About IWA
Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) is to date one of these few and possibly the most relevant CSO to focus on research, monitoring and advocacy on anti-corruption and pro-integrity work in Afghanistan, both in Kabul and through networks with sub-national and community based organizations in a variety of districts.IWA was founded in May 2006 with the mission to increase transparency, integrity, and accountability in Afghanistan through policy-oriented research, the development of monitoring tools and trainings for the facilitation of policy dialogue. IWA gathered a highly talented team consisting mostly of Afghan researchers with the addition of culturally literate internationals. IWA has today 16 full time staff members. In addition to promoting transparency, integrity, and accountability, IWA strives to lead by example and enact these same virtues within its own organization. IWA is part of the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction (NIR), constituted of NGOs and civil society organizations working in 8 post-conflict countries and exchanging experience and competence to reduce the chances to revert into conflict...More

Highlights
 
Afghanistan Map

Report Corruption

National Corruption Survey 2010
Corruption is rampant and has become more entrenched in all areas of life in Afghanistan. The Afghan population as a whole paid twice as much in 2009 as it had paid in 2006. Bribery today represents a burden of 1 billion USD on the Afghan GDP. One adult in seven experienced direct bribery in Afghanistan in 2009 while 28% of Afghan households paid a bribe to obtain at least one public service....More

 National Corruption Survey 2010
Reports
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Bringing accountability back in: from subjects of aid to citizens of a state, 2008
Author:

Delesgues, Torabi
The Paris conference of June 12th 2008 is a chance to review aid policies in Afghanistan. If the international community wants to succeed in Afghanistan more of the same aid is not an option...More
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Open Budget Index, 2009
Author:

IBP

The Open Budget Survey 2008 finds that, overall; the state of budget transparency around the world is deplorable. In most of the countries surveyed the public does not have access to the comprehensive and timely information needed to participate meaningfully in the budget process and to hold government to account...More
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Aynak Copper Mine
Author:

Emmanuel Huntzinger

This IWA study was conducted in July and August 2007 in Kabul; it relied on in-depth interviews with the main actors directly involved in the Aynak project, reviews of publicly availbe documentation and analyses conducted by Integrity Watch Afghanistan....More
Events
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IWA's press conference on Anti-corruption day

Date:

9th December 2009

Place: IWA's office
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Training on Internal CSO's Integrity

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23-24th June 2009

Place: IWA's office
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Afghan CSO training on Integrity

Date:

20-22nd June 2009

Place: IWA's office

IWA's interview with France 24 on the Afghan elections
Date: 21st October 2009 IWA's interview with France 24 on the Afghan elections...More

Date: 21st October 2009

IWA's interview with France 24 on the Afghan elections

Integrity Manual
The manual is aimed at giving the methodologies necessary to implement pro-integrity programs considering the Afghan context and at assisting Afghan CSO to be run efficiently and transprantly in the Afghan context. Dari and Pashto version of the manual are available....More

Local Monitoring Groups engineering training videos
These videos are used to illustrate the problemes typically encountered by local monitors during their work. These videos explain the sources and the possible solutions to solve these construction challenges. They are used as a training tool for the local monitors...More

Afghanistan: water, human development and communites participation
These videos are used to illustrate the problemes typically encountered by local monitors during their work. These videos explain the sources and the possible solutions to solve these construction challenges. They are used as a training tool for the local monitors

CORRUPTION IGNORED, DEPLORED IN AFGHANISTAN
Lorenzo Delesgues, director of the local think tank Integrity Watch Afghanistan, recently conducted a study looking at the impact of corruption on people's....More

REBUILDING AFGHANISTAN: LOCAL WANT SAY MORE
Lorenzo Delesgues, who heads Integrity Watch Afghanistan, a think tank based in Kabul, says one of its surveys concluded that no more than 40 cents of each...More
   

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