Water & Corruption News
News on transparency, honesty and corruption taken from Source Weekly (IRC)
- Participatory budgeting: towards better service delivery and transparency in Africa (25 Apr 08)
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Senior officials representing governments, local authorities and NGOs from 29 African countries gathered from 10-14 March 2008 in Durban, South Africa, for the first Africa Regional Seminar on Participatory Budgeting. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a system that gives the public a say and an eye on how municipal funds are spent.
- Call for Papers (18 Apr 08)
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The consortium of the Network for the development of Sustainable Approaches for large scale implementation of Sanitation in Africa (NETSSAF) announced a "Call for Papers” for interested authors. The deadline for this is the 31st of May, 2008.
- Colombia: Agua Transparente programme launched and investment in five water plans (22 Mar 08)
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President Álvaro Uribe has launched the Agua Transparente [transparent water] programme, which aims to control the funding used in water projects and the implementation of initiatives, as well as supervising tenders related to water projects, in an effort to avoid corruption.
- Governance: success story - La Guajira Water and Sanitation Project, Colombia (29 Feb 08)
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The World Banks's Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) is flagging the development of a risk assessment and mitigation plan for the Colombia La Guajira Water Project as one of its success stories in 2007.
- India: initiatives to engage with citizens to improve public water and sanitation services (28 Feb 08)
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Engaging with citizens through methods such as Citizen Report Cards and Online Complaint Monitoring Systems results in service improvements, enhanced efficiency and greater public goodwill, a number of forward-looking Indian public service providers are discovering.
- Nasiru Hamisu, retired engineer, Kano Water Board, Nigeria (28 Feb 08)
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“The Tamburawa water project was initiated more out of political considerations than solving Kano’s water problem. The intention was to patronise influential elements in society who were awarded the contract”.
- Grants: Water Integrity Network launches a Small Grants Fund (26 Feb 08)
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The Fund aims to stimulate and support local actions to fight corruption in the water sector, and thereby reduce poverty. It is targeted at Civil Society Organisation (CSO) members of the Water Integrity Network (WIN) working in developing and transition countries.
- Philanthropy: Google.org launches “Inform and Empower to Improve Public Services” initiative (26 Feb 08)
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“Inform and Empower to Improve Public Services“ is one of the five new initiatives launched by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google. It aims to improve the flow of vital information to improve basic services for the poor in India and East Africa.
- Norwegian official sentenced in corruption case (18 Feb 08)
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Oslo Norway: The former head of a municipal water works was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay 63 million kroner (US$11.5 million; €7.9 million) in compensation on Thursday 14th February 2008.
- World Bank: alleged corruption in water project Armenia (23 Jan 08)
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Bruce Tasker, a former World Bank consultant has a conflict with the World Bank on the alleged corruption, fraud and embezzlement in a bank- sponsored water project in Armenia.
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