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Water and profits in Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods

27 April 2011 in Africa and Middle East, TISDA, Water

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 […]

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World Water Day: Putting corruption in the picture

22 March 2011 in Poverty and development, Water

Like TI’s service delivery project mentioned in Francesc’s blog earlier today, the Water Integrity Network is also stepping up its work in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali. We are planning a training of trainers to better tackle corruption in the water sector. Last year we worked with Farm Radio International on radio […]

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World Water Day: tackling corruption key to better water services

22 March 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Poverty and development, TISDA, Water

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 […]

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

22 March 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Poverty and development, TISDA, Water

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 […]

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Non-cash payment solutions to avoid corruption

22 June 2010 in Technology, Water

Sometimes it’s the easy solutions that could turn out to be effective in reducing bribery and corruption. Take one of the most common forms of corruption: bribing the police (as found in the Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Barometer, the police is the institution people are most likely to bribe. Almost a quarter of people […]

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Climate Change, Water and Corruption

8 December 2009 in Climate Change, Water

This post has been written by Birke Otto of the Water Integrity Network, a global coalition stimulating anti-corruption activities in the water sector locally, nationally and globally. As the climate talks at the COP15 open with urgent calls for action, massive funds will be mobilized to manage climate change adaptation and mitigation. If not managed […]

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