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Where do illicit financial flows out of Africa go? TI follows the dirty money

Image: International Monetary Fund Illicit financial flows (IFFs) have been, and continue to be, a huge problem for developing countries, especially. They hinder countries’ ability to meet the UN sustainable development goals, because they undermine the fiscal systems which are in place to collect government revenue, and reduce the amount of funds available for development Read more >

Youth anti-corruption contribution acknowledged on IACD 2024

Image: UNOCD Today, 9 December, the world marks International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD). This year’s theme is Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow’s Integrity, and it will be run as a biennial campaign to highlight the vital role young people play in the fight against corruption. Corruption is intertwined in most of the challenges that Read more >

Strengthening Action Against Corruption: a project to enhance accountability in SA

Corruption Watch (CW), in collaboration with Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) and Transparency International (TI) and co-funded by the European Union, is committed to enhancing accountability in South Africa through the Strengthening Action Against Corruption (SAAC) Project. This initiative specifically targets community advice offices/civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Eastern Cape province, equipping them with Read more >

SA hosts vital talk on Africa’s position on sustainable mining

Image: Wikimedia/Raimond Spekking. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Does the mining sector in Africa have all the requisite best standards in place to ensure both adequate investment and sustainable impact on the environment and the livelihood of communities affected by mining? The answer to this question is a mixed bag of legislative and Read more >

African land corruption and its impact explored in webinar

Corruption Watch’s work in helping to expose and address corruption in the land sector is part of an international research project on how corruption affects the most marginalised of our communities in this regard. The project, overseen by Transparency International, has resulted in the recent release on 19 April 2024 of a report, This Beautiful Read more >