010, on the invitation of US President Barack Obama, 120 youth leaders from around 47 countries in Africa meet with President Barack Obama as part of events marking 50 years of independence of over 17 African countries.



GYAC-N member was invited from Cameroon with two other youth colleagues to join President Obama and other African Youth Leaders to discuss Africa's development issues 50years after independence while… Continue

Added by Sanyi Emmanuel Sanyi on November 13, 2010 at 4:17am — 1 Comment

Corruption in water sector is a real threat to efforts against climate change

'Climate Change Adaptation means investing in water sector'

This front message is neither for advertisement nor for joke, but expresses the urgency that countries and the international community as a whole have to invest in the water sector if they want to fight climate change efficiently. This is justify by the fact that water is one of the first domains that will suffer from climate change effects and will threaten human lives. This will be through the…

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Added by GABI WAMBO LAURENT on November 12, 2010 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Climate change should be address without ignoring Human Rights.

Climate change should be address without ignoring Human Rights. What comes First….Corruption creates Climate Change or Climate Change create Corruption……

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Added by Narayan Adhikari-Nepal on November 12, 2010 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

Debt and Corruption

As a Filipino citizen, I, like every other Filipino, have a debt of more or less $ 1,000 to different multinational organizations. There are about 90 million Filipinos now.



As of 2007, the Philippines has outstanding total public sector debt of $ 110 billion. Our government chose to honor debts even of corrupt past administrations. Thus, about 25% of our national budget is…

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Added by marlon cornelio on November 12, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

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