Multi-level Advocacy and Civic Collaboration to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa

Multi-level Advocacy and Civic Collaboration to  Strengthen Health Systems in Africa Lessons from the COVID-19 Transparency Accountability Project (CTAP)  The COVID-19 emergency officially ended on May 11th, 2023. And with that, we must remember that the global public health emergency exposed political fault lines and eroded trust between people and governments due to instances of…

Building Accountable and Accessible Health Systems for Better Pandemic Response

Building Accountable and Accessible Health Systems for Better Pandemic Response On October 20th, we sat down to talk with three civil society experts involved in the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP) about their experiences implementing innovative approaches in to strengthen health systems in African countries: Nancy Saiboh the Program Lead at Actions for Development…

Learning Report | CTAP Phase 1: Advancing COVID-19 Accountability and Citizen Mobilization in Africa

A movement across 7 African nations is mobilizing citizens to demand accountable government action that effectively addressed the ongoing COVID-19 challenges. How? Through a growing coalition called the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP), run by Global Integrity and two partner organizations in Nigeria: BudgIT and Connected Development (CODE). To find out about what’s been…

CTAP Event at Open Gov Week 2022: Health-focused OGP Commitments Matter

Author: Izabela Chmielewska   OVERVIEW During Open Gov Week in May 2022, Global Integrity and our COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP) partners in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Cameroon gathered for a conversation about advancing primary health in Africa through the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and its multi-stakeholder processes.  The event gave firsthand insights from…

An Aggravated Struggle: Kleptocracy and COVID-19

Can humane stories help fight kleptocrats in power in Central Africa? Absolutely, is what the Central African Coalition Against Kleptocracy would say.  The Coalition, which includes activists from Cameroon, Chad, Congo and Equatorial Guinea, believes that sharing stories on how citizens are affected by kleptocrats is an important step in raising awareness, and eventually fighting…

members of Central African Coalition Against Kleptocracy engaged in discussion

Central African Coalition Against Kleptocracy takes different approach to tackling kleptocracy

Fighting kleptocrats at the international level is not enough Related Blog Beating kleptocrats at their own game: Learning how to tackle kleptocracy more effectively The complexity of kleptocracy (in which those governing seek status and personal gain at the expense of the governed) has implications for the approaches taken to address this particular corruption problem.…