African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption

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The African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC) is Africa’s leading network of parliamentarians working to strengthen parliamentary capacity to fight corruption and promote good governance.

What's New

The APNAC General Meeting was held from September 19th to 21st 2009 in Lusaka, Zambia. The new APNAC Executive Council elections were held and new representatives chosen. To see the new members of the Executive Council, click here.

A summary of the General Meeting report is available here

APNAC Liberia Chapter was launched by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. This will be a great opportunity to have a Chapter there to spearhead good governance programs to promote the development process in this young democratic nation [more...]

APNAC Liberia has launched its Chapter [more...]

APNAC Anti-Corruption training was held at ESAMI [more...]

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Regional training for new and upcoming chapters in West Africa

Dar es Salaam,Tanzania

Linkages between poverty reduction, economic growth and corruption

TI CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS OF APNAC COUNTRIES

Courtesy of Transparency International 2007

Africa is still lowly ranked in the current Transparency Internationals Corruption Perception Index. And some APNAC countries are perceived poorly, even among African Countries.

Of the 20 African countries with existing APNAC Chapters, only two; Ghana and Senegal feature in the current Transparency International's top 10 least corrupt countries in Africa. In the overall worldwide rankings, however, the three countries are still seen to be in the less exemplary bracket with positions 69 (Ghana) and 71 (Senegal) out of 163 countries.

A.U PILOT PROJECT UGANDA

The Uganda APNAC Chapter, in conjunction with the country's Transparency International (TI) chapter, has recently completed a pilot project on the domestication of the African Union (AU) convention on preventing and combating corruption and other related offences.

Activities Reports

MOZAMBIQUE AND ANGOLA ANTICORRUPTION TRAINING WORKSHOP

The Third APNAC Anticorruption Workshop for Portuguese Speaking Countries Angola and Mozambique - was held in Maputo, Mozambique in May 2006. It was a workshop that brought to the fore the difficult political dynamics that confront Apnac in post-conflict countries

APNAC COUNTRY VISIT TO NAMIBIA

An APNAC delegation made a successful three-day visit to Namibia in May 2006. The delegation called on the Parliament of Namibia and the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF) whose headquarters are in Windhoek

Strategic Brief: The UN Toolkit against Corruption

The United Nations Toolkit against Corruption provides 41 tools for developing strategies against corruption and a variety of case studies. Below are first three tools:

Tool NO.1

Assessing the Problem

The first phase of developing strategies against Corruption is the assessment of the extent and nature of corruption in a given country or sector.

Tool NO.2

Assessing the Institutions

The second Tool is the assessment of institutions involved in building integrity to curb corruption so as to determine each institution’s capacity to participate in the anti-corruption strategy and the degree of success achieved at each stage.

Tool NO.3

Building or Reforming Specialised anti-corruption Agency

The third stage in developing a strategy against corruption is taking the necessary measures to build or reform institutions related to the fight against corruption.The abitration of peple ought to continue

News Briefs

Persistent Corruption in Low-Income Countries:Transparency International

The divide in perceived levels of corruption in rich and poor countries remains as sharp as ever [more...]

Involve citizens in defeating Corruption: Monitor

Political leaders in Africa have been asked to involve citizens in defeating corruption and embedding good governance [more...]

APNAC Liberia launched: Executive Mansion

APNAC Liberia was launched by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Monrovia to facilitate [more...]

Ernest Bai Koroma prevails: allAfrica.com

Ernest Bai Koroma has won the presidential elections in Sierra Leone [more...]

When will this blatant looting stop in govt? Daily Monitor

This blatant looting of taxpayers’ money through unscrupulous government transactions must stop [more...]

CID Investigates TIG Tender Scam: allAfrica.com

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has launched investigations into alleged irregularities [more...]

Uganda graft rating better:New Vision

Uganda has slightly improved its corruption score [more...]

New Anti-Fraud agenda: allAfrica.com

With political will no longer an issue in Uganda's attempts to uproot corruption given President Yoweri Museveni's Independence [more...]

Malawi boss charged over graft: mail&guardian

Malawi's anti-corruption agency has arrested the head of the country's electricity-generating company over allegations of graft [more...]

Corruption rampant in Rwanda: The New Times

The the Ombudsman Tito Rutaremara stated that there are cases of corruption [more...]

Corruption still pervasive in Ghana: allAfrica.com

The government and people of Ghana appear to have lots of work to do in the fight against corruption [more...]

Mwanawasa prescribes corruption Panacea :allAfrica.com

President Levy Mwanawasa has called on the business community in the country to help in the anti-corruption [more...]

Africa needs tough Anti Laundering Laws: Mmegi

African governments have been urged to implement stringent laws to combat money laundering [more...]

Graft bill proposals defended: The Standard

The Government has defended proposals in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill 2007 [more...]

Strategic Briefs

RIDING THE TIGER

Tips from a Handbook on corruption.[more...]

More on Bribery

Understanding Corruption.[more...]

Dealing with Conflicts of Interest

Lessons from the OECD Countries.[more...]

Country Reports

UGANDA

Uganda is one of the three countries that make up the East Africa Community (EAC).[more..]

GAMBIA

BURKINA FASO

GHANA

CONGO DRC

MALAWI

NIGER

Pilot Projects

GHANA: Progress report on the AU Convention Pilot Project:[report.doc]

UGANDA: The Uganda chapter has finalized its pilot project on the AU convention:Final report.doc