Archive | Africa and Middle East RSS feed for this section
Dadaab refugee camp

Addressing corruption risks in climate change mitigation and food assistance programmes – TI Kenya

by Nicolas Seris, Humanitarian Aid programme coordinator, Transparency International Kenya. Yesterday Roslyn wrote about climate change and natural disasters. This is particularly relevant in Kenya, where Transparency International Kenya and World Vision International hosted the regional launch of the TI Pocket Guide of Good Practices for Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations on April 14, 2011 […]

Read full story Comments { 0 }
Cobus de Swardt speaking

The 1989 effect: Accountability driving demands for change

Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director of TI, writes from Cape Town where he is attending the Africa regional meeting of the World Economic Forum At WEF Davos in January, the beginning of the revolution in North Africa was on everybody’s lips. Four months on in Cape Town, you can see from the ideas being put […]

Read full story Comments { 1 }

Water and profits in Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods

It is difficult to believe that someone living on less than a dollar day in a Nairobi slum can pay more for the use of water than their counterparts living in the city’s affluent residential areas. A worrying trend has emerged from the Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa (TISDA) programme water sector […]

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Towards a New Press Law for Tunisia

This post was written by Toby Mendel, founder and president of the Centre for Law and Democracy. The revolution is underway in Tunisia and there is a wonderful feeling that anything can be done in terms of securing freedom of expression and other human rights. The bad guys are out, the good guys are in […]

Read full story Comments { 1 }

Transparency International in Tunisia

Tunisia’s post-revolution spring has brought joy and genuine empowerment to the Tunisian people, but as the extent of corruption and abuse of power is revealed, a sense of bitterness and bewilderment at how a system could fail so utterly, is emerging in the Tunisian society. The issue now is not retribution but reconstruction of a […]

Read full story Comments { 5 }

World Water Day: tackling corruption key to better water services

Since 1992, 22 March has been World Water Day. In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly declared that clean drinking water is a fundamental human right. Yet millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa still have no access to clean water. Lack of integrity and low performance of water utilities and informal service providers can jeopardise […]

Read full story Comments { 3 }

Journee internationale de l’eau: s’attaquer a la corruption pour de meilleurs services dans le domaine de l’eau

Depuis 1992, le 22 mars est la journée internationale de l’eau. En 2010, l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a déclaré que l’accès à l’eau potable faisait partie des droits de l’homme fondamentaux. Pourtant plusieurs millions d’individus en Afrique subsaharienne n’y ont toujours pas accès. Le manque d’intégrité et les mauvaises performances des services et fournisseurs […]

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Oil wealth and revolution

Today Transparency International publishes its report on the transparency of oil and gas companies. The report shows that the majority of companies do not reveal payments to governments in countries where the extract oil and gas. A good example for what this means in practice is Libya: A quarter of the country’s economy come from […]

Read full story Comments { 3 }

Anti-corruption Day 2010: Talking about corruption is talking about our lives!

Today is Anti-Corruption Day, created in 2003 by the United Nations to raise awareness of corruption and of the role of the UN Convention against Corruption in combating and preventing it. But when we refer to corruption, what do we talk about? What does it mean for people’s lives? Looking at it closely, we don’t […]

Read full story Comments { 11 }

Securing sustainable development outcomes through good governance and transparency

Read more about transparency and aid below: Haiti: Two years after the earthquake, corruption dogs reconstruction efforts Publish What You Fund: Are Aid Donors Walking their Own Talk? International Aid Transparency Initiative: As the world debates aid, the US puts its aid money out into the public To illustrate how public sector corruption impacts on […]

Read full story Comments { 17 }