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UNDP and UNODC in their committment  are continuing to mobilize public and strengthen state and non-state actors' commitment to address corruption through International Anti-Corruption Day Campaigns. Therefore, UNDP and UNODC want to engage youth across the world, through an open competition, to choose 2013's International Anti-Corruption Day campaign theme and logo.

 

A Call for Designing 2013 International Anti-Corruption Day Campaign Theme and Logo is henceforth launched and…

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How critical it can be in a country where human rights threats and corruption coexist. No doubt that Human Rights violations will be caused or/and amplified by Corruption and worst again, Corruption won’t allow that Violator should be punished adequately. What we conclude is that “Corruption is at the beginning and the end of most of the situations that constitute threats to Human Rights”.

This is the summary of the lesson that we can take out a document titled “Annual Report on the…

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The UNODC is organizing a training which will be held from 9 to 12 October 2012 in Laxenburg, Austria. This session will target African NGOs from countries to be reviewed in the third and fourth year of the…

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“Corruption is a social scourge” it is always said, and you can’t fight against this scourge effi-ciently in a social context where there is no legal framework to guide and sustain your efforts. This is the reason why the UN came to put in place the UNCAC which provisions have to be im-plemented by all the State Parties, and each State party is called by virtue of provisions contained in the Chapter III of the convention titled “Criminalization and law enforcement” requesting to “… adopt such… Continue

Hello dear all, are you interested to know what efforts are being made by the UNCAC by States parties to implement the Convention?

Follow up the activities leaading to the third session of the Implementation Review Group (IRG) that will take place in Vienna (Austria) as from the 18 of June to 22nd , at particularly the NGO's briefing scheduled for the 20 of june.

 

You can log on: www unodc.org, or www.uncac-coalition.org and…

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Hello dear all,

This is a call for tender that we've launch to implement our project "Youth Tracking Decentralization in Cameroon"

Pls feel free to share this information with some ICT engeneering companies who may be interested to work with us in Cameroon to make this youth ambition being a reality.

 

Click on this link to view the call document…

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"YOUTH TRACKING DECENTRALIZATION IN CAMEROON” is a project concept which has been initiated and is being implemented in Cameroon by GABI WAMBO LAURENT, a Global Changemaker from the global Youth Anti-corruption Network. The project in general seeks to promote good governance through transparency and a participatory decision making process in the management of municipal councils which have become under the newly adopted decentralized system in Cameroon, the national entities charged with the…

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Hello fellow GYACers,

As you may all know, this week long, the 4th Conference of states parties to the UN-Convention Against Corruption is taking place in Marrakesh (MOROCCO). Let's wacht out and see how youth Interests will taken into account by the international community during this edition of the conference.

 

As we are following the conference, if one fellow GYACer is participating in the conference, please let us know so that we can connect and debate some of the…

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It’s really a pity when youths are used to perform acts of corruption whereas we all know how bad corruption can jeopardise youth’s future.

On Sunday, the 9^th of October 2011, Cameroonians were called out for the presidential election. Your fellow GYACer was accredited as a National Observer; and I went out to observe how our democracy is moving forward. Some of the acts that I witnessed from my fellow young compatriots were unbelievable. In a context where we are…

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Hello everyone.

As you all know in this network, it is henceforth obvious that we can't fight Corruption in a country without implicating the youth into the process as young men are corrupted, their are corrupting, they are the most affected by corruption effects and are great ressources in the fight.

 

Cameroon government has understood this and in the ongoing process of the elaboration of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy in Cameroon, youth sector among others…

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If youths work hard and make proof of their competences, they will soon be real actors of the fight against corruption in their countries.

This statement can be justify by the case of Cameroon where a GYAC-N member has been called to show new orientation of civil society engagement in the fight against corruption as debated during the 14th IACC held in Bangkok spring November 2010.



Last January 06th, 2011, the Cameroon National Anti-Corruption Commission in partnership with the… Continue

Scheduled for January 06th, 2011, the National Workshop on the Bangkok 14th IACC restitution in Cameroon is to hold at the Yaoundé Conference center under the initiative and supervision of the UNDP anti-corruption program in Cameroon “CHOC” and the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

The workshop that will bring together representatives from the State anti-Corruption Agencies in Cameroon, those from the technical and financial partners of the State and from the civil society, aims at… Continue

'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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"Corruption is conflict Amplifier"

This may sound funny to many profanes.



But, the members of the GYAC-N present here in Bangkok this week for the 14th IACC conference understand the deepeness of this statement which expresses the level of truel effects that corruption can have in a… Continue

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"Corruption Exhacerbes poverty"



There seems to be no doubt on this statement as demonstrated in the speech of the Prime minister of Thailand during the opening session of the 14th International anti-corruption Conference in Bangkok this morning.



Young man, don't make illusion in your mind by thinking that with corruption, you will get out of poverty. This is just a mirage since you don't evaluate the consequences of… Continue