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Announcing the 2023 International Corruption Hunters Alliance Forum Youth Delegation

Written by Katie Fuhs and Zeina Walet Next month, front-line anti-corruption actors will gather at the Fifth International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) Forum in Abidjan to share their knowledge and experiences of the challenges, risks, and opportunities for advancing anti-corruption efforts. To ensure a diversity of generational perspectives, the World Bank Group has asked Accountability Lab to put together a youth delegation that will participate and present their ideas at the Forum.  To that end, the Lab is happy to present the 2023 ICHA Youth Delegation. From investigators to creatives, this group of 19 youth delegates from 14 countries across [...]

2023-06-14T07:07:18+00:002nd June 2023|

Annonce de la délégation de jeunes du Forum International de l’Alliance des chasseurs de corruption 2023

Rédigé par Katie Fuhs et Zeina Walet Le mois prochain, les acteurs en première ligne de la lutte contre la corruption se réuniront lors du cinquième Forum de l'Alliance internationale des chasseurs de corruption (ICHA) à Abidjan pour partager leurs connaissances et leurs expériences sur les défis, les risques et les opportunités de faire progresser les efforts de lutte contre la corruption. Afin de garantir la diversité des perspectives générationnelles, le Groupe de la Banque mondiale a demandé à Accountability Lab de constituer une délégation de jeunes qui participeront et présenteront leurs idées au Forum.  À cette fin, le Lab [...]

2023-06-12T09:50:02+00:002nd May 2023|

United States Launches New Project to Help Reduce Corruption in Uganda

The United States Mission in Uganda, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), today launched the Strengthening Systems and Public Accountability project to support actions to improve the Government of Uganda’s accountability to its citizens and decrease the corruption that impedes economic growth and development, and that negatively affects the quality of life of ordinary Ugandans.  The five-year project aims to strengthen accountability, deepen public participation in and oversight of public institutions and social services, and reduce corruption in public service sectors. “We want every Ugandan to be able to access public services without paying a bribe, so that [...]

2022-05-08T22:34:46+00:005th May 2022|

Each bribe-paying Nigerian loses N28,200 annually – Accountability Lab

A global anti-corruption organisation, Accountability Lab Nigeria, has expressed concerns over the level of corruption in the procurement and contracting processes in the country. The group said this had resulted in the loss of billions of dollars by the country, stressing that bribe-paying Nigerians spend an average of N28,200 annually on cash bribes. The group’s Country Director, Odeh Friday, stated this during an integrity conference organised by Accountability Lab in Abuja, according to a statement he personally signed on Saturday. The statement read in part, “Unethical practices and the cost of corruption in procurement/contracting processes and service delivery has led [...]

2022-04-12T12:06:35+00:003rd April 2022|

Accountability Lab, BPSR, Decry Vote Buying, Corruption

Accountability Lab Nigeria and the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) have decried the rise in vote buying, saying embezzlement, bribery, and electoral fraud remain huge forms of corrupt practices in Nigeria. This was disclosed during an Integrity Conference held in Abuja yesterday, geared toward an interactive solution-oriented workshop for public servants to support the development of a culture of integrity within government, as one of the knowledge building tools to influence norms and change behaviours through practical learning scenarios such as case studies of role models and trendsetters, in this case, Integrity Icons. The country director, Accountability Lab, Odeh [...]

2022-04-03T12:39:48+00:001st April 2022|

Public Trust and the Nigerian Police: The Abba Kyari Story

The recent suspension of the once-celebrated police officer, Abba Kyari, on suspicion of links to an international fraudster, has set off a tidal wave of socio-political debate. Lack of trust in the police was already a widely accepted consensus among Nigerians prior to this latest indictment, owing to many reports of corruption, ineptitude, and impunity. The country is still sour from the nationwide #EndSARS protests against police brutality; even more so from the grim Lekki tollgate shootings that followed. Nowadays, many citizens no longer look to the nation’s security apparatus for protection, but rather pray not to encounter them in [...]

2021-08-25T13:00:06+00:0025th August 2021|

ICPC pledges to sustain new ethics, integrity in fight against corruption

THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it will sustain the new National Ethics and Integrity Policy, which is geared towards changing many Nigerians’ mindsets and preventing them from engaging in corruption. The commission launched the new policy to reduce corruption in public and private spheres in Nigeria. ICPC spokesperson Azuka Ogugua made this known during a radio programme, ‘Public Conscience,’ produced by the Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development (PRIMORG) on Wednesday in Abuja. Ogugua, while reassuring that the sustainability of the policy was of paramount interest to the commission, disclosed that plans were on the [...]

2021-03-26T10:28:08+00:0025th March 2021|

Contribution du Accountability Lab Niger à la lutte contre la corruption au Niger

En ce 21e siècle, l’humanité fait face à beaucoup de défis colossaux qui sont devenus chroniques et structurels. Parmi ceuxci on peut citer la corruption qui est le principal obstacle au développement économique et social dans le monde. La corruption est la perversion ou le détournement d’un processus ou d’une interaction avec une ou plusieurs personnes dont le dessein, pour le corrupteur est d’obtenir des avantages ou des prérogatives particulières ou, pour le corrompu est d’obtenir une rétribution en échange de sa complaisance. Elle conduit en général à l’enrichissement personnel du corrompu ou à l’enrichissement de l’organisation corruptrice. (Wikipedia) Chaque [...]

2021-03-30T13:21:17+00:009th December 2020|

Can social entrepreneurs achieve community immunity against corruption? 

By Michael Seo  In the United States, we tend to think of corruption as the exception rather than the norm. However, in some of the most impoverished settings in frontier markets, the reality is different but so are the market dynamics as social entrepreneurship flourishes. So we ask, how can social entrepreneurs nudge markets toward transparency and integrity in contexts where ethical behaviour, transparency and governance are anomalies? The consequences of corruption are immense and indisputable. Inversely, so are the benefits of trustworthy systems. Research from the IMF, “The Cost of Corruption”, suggests that countries perceived to be less corrupt [...]

2020-10-02T07:47:12+00:001st October 2020|

Corruption is rife in the COVID-19 era. Here’s how to fight back

The pandemic has created conditions in which corruption can flourish; This can exacerbate and prolong the negative effects of this crisis; Here are three ways to start tackling this issue today. By Tim Hanstad. The global pandemic has public health experts and medical providers around the world working overtime. And so, it seems, are profiteers. Even before the pandemic, an estimated $455 billion of the $7.35 trillion spent annually on healthcare worldwide was lost to fraud and corruption. Today, as governments are ramping up pandemic response spending to unprecedented levels and shovelling it out of the door with understandable urgency and desperation, [...]

2020-07-16T10:43:17+00:0016th July 2020|
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