(September 21-23, 2009) With support from the Water Integrity Network, The IRC held a 2nd training course on Transparency, Accountability and Integrity in the Water Sector. Following the training course, participants were invited to attend a WIN-facilitated Action Planning Workshop. This offered the diverse group the opportunity to take their strengthened capacities forward and plan concrete first steps to preventing water-sector corruption in their countries. Five WIN members were partially sponsored by WIN to attend these two events.
The opportunity to engage in debate about definitions of corruption and the relative promise of social accountability mechanisms with participants from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Ghana, Honduras, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, the UK and Zimbabwe, was a highlight for everyone involved. Three intensive days were spent at the International Water House in The Hague, Netherlands, providing a thorough overview of corruption problems in the WASH sector and discussing various means of corruption-prevention and service provision accountability. Specific modules included implementation of Citizens’ Report Cards, Integrity Pacts and Freedom of Information Acts, amongst many others.
Please follow the link for more information about the training course, action planning workshop, and for useful supportive documents!
Dr Jan-Teun Visscher facilitated the follow-up WIN action planning workshop and picked up right where the IRC let off, using the participants’ risk maps and corruption prevention matrices to dig deeper and develop concrete and achievable plans. By the end of the week there were new organisations dedicated joining and promoting WIN, collaborations formed between partners, action plans for the next 4-6 months in 8 countries, and a renewed fervour to achieve real impact at a country-level, against water-sector corruption.
WIN looks forward to working with the participants of the training and workshop, to continue to develop their plans and identify how WIN, or WIN partners, can best facilitate the next steps.
- IRC Training Course Sept2009 - Second Announcement
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preventing corruption training second annoucement sep 2009.doc (51 kB)
- IRC Training Course Sept2009 - Programme Agenda
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preventing corruption training programme sep 2009 #final draft.doc (80 kB)
- WIN Action Planning Workshop - Programme Agenda
- Global Integrity - User's Guide to Measuring Corruption
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users_guide_measuring_corruption.pdf (595 kB)
- Butterworth et al - Improving Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in Water Supply and Sanitation
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