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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Speed-dating EU transparency: EU Parliament hearing on access to EU documents

15 April 2011 in Access to information, European Union

European Parliament (flickr) / Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 Sitting in Wednesday’s EU Parliament hearing on the topic of access to EU documents and freedom of information felt a little like policy speed dating. 15 external speakers and more short interventions from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) – although embarrisingly few MEPs were present in the […]

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Towards a New Press Law for Tunisia

15 April 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Human rights, People power

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 […]

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Transparency International in Tunisia

8 April 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Human rights, People power, Politics and government

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 […]

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Political Parties in Kosovo fail the transparency test

5 April 2011 in Europe and Central Asia, Measurement and Research, Politics and government

Money, like elections, is an inherent part of multi-party democracy. However, if not transparent, money in politics carries equally inherent risks of corruption. Transparency in political financing allows civil society to monitor party and candidate spending and spot and potentially stop funding coming from corrupt or suspicious sources. Elections – as the most political and […]

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Good Act, deplorable guidance

4 April 2011 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Lobbying, Private sector

Robert Barrington is Director of External Affairs at Transparency International UK The UK has had a long wait for a law that is compliant with the 1997 OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and this week the Government finally announced that the 2010 Bribery Act will come into force in July. It is a good law, and builds […]

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How Are You Changing the Rules of the Game?

31 March 2011 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, People power

Looking back at Bangkok Last November, the 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference took place in Bangkok. It brought together civil society, the private and public sectors, academics and about 130 journalists from 123 countries to discuss the challenges facing the world today. If you were not able to get to Bangkok, you do not have to […]

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Thoughts on civil society involvement, scandals, and the next EU elections

25 March 2011 in European Union

Earlier this year we presented our analysis on transparency in the financing of Europarties to the European Parliament – see the blog post and the discussion paper thereon. When we presented this expertise in Parliament, several deputies reacted offended by the link we drew between political finance and corruption, as if such could not happen in EU politics. […]

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Mind the gap! MEPs must tighten up their act

24 March 2011 in European Union, Lobbying, Politics and government

Picture: stevecadman (flickr) || Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 Recent allegations that three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) accepted the promise of payments to table amendments on behalf of individuals posing as a ‘lobbying firm’ must instigate strong reforms at the European Parliament. It is far more difficult to investigate and successfully prosecute allegations of […]

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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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