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National
Corruption Survey 2012
Corruption remains among the top-three
biggest concerns of Afghans, despite a reduction in personal experiences of
corruption
Saturday, March 30, 2013 – Kabul:
Corruption is still regarded as the third major problem in Afghanistan,
following security and unemployment, shows findings of the National
Corruption Survey – a biannual study by Integrity Watch Afghanistan. While
personal experiences with all forms of corruption have decreased from 23% in
2010 to 18% in 2012, the financial burden of bribe on Afghan population has
increased...More
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Afghanistan:
Very high risk of corruption in defence,but results better than expected.
Kabul, 14thFebruary2013 – Afghanistan leaves the door open to waste,
impunity, and endangers troops and citizens,because it lacks strong
anti-corruption systems in the defence and security sector, according to the
first of its kind
Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index...More
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Media and the civil society
demand speedy approval of access to info law
The right to information is one of the basic rights of
citizens and the most important tool for the implementation of law and
enabling the people to oversee government in order to bring about
transparency and counter corruption. Therefore, media and the civil society
urge the government to send the draft Access to information Law to the
parliament for approval immediately...More
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Open
Budget Survey 2012- Media Release
Global report ranks Afghanistan as one of the fastest improving countries in
enabling its citizens to understand and influence budget decisions that
affect their lives.
Independent global report details
how Afghanistan improved budget transparency, but reveals overall low levels
of fiscal transparency and
accountability around
the world...More
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Kabul residents to fight corruption
through monitoring of services.
Integrity Watch Afghanistan and The Killid Group, in collaboration with
UNODC, launched a campaign during a conference to commemorate International
Anti‐Corruption Day. The theme of the conference was “Fighting corruption:
Public participation in monitoring of services.”...More
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Communities to score education services in Jabalsaraj district
In early November, Integrity Watch and Ministry of Education signed a
Memorandum of Understanding to embark on a new cooperation to assess quality
of education services through communities. Initially, Integrity Watch will
use Community Score Cards in...More
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Send Draft Access to Information Law to the Afghan Parliament for Approval
Access to
Information, Fight Against Corruption...Sign
Petition
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Local monitors make monitoring
sustainable in Sajadia community
Construction work of the 24‐classroom building of Sajadia School has been
completed but local people have not accepted handover of the building due to
low quality of windows. Local people in Sajadia community of Balkh province
demand that the construction company must fix the problem before handing
over the building to the community...More
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Civil Society demands
effective Access to Information Law
On September 29 Afghan civil society and media organizations demanded from
the Ministry of Justice to immediately send the draft of the access to
information law for approval to the cabinet as access to information is an
important constitutional right of Afghan citizens. The civil society also
demanded that the Afghan government...More
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Afghan Parliament consults civil society on mining issues
The Integrity Watch team has been part of consultations with the Afghan
Parliament. Three meetings were organized by the Parliament in the month of
August to consult civil society on mining issues including contract issues.
Integrity Watch Afghanistan views were sought...More
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Open trial of corruption case
in Bamyan
It was 9:15 on July
23. Only a few kilometers away from the ruins of the Buddha statue, a
courtroom was packed with people from local communities, civil society,
provincial council, and local monitors. A police officer of the Bayman
Traffic Police charged...More
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Integrity Watch uses theater to promote social accountability
By Khyber Sabawoon Sapay
“… All of these accusations are true … There is fraud in every work of this
building. Even design of the school has been altered. We must call a meeting
of the community to hold...More
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Results of open trials: Courts are
only part of the story
A few months ago with the efforts of Integrity Watch and local communities,
open trials resumed at the courtrooms in Kapisa province. For local people,
these were early signs of improvement in the provision of justice at the
local level through formal courts. However, the problem of lack of access to
justce is very complex in Kapisa province...More
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U.N. Fund Scrutinized for
Afghan Corruption
KABUL—Allegations of corruption have long swirled around Afghan government
and security institutions. Now, such allegations are set to fall on a United
Nations body that channels billions of dollars into the country...More
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Monitoring & Evaluation Committee -
Fourth Mission/ Third Set of Benchmarks
NOTE: In the past, problems arose due to the lack of a secretariat and
serious issues with some Afghan high officials and their understanding of
the MEC’s mandate; the visit in February 2012 was characterised by continual
efforts of the MEC...More
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Four years of
empowering communities to monitor aid
In 2011, local community of Sajadia village in Balkh province played a
leading role to improve construction quality of their local school. Mohammad
Ishaq, a community member said, “if we had let the work continue as it
was...More
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Workshop on the role of CSOs
in monitoring of EI
United States Institute of Peace together with Integrity Watch Afghanistan
intends to implement a project in Aynak that aims to empower communities
living close to mining operations to monitor the socio-economic and
governance impacts of extractive industry activities in their environment.
This will be done by developing...More
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Community-Empowerment For Social Change
IWA's Community Based Monitoring program conducted a
three-day training workshop for Local Monitors (LMs) in Herat. The purpose
of the training was to empower elected community members (Local Monitors) to
understand and exercise their civic responsibility in local reconstruction
projects...More
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Afghan Citizens Budget Guide
This guide explains, in simple and easily understood language, the 1390
Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance on 5
February 2011. The guide is designed to help the general public understand
the budget by explaining what revenues the Government proposes to collect
and how they will be spent...More
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Enhancement of Local Capacity
Integrity Watch
Afghanistan (IWA) conducted Enhancement for Local Capacity (EfLC) training
for Local Monitors (LMs), hosted at the Local Economy Department Nangarhar,
January 9,11. the Objectives for the training was to promote Transparency,
Accountability and Integrity in All Construction projects which are either
Implemented....More
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Impact of Community Based
Monitoring in Herat
Last month in a
meeting with Bagram LMs of Parwan province regarding impact and activities
of CBM, one of the LMs (Mr. Mirbacha) was saying as the social auditing is
going well and community members and government staff are aware -interested
to it...More
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BUSAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION
FOURTH HIGH LEVEL FORUM ON AID EFFECTIVENESS, BUSAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 29
NOVEMBER-21 DECEMBER 2011. We, Heads of State, Ministers and representatives
of developing and developed countries, heads of multilateral and bilateral
institutions, representatives of different types of public, civil society,
private, parliamentary, local and regional organisations...More
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Afghanistan Aid Bulletin
DELIVERING AID THROUGH COUNTRY SYSTEMS
Since 2001, Afghanistan has been one of the largest aid recipients in the
world. Approximately US$57 billion has been disbursed for development work
until 2010. At the Kabul Conference in July 2010, the donor community
committed to...More
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Baseline for Aynak
Integrity Watch Afghanistan will be launching a baseline study of Aynak to
capture the impacts of mining on the local population. The research will
assess the economic, cultural, environmental, social and political impacts
of the mining investment. IWA will carry out several surveys over a period
of time in two different locations. The two locations have...More
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Pilot Aid Transparency Index 2011
This is the first
Publish What You Fund index of the actual level of donors’ aid transparency
and follows on from our 2010 Aid Transparency Assessment. The main finding
of the Assessment was that there is a lack of comparable and primary data
available on aid transparency and that there is no systematic, disaggregated
way of assessing the transparency of donors. This pilot index partially
addresses that finding by providing a methodical analysis of donor aid...More
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Citizens and Civil
Society to Governments“Make Budgets Public Now!”
DAR ES SALAAM – On 18 November 2011 nearly 100 civil society
groups from as many countries and 12 international organizations, including
the International Budget Partnership, Greenpeace, and the ONE Campaign, will
launch a global effort to make public budgets transparent...More
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Hope Amid Chaos: Mineral Resources &
Afghanistan’s Economic Future
As Afghanistan opens the doors to its first national park ,
the fate of its rich array of natural resources remains unclear. After three
decades of conflict and civil war, the country is desperate to use its
mineral wealth to get back on its feet. The Afghan government...More
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Afghanistan's Energy War
Violence escalated daily in Afghanistan with the approach of the 10-year
anniversary of the U.S. invasion on October 7. At the same time, a
little-noted energy agenda is moving rapidly forward that may not only deny
Afghans the much needed economic benefits their energy resources could
provide, but may also exacerbate insecurity and instability...More
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Access to Information Roundtable
The right to information is a fundamental concept in
government accountability and fighting corruption. Integrity Watch
Afghanistan welcomes the work that has been done to draft an Access to
Information Law and organised a roundtable to increase citizens and media’s
awareness on this issue...More
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3P Human Security
3P Human Security interviews Karolina Olofsson from Integrity Watch
Afghanistan on her visit to Washington DC.
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Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan
News stories tell of the cost of war; they highlight the life of
western soldiers, the young western recruiters, the lost western marines,
the lost tax payers’ money but talk seldom about the loss of income, life,
future and opportunities for the people who have to live in the middle of
the war. When people look at the effort that has been put into
Afghanistan...More
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