December 2010 Blog Posts (23)

Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report for 2010 released recently indicates a grim reality of corruption in Nepal which seems to be on

the up continuously. We have an active civil society, free media and

legislative oversight compared to other South Asian countries like Pakistan and

Bhutan; still we are…

The local bodies mobilize revenues, make allocations, carry out development works, deliver essential public services and monitor the use of funds ensuring the best quality of development works and services at the local level. But these very local bodies have been without elected people's representatives for the last eight consecutive years. The protracted vacuum of elected leadership has been creating manifold difficulties and challenges resulting in misuse and mismanagement of development…

December 25, 2010 (Kalika, Kaski): Under its regular Peace and Good Governance Program, Alternatives Nepal organized the Anti Corruption Seminar in Kalika VDC, Kaski on December 25, 2010. The objective of the Seminar on “Corruption and Youth Concern” was to motivate every youth toward anti corruption initiatives. All together 30 youth from Bhadrakali HSS, Janajyoti HSS, National HSS, Prithiwi Narayan Campus, Kanya Multiple Campus, Janapriya Multiple Campus representing different community…

Bulgaria and Romania did not yet meet the requirements for entering

the Europe's border-free Schengen area next year. Interior ministers from Germany and France criticized the lack of progress by the two southeastern EU countries in reforming their judiciary as well as tackling corruption and organized crime. Romania and Bulgaria both joined the European Union in 2007. Implementing the Schengen rules involves eliminating border controls with other Schengen members while…

Corruption is one of the most serious problems of the world today. It is prevalent in every society no matter how developed that society is except in

degree. In advanced countries it is less because the people there…

Kuala Lumpur, 23 September 2010 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Malaysian Anti Corruption Academy (MACA) are…

Dear GYAC members,

                              For those of you who missed the GYAC virtual conference that took place on 6th December here is the full recording of the event. We will come up with short edited versions of the conference in the future. Enjoy watching!

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Speaking of corruption there is a common miss perception that corruptive activities are strictly seen at pour countries, strictly seen at just certain vocations, strictly seen at certain times, but, if we analyze the synonyms for corruption: dishonesty, immorality, harm, fraud and…

Dear all,

I would like to share with you the Good Governance and Leadership training toolkit developed by LTA and Mercy Corps as part of one of our local projects.

مرحباً

أود أن أتشارك معكم دليل تدريب حول الحكم الصالح و القيادة للشباب، الذي تم بلورته في إطار مشروع للجمعية اللبنانية لتعزيز الشفافية و جمعية مرسي كور

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A forensic audit of the Kenyan Ministry of Education has established that 2583 employees were illegally recruited. A good number of them were sneaked in after confirmation of successful candidates had been done and their names published on the dailies. Most interesting thing is we Kenyans did not follow up to ensure that once the names are published then the same people get appointment letters. I firmly believe that the qualified candidates should have organized to report the scandal to the…

KATHMANDU: Nepal is one of the most corrupt countries in South Asia, according to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2010 published by the Transparency International on Tuesday.



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…

Dear GYAC Members,

               GYAC is launching its open competition today. This is an opportunity for like minded organizations to apply to be part of the GYAC family. Please share this opportunity with organizations that you work with and other youth organizations that you know of that are working on anti-corruption issues.

In addition, those of you who were part of the Brussels event and have not been active since then and are not confident of making it through to the…

check out this website http://www.eprc.or.ug/pdf_files/corruptiontrends.pdf Its the first annual ANTI-CORRUPTION report in Uganda using the DTM.I had the honor of being part of this report.

Uganda has released like 100 anti-corruption reports that have made no sense to the government.Every report seems to just show the rest of the world we are doing something about corruption but hey its our corruption and we decide when and what to do to change; in the meantime Donors this is where corruption is @ in Uganda.Atleast we tracked it down-Happy!!!!!!.

I swear i thought the ministers in the chogm report would be sucked or something for misuse of funds since it…