Citizens Monitoring of Public Services

Combatting Corruption at the University of Siantou Complex in Cameroon

In April 2010, the IGI-Focal Integrity Team for Cameroon (IGI-FITCAM) received financial support from PTF to replicate the experience of the 2009 Buea State University project at the University of Siantou Complex. The effort was a means to capture and spread the momentum for transparency and accountability to other mainstream…...

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Monitoring Local Government Vehicle Use in the Philippines

The Anti-Corruption and Transparency Project is an initiative of the Environmental Cooperation and Linkages Inc. (ECOLINK) undertaken through a $16,500 grant support from the Partnership for Transparency Fund/ADB/WF. The Project is implemented in coordination with the Department of the Interior and Local Government, the City Government of Oroquieta and other…...

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Reducing Corruption in MGNREGS & PDS in Odisha, India Phase 2

The state of Odisha, with a high tribal and dalit population, represents extreme backwardness in terms of human development indicators. In general, government institutions, designed for service delivery to the poorest of the poor, hardly function efficiently in a corruption-free manner thereby doubly affecting the marginalized sections residing in the…...

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Reducing Corruption in Indian Public Services

PREM (People’s Rural Education Movement) has been working with the marginalized communities in the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu for the last two decades. It has immense experience in the field of community mobilization and empowerment especially with tribal and dalit sections of the society.…...

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Reducing Corruption in India’s Public Distribution System Phase II

An enormous number of working class and marginalized people are roaming in search of food and among them women and children are the most exploited population. The daily income of about three fourth of the nation’s population is only Rs.20 and their buying capacity is decreasing day by day. But…...

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Reducing Corruption in India’s Public Distribution System

Public Distribution System (PDS) is a one of the major and widespread poverty alleviation programs in India that contributes towards the social welfare of the people.  Essential commodities like rice, wheat, sugar, and kerosene are supposed to be supplied to the people under the PDS at reasonable prices.  PDS was…...

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Reducing Corrupt Budgeting Practices in South Serbia

Despite difficult circumstances last year during the project period, the project ''Capacity building of the local medias and CSOs in 5 regions in South Serbia for the monitoring of the local budget  (planning and spending of  “hidden costs”) was successfully implemented. Highest risk circumstance definitely reflected in the elections that…...

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Combatting Corruption in Clinical Drug Trials (Phase II)

This phase was an extension of an earlier project commenced by Jananeethi. The design and implementation of the project would not have materialized but for the strong belief and support from PTF. The flexibility that PTF allowed in pursuing emerging pathways and recalibrating activities and timelines gave a rare bandwidth…...

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University of Buea Phase II

Citizen’s mobilization efforts against corruption contained in the context of the IGI-FITCAM/PTF university transparency initiative in Cameroon (UB 2009-2011), constitute a valid approach in translating citizens’ knowledge about corruption into citizen’s action against corruption ......

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Curbing Corruption at Buea University in Cameroon

The International Governance Institute, Focal Integrity Team for Cameroon (IGI-FITCAM) on May 1st 2009, received financial support from Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) to conduct a project geared at strengthening the University of Buea’s internal mechanisms for curbing financial mismanagement and corruption and to thereby enhance UB’s institutional performance and…...

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