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Jonas Mbwangue

Jonas Mbwangue is an economic policy specialist with more than 17 years of experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of development projects, programs, and policies, particular in the sectors of agriculture, health, and environment. Currently, Mbwangue is the Lead Technical Advisor of French President Emmanuel Macron's Initiative for Health in Africa, implemented by Expertise France of the Agence Francaise de Developpement Group. Since 2019, he has provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso in the development of its new national health development plan 2021-2030 and in the development of a health financing strategy. Prior to joining Expertise France, Mbwangue worked with Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, DC, as a Senior Program Officer in charge of supporting Cameroon, Mali, and Senegal in the implementation of a sustainable financing strategy for their national immunization programs. Jonas also worked for more than eight years as a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC where he contributed to the design of capacity building programs on land reform policies and sustainable land and natural capital management, as well as operational projects for the rehabilitation of agriculture in Burundi and the promotion of gender inclusive productive alliances, climate change, and nutrition projects in Cameroon. In his native Cameroon, Jonas was Executive Director of the Cameroon National Association for Family Welfare, a family planning and reproductive health non-governmental organization member of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), present in 180 countries around the world. Mbwangue holds a Master of Public Administration in economic policy management obtained in 2004 at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University in the city of New York.
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Bridging Gaps in Education: How Constructive Engagement Revitalized School Communities in Ghana

The use of innovative approaches and constructive engagement resulted in demonstrable improvements to education service delivery in the Upper West Region of Ghana within the context of a social accountability project, according to the project managers.

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SEXTORTION: A Crucial Global Humanitarian-Corruption Challenge

On July 1, 2020, the Partnership for Transparency (PTF) and the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) hosted experts from Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States in a 90-minute conversation on one of the worst forms of corruption. Nancy Hendry of the International Association of Women Judges began using the term “Sextortion” a number of years ago to bring attention to practice of women being sexually exploited by corrupt actors, primarily men in positions of power. She joined a panel of experts to discuss the topic, including Francisca Chinelo Ekwonu, founder of New Girl on Campus; Dr. Ortum Merkel of the United Nations University; Marie Chêne, Research Director at Transparency International; Dena Shayne of the Amara Legal Center and Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Just Corps Fellow; and Nancy Hendry of the International Association of Women Judges. Indira Sandilya, a Senior Adviser at the PTF and Board Member of the Partnership for Transparency India also contributed to the conversation.

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Anti Corruption Forum: SEXTORTION

1 in 5 people experience Sextortion or know someone who has -- Latin American TI Barometer 2019 Recommended viewing BBC EYE ON AFRICA Sex for Grades: Undercover inside Nigerian and Ghanaian universities This remarkable BBC undercover investigation in Nigeria provides first-person accounts. Universities in Nigeria and Ghana have been plagued by stories of sexual harassment by lecturers and professors for decades. The UNA-NCA and PTF Anti Corruption Forum present a special virtual global discussion on SEXTORTION in developing and emerging market countries - and indeed in our own communities How acute is the Sextortion issue? What must we do to counter Sextortion? Sex + Corruption = Sextortion The abuse of power to obtain sexual favors – specific demands by men in power of sex in return for, for example, obtaining a job, getting a passing college grade, ensuring safe passage as a migrating refugee, obtaining vital official documents. What all the victims have in common is that they are in situations where they have few means to secure legal, or community support and recourse – making them all the more vulnerable. Please join outstanding experts from Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States in a 90-minute conversation on one of the worst forms of corruption. Guest experts include: Dr. Ortrun Merkle, Researcher, United Nations University, Graduate School of Governance. Author of doctoral work: The Myth of Gender-Neutral Power: Corruption and Gender Norms. December 2018. Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowob, Executive Director, Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER). TIME 100 NEXT Honouree, 2019 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year. 2019 Africa & Europe Winner, Commonwealth Award for Excellence in Development Work, 2018 British Council Future Leaders, Connect Member, 2018 Obama Foundation Fellow in Africa. Francisca Chinelo Ekwonu, founder of “New Girl On Campus (NGOC),” official at the Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE), Lagos, Nigeria. Nancy Hendry – International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), Washington DC – a leading authority and writer on the challenges of sextortion. Marie Chêne, Transparency International, Berlin, Research Director – TI recently published: Breaking the Silence around Sextortion: The Links between Power, Sex and Corruption. Dena Shayne, Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Justice Corps Fellow at the Amara Legal Center in Washington DC. “I view Sextortion as the single most challenging area for anti-corruption reform and arguably the single most pervasive form of corruption across the world,” - Frank Vogl, Chair, PTF Board of Directors on PassBlue.
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PTF enters 2020 with 4 new projects totaling nearly $1 million USD

PTF is delighted to report on the initiation of four new projects in the past three months valued together at more than $ 1 million.

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PTF Signs Grant Agreement with IDRF and YSD to Expand Health Transparency Initiative in India

The India Development Relief Fund (IDRF) has partnered with PTF to play a leading role in three Health Transparency Initiatives (HTIs) in India. The first, a Quality Improvement of Public Health Services in Thrissur, Kerala, India is being implementing by the CSO, Jananeethi, over 3 years (2018- 2020). The first year of the project is being supported by a grant of $28,000, of which, $20,500 is being provided by the IDRF and $7,500 is being provided by PTF. This project will: (a) support community engagement with local governments and public health clinics for greater transparency and improvement services; (b) help government mandated Hospital Management Committees provide more effective oversight; and (c) establish and put into operation an independent community body – a Health Watch Committee to hold duty bearers accountable. The second initiative is focusing on Improving Maternal and Child Health Care Services (MCH) through Citizen Engagement in Odisha State. This project, approved in March 2019, will be the first phase (2019-2020) of a longer-term program and is made possible by the continued partnership of the IDRF and PTF. The IDRF is granting the majority of the funding for the Initiative ($36,000, 64% of the total) and PTF is contributing $14,000 (25%). The Indian CSO, Youth for Social Development (YSD), is implementing the project on the ground and contributing 11% of the total cost. The Initiatives objectives are: (a) to enable beneficiaries to constructively engage with authorities and demand better quality and more accountable MCH services; (b) to develop a community score card process and other social accountability tools for MCH services; and (c) to collaborate with researchers on improving outcomes under SDG-3 (health), SDG-5 (gender) and SDG-16 (governance) through citizen engagement. A third project for “Reducing the Maternal and infant Mortality Through Community Participation and Civic Monitoring” in Rajasthan State, India, is at the concept stage.

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Barry Metzger Rule of Law Initiative

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM FLYER (701 KB) Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) founder Barry Metzger worked tirelessly to promote justice in some of the world’s poorest countries. The “Rule of Law Initiative” bearing his name is designed to respect the humanitarian and legal values that Mr. Metzger promoted throughout his life as General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank, a distinguished lawyer in private practice and Board Member of PTF. Everyday, tens of millions of poor people in developing countries face extortion that violates their dignity. Barry Metzger was quietly driven to volunteer with PTF, as are the Advisers that continue his work, because he understood these devastating impacts were in large part a result of weak rule-of-law. The ambition behind the Barry Metzger Rule of Law Initiative is to contribute to the development of more transparent and predictable government institutions. Through the Metzger Initiative, PTF supports citizen-led action in developing countries to make governments transparent, accountable and free of corruption by strengthening civil society institutions and developing the next generation of leaders advancing good governance and rule-of-law. Metzger Initiative Projects Regional Gender-Based Violence Legal Training The Metzger Initiative partnered with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and the Hogan Lovells law firm to deliver a training program for licensed advocates and CSOs to increase their capacity to represent clients in cases involving gender-based violence and discrimination [...] Review23 - Regional Rule of Law Network in the Western Balkans ReView23, founded in 2015, is a regional network of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Western Balkans (Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro) which share common goals linked to the rule of law, specifically to judicial reform. The long-range vision for the Network is to strengthen the rule of law in fighting corruption to bring about judicial and human rights reform in the region [...]   Regional Trial Monitoring Program in Eastern Europe In order to ensure that the law is being properly applied in the courtroom, the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) in Serbia partnered with the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to develop a regional trial monitoring program [...]  
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Andrew Wells

Expertise: Data Analysis, Infrastructure, and Procurement

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Poverty Alleviation Fund 2 (PAF-2)

Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF-2) is a development project funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Poverty Alleviation Fund in Nepal. The project’s objective is to improve living conditions and empower the rural poor, with particular attention to groups that have been excluded based on gender, ethnicity, caste or geographical location. The Poverty Alleviation …

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Curbing Corruption in Forestry Management through User Groups in Nepal

Forest Action, a local Nepalese CSO, has successfully engaged communities to tackle the problem of willful mismanagement of forest resources in the Morang District in Nepal. Through its targeted intervention, balancing constructive engagement, awareness raising and capacity building of citizens and community members to meaningfully participate in the management of …

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