National chapters form the basis of the Transparency International movement. They act as the implementing partners for the majority of the national work on corruption, and provide clear insights into the realities on the ground.

For further information regarding national chapters and the process of becoming a national chapter, please read the detailed accreditation requirements. In order to contact the national chapters in the region, see the contact details.

Burkina Faso	Guinea - Conakry	Mozambique	South Africa
Burundi	Haiti*	Niger	Uganda
Cameroon	Kenya	Nigeria	Zambia
DR Congo	Liberia	Rwanda	Zimbabwe
Ethiopia	Madagascar	Senegal
Ghana	Mauritius	Sierra Leone

Transparency International Cameroon was established in June 2000 and began working as part of the TI movement in October 2002. The organization achieved full accreditation status as a national chapter in 2007. TI Cameroon seeks to prevent and combat corruption in the public and private sectors.

Objectives

• Raise awareness of the adverse effects of corruption
• Contribute to national strengthening of the rule of law while encouraging positive political reform
• Lead constructive dialogues with government and the private sector
• Form broad coalitions involving both individuals and organizations in order to prevent corruption and promote systemic reform
• Establish partnerships with key civil society organizations especially with those working on human rights, the environment etc

Activities

• Budget tracking survey on the 2004 Public Investment Budget
• Project on monitoring the construction of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline
• Monitoring of the legislative and municipal elections
• Judiciary Watch Project (2007)
• National Integrity Systems Study (2007)
• Corruption awareness-raising campaigns
• Establish a national coalition of civil society organisations against corruption
• Involve private business and the media in the fight against corruption
• Publish the TIC newsletter
• Participate in the Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (with a strong focus on corruption in the education sector) (2008-2011)

For further information, please contact Transparency International Cameroon or visit http://www.ti-cameroon.org/.

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) was launched in December 1999 and has been a TI National Chapter since 2004. GII is a non-partisan, non-profit civil empowerment organization focused on the delivery of essential themes necessary for the creation of a National Integrity System. GII’s mission is a corruption-free Ghana in all spheres of human endeavour where people and institutions act with integrity, accountability and transparency. The chapter aims to continuously create awareness about the negative effects of corruption; to empower citizens to demand responsiveness, accountability and transparency from people and institutions in Ghana; and by working with people and institutions to build a culture of integrity, where corruption is unprofitable for people working in government, politics, business and civil society organisations.

Objectives

• Educating the public about civic rights and duties, especially the basis of constitutionalism
• Pressing for legislative reform of anti-corruption rules, enforcement procedures and rules restrictive to media freedom
• Supporting the evolution of strong institutions of governance especially the institutions directly involved in anti-corruption activities
• Forging links between the public and their governments as the basis for the evolution of a National Integrity System
• Creating and administering training programmes in ethics and civic duty
• Liaising with international anti-corruption bodies
• Organising media programmes that are aired nationally, devoted to awareness-raising on anti-corruption and integrity issues
• Building a database (including Internet Access) and library on corruption

Activities

• Advocating for the passage of transparency-enhancing and anti-corruption legislations: Freedom of Information law; and Whistleblower Law
• Organised nation-wide radio programmes to educate the public on the importance of anti-corruption legislations in the fight against corruption (ongoing)
• Advocated for the ratification and domestication of United Nations (UN) and Africa Union (AU)Conventions against Corruption (2006)
• GII has continued to launch the annual reports of Transparency International
• Publish quarterly newsletter “GII Alert” that highlights GII and TI activities as well as best practices and significant happenings in anti-corruption in Ghana and around the world (2005 - ongoing)
• Membership Drive Project aimed at raising awareness for qualified members of the public to join the TI movement. (2007 – on-going)
• Africa Education Watch Programme, a multi-national project on primary education in Africa (2007-on-going)
• Public Education/ District/Municipal level sensitization workshop - Fighting corruption – an agenda for democracy and good governance (2004-ongoing)
• Effective implementation of the Assets Disclosure regime in Ghana (2007). Advocacy aimed at making the Assets Declaration law in Ghana (Act 550) operational
• Promoting awareness of the Conflict of Interest Guidelines produced by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) (2007-2008)

For further information, please click here for a detailed presentation, contact the Ghana Integrity Initiative or visit http://www.tighana.org/.

La Fondation Héritage pour Haiti (LFHH) was founded in 1999 and has been a TI National Chapter since 2005. LFHH’s mission is to combat corruption, to promote the values of ethics, integrity, probity and accountability in the public and private spheres of Haitian society and to encourage collective respect for the standards of moral, accountable disciplined, law-abiding, democratic and transparent governance.

While geographically not located in either the Africa or Middle East Region, the responsibility for Haiti has been allocated to the department as a result of the chapter's understanding of the cultural specificities Haiti shares with French-speaking West Africa and its wish to have proper service provision in the official language of the country.

Objectives

• Reflection, research and anti-corruption resource center
• Anti-corruption public awareness, education and advocacy
• Reinforcement of anti-corruption capacities of Government of Haiti and other institutions (private sector/civil society/political parties) through development of tools and training
• Promotion of implementation of the UNCAC and reinforcement of the legislative arsenal against corruption
• Coalition building

Activities

• Promotion of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption; publishing and distributing the convention to government ministries and offices, civil society, private sector associations, political parties and the media
• Push for government reforms by:
  • Building demand through education and public awareness by publishing booklets on corruption
  • Production of a radio soap opera to create awareness and educate about corruption
  • Holding an essay contest on corruption for young people
  • Producing anti-corruption billboards
• Sponsorship and advocacy of an “Access to Information” legislation
• Campaign to push for the ratification of the UNCAC began in November 2005; achieved ratification in May 2007
• Completed internal governance assessment of 2 public hospitals in November / December 2007
• Publication of a diagnostic report on corruption (2008)
• Establishment of the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC)

For further information, please contact La Fondation Héritage pour Haiti.

Transparency International Kenya was accredited as a National Chapter in 1999. The organization’s vision is “a transparent, just and accountable Kenyan society”. To make this vision a reality, TI Kenya is working to support citizens and governance institutions to effect transparency and accountability in public and business affairs through legal and policy frameworks, skills, knowledge and information.

Objectives

• Transparent and accountable governance institutions in Kenya
• Effective policy and legal frameworks that promote accountability and transparency
• Empower citizens to proactively demand transparency and good governance
• Support political participation and competition that is regulated, accountable and transparent

Activities

• Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Programme: annual Kenya Bribery Index, research papers, case studies, and provides M&E support to other programmes
• Citizen Demand programme: Public advocacy forums and public awareness raising forums, Institutional systems and practices audits, Public Complaints Unit, Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (TISDA) (focus on the water and sanitation sector), citizen support networks such as North Rift Coalition for Good Governance, Mombasa City Wide Residence Association
• Political Transparency Programme: research and advocacy on transparency in political finance, African Parliamentary Network Against Corruption (APNAC), strengthening parliamentary standing committees
• Governance and Policy Programme: Freedom of Information, strengthening governance institutions through integrity studies, support and enhance parliament oversight and legislative function, work on constitutional review process and monitor public procurement implementation process
• Communications and Advocacy programme: website, regular newsletter ‘Adili’, radio programme, CD-ROM digital record, knowledge centre, monitoring national corruption news, and supports other programmes external engagement with media, and other awareness raising campaigns
• Finance and Administration Programmes: provides financial and budgetary development support to other programmes

For further information, please contact Transparency International Kenya or visit http://www.tikenya.org.

Transparency International – Initiative Madagascar (TI-IM) was founded in 1997 and has been a TI National Chapter since 2002. The organization is active in the fields of fighting corruption in public procurement, local budget, corruption and the judiciary.

Objectives

• Perform a diagnostic study on the causes and incidences of corruption
• Reform the judiciary, administrative, economic and political systems
• Mobilise civil society organisations to raise awareness on the pervasive effects of corruption
• Establish and effective implementation of preventive and detective measures to counter corruption
• Creation of an Independent Anti-corruption Agency

Activities

• Coordination of a package of national integrity surveys
• Workshop for civil society representatives to put together recommendations for the creation of an Anti-Corruption Agency
• Action program on raising awareness against corruption in the judiciary together with the Association des Magistrats du Tribunal d'Antananarivo
• Report on a workshop entitled “Hearing on Corruption in Madagascar”
• Action program on raising awareness of civil society and local authorities for a transparent local governance in Antsirabe, Toamasina, Ambositra, Fianarantsoa, Fort-dauphin (2005-2008)
• Action program on youth against Corruption in the university, secondary and primary schools (2006-2008)
• Action program on raising awareness of civil society on
  transparency in the extractive industry (2006-2008)
• Africa Education Watch Programme (2007-2010)

For further information, please contact Transparency International – Initiative Madagascar.

Transparency Mauritius has been a TI National Chapter since 1999 and has established itself as a perceptive and professional organisation in the fight against corruption in Mauritius. TM proposes an alternative approach to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in terms of its prevention, education and reform actions.

Transparency Mauritius is actively networking with key stakeholders in Mauritius namely institutions and organisations of the private and public sectors, the media and academics (secondary and tertiary education).

Activities

• Various activities to raise awareness of the role of civil society in monitoring the management of public affairs
• Stimulate the process of discussion-negotiating leading to the adoption of a “Public Procurement Transparency and Equity Act”
• Publication of booklet “Yes to integrity, No to corruption” to raise public awareness
• National Integrity System Study

For further information, please contact Transparency Mauritius.

The Center for Public Integrity of Mozambique (Centro de Integridade Publica) was founded in 2005 and has become a TI National Chapter in Formation in 2008. The general objective of CIP is to promote integrity, transparency, ethics and good governance in the public sphere, and to promote human rights in Mozambique. Since 2006, the Centre for Public Integrity has dedicated itself to creating a deeper understanding of the problem of corruption in Mozambique.

Objectives

• Monitor and participate in public and private processes intended to promote transparency, integrity and ethics
• Gather information and promote research into corruption, governance, integrity, transparency and the defence of human rights
• Design, implement and evaluate projects for social intervention
• Promote, through debates and public campaigns, the development of more transparent practices in the management of public property
• Assist and facilitate civil society participation in campaigns to promote ethics and transparency in Mozambique and abroad
• Foster opposition to corrupting practices within the public and private sectors, using to this end investigative journalism and the mass media

Activities

• Research (2007): Studies on Corruption in the Justice Sector, the Education Sector, the Health Sector; Analysis of the Anti-Corruption Strategy
• Seminars in Mozambique: Debates on the Anti-Corruption Strategy and on Corruption in Education; Workshop on Corruption for Parliamentarians and Civil Society from Mozambique and Angola/Maputo
• Seminars and workshops abroad: Conference on “European Anti-corruption Agencies: an Informed, Integrated and Innovative Strategy to Protect Community Financial Interests”; Conference on Political Financing, at Witwatersrand University, South Africa; Workshop on Reconstruction Survey in Oslo, Norway
• National Integrity System Study (2007)

For further information, please contact the Center for Public Integrity of Mozambique or visit www.cip.org.mz.

The Association nigérienne de lutte contre la corruption (ANLC) is a non-political, non-religious and non-profit organisation created in 2001 and accredited as TI National Chapter in 2006.

The organization’s mission is to carry out targeted action aimed at bringing change to the behaviours of all political actors and the general public itself in order to reduce, and in the end eliminate corruption in Niger. The ANLC aims to contribute to the reduction of corruption in Niger with intermediate objectives of strengthening of the judiciary framework in Niger, improvement of public resource management (financial, material and human) and reinforcement of ANLC’s anti-corruption capacities.

Objectives

• Reforms aimed at transparency in public and private management
• Denounce and fight any act of corruption the ANLC knows of in public or private management
• Emergence of ethics that tend to strengthen the moral integrity of citizens
• Promotion of transparency and accountability in commercial transactions, both national and international

Activities

• Awareness-raising about corruption in elections
• Participation in the Nigerien Social Forum
• Presentation, observation of elections, press release to denounce corruption in school examinations
• Contribution and membership in the National Anti-Corruption Commission
• Publication of an awareness-raising brochure on the fight against corruption
• Participation in the Central Market Commission (public contracting)
• Workshops, surveys, radio and televised debates etc.
• Africa Education Watch Programme (2007-2010)
• CD with rap musicians and anti-corruption song

For further information, please contact the Association nigérienne de lutte contre la corruption.

Transparency in Nigeria (TIN) was founded in 1995 and accredited by TI as a National Chapter in July 1998 when it was also registered with the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission.

The vision of the chapter is to fight corruption in Nigeria through a return to grass-roots-level anti-corruption strategies. To facilitate these efforts, TIN is represented through coordinating committees in all of Nigeria’s geopolitical zones.

Activities

• Integrity pact workshops (including in the oil and gas sector)
• National integrity systems project
• Publish what you pay / revenue transparency
• Support to governmental anti-corruption entities
• DFID Pro-poor (ICT) project: Application of ICT to improving effectiveness, quality and transparency in public service delivery, with special reference to primary education in the Oji River local government of Enugu state
• Project on Needs Assessment for ICPC’s Anti-Corruption units in Government Ministries, Parastatals and Extra-Ministerial Departments
• Project on Advocacy visits to the two Houses of the National Assembly and selected State Houses of Assembly to promote the passing of certain bills that will aid the fight against corrupt, or the performance of neglected constitutional functions by the State Houses of Assembly in respect of public accountability
• Report card project
• Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (focus on education) (2008-2011)
• Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (2009 onwards)

For further information, please contact Transparency in Nigeria.

Forum Civil is a civil society association established in January 1993. In 2000, the organization became a TI National Chapter. Forum Civil is widely respected and has managed in the last decade to establish itself as an unavoidable actor in the sphere of public debate with representations in most of the country’s major cities in charge of identifying priorities and developing local programmes of action in conformity with its guiding principles.

Objectives

• Comprehensive and participatory democracy declined in all its dimensions: political, social, economic and cultural life
• Emergence of a new citizenship devoting a responsible and active citizen who is able to take into account their aspirations by policy makers and to demand respect for the principle of accountability
• Transparency, good governance and the fight against corruption
• Enhancement of national expertise and taking greater account of the technological objective in decision making

Activities

• Program to improve system integrity and the legal and regulatory framework to strengthen the fight against corruption
• Administrative and Legal Advice Centres
• National seminar on transparency in the management of public property
• Initiation of the establishment of a National Coalition for Transparency and against Corruption in 2002, which brings together civil society organizations in the area of human rights, women's movements and youth organizations, employers' associations, labour unions, religious organizations, etc.
• Africa Education Watch Programme (2007-2010)
• Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (focus on the water and sanitation sector) (2008-2011)
• Study on corruption in the environment and natural resource sector
• Study on corruption in the health sector
• Participation in Senegal’s “Assises Nationales”

For further information, please contact Forum Civil.

The National Accountability Group (NAG) is the TI National Chapter in Formation in Sierra Leone. Being a civil society membership organization partnered with the Transparency International global network, TIRI (UK), and the Anti – Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone, NAG is dedicated to achieving greater accountability, transparency, and integrity in private and public affairs, curbing corruption, and holding local and national governments accountable to the people of Sierra Leone.

Objectives

• Create public awareness on the damaging effects and the extent of corruption
• Advocate for the elimination of the factors that leads to corruption, impropriety and injustice
• Provide evidence based research on the general state of the public and private sector for proper accountability
• Improve accountability of local and national government institutions and functionaries, private sector and civil society
• Assist existing national established structures of horizontal mechanisms of accountability in the elimination of corruption, impropriety and injustice
• Foster linkages with national, sub regional and intergovernmental stakeholders whose aims and objectives are inconsonance with those NAG and TI

Activities

• Research and Surveys (e.g. Corruption Household Survey)
• Public Education, Awareness Raising and Coalition Building (e.g. Accountability Watch, National Accountability Dialogue Forum, Capacity Building for Civil Society, National Anti-Corruption Strategy)
• Monitoring (e.g. Accountability in Local Government Initiative)
• Institutional Capacity Building
• Projects in the areas of corruption, local governance, accountability, budget monitoring and advocacy such as leadership trainings, dissemination of the national anti-corruption strategy and a public expenditure tracking survey in the education system
• Public expenditure tracking exercise on corruption in the primary education sector
• Monitoring of the Implementation of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism
• Populating the National Anti-Corruption Strategy and Monitoring its Implementation
• Sowing Seeds of Integrity in Children (Accountability Club)
• Fiscal Sponsorship for Local Community Groups
• Revenue/Natural Resource Transparency
• Freedom of/Access to Information
• Africa Education Watch Programme (2007-2010)

For further information, please contact the National Accountability Group and visit http://www.accountability.sl.

Transparency International South Africa (TISA) has been a TI National Chapter since 2000. TISA, a not for profit, politically non-partisan organization commits itself to combating corruption in the public and private sector and in civil society through networks of integrity.

Objectives

• Further transparency, accountability and integrity in South African society
• Further good governance
• Corruption monitoring
• Raise awareness about corruption in South African society
• Develop networks of integrity against corruption

Activities

• Media, campaigning and advocacy work
• Contribution to laws, structures (NACF) and policies for fighting corruption, either directly or through the international movement
• Formation of the National Anti Corruption Forum (NACF)
• TISA newsletter
• Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (focus on education) (2008-2011)
• Workshop on corruption in the private sector
• Regional advocacy workshop
• NIS study (2005)

For further information, please contact Transparency International South Africa or visit http://www.tisa.org.za.

TI Uganda was accredited as a full TI National Chapter in 2004 and has been working to promote good governance and integrity in the country since 1994.

Objectives

• Advocate for the improvement of service delivery in the Education Sector
• Engage in fostering accountability in the oil sector
• Empower communities to be proactive in the fight against corruption
• Foster transparency in the Health Sector
• Raise public awareness and stimulation of debate on the dangers of corruption and the role of citizens in combating it

Activities

• Project to empower communities for proactive action against corruption
• Study on the laws and guidelines and a monitoring project on Electoral Campaign Financing in Uganda
• Participant in the annual National Anticorruption Week activities
• Campaigning and lobbying activities
• Member of the coalition advocating for the enactment of anti-corruption-related laws such the Access to Information Law
• Publications on political corruption, electoral financing and legislative and policy measures for combating corruption in Uganda
• Anti-corruption training workshops for parliamentarians, journalists, local communities and civil society
• Africa Education Watch Programme (2007-2010)
• Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (focus on the health sector) (2008-2011)

For further information, please contact TI Uganda.

TI Zambia has been a TI National Chapter since 2000 and has since then been involved in significant and high profile activities meant to raise awareness on anti corruption and the need for a consolidated approach to tackling corruption at different levels.

Objectives

• Effectively and efficiently play the role of a watchdog institution against corruption as well as be catalytic in the promotion of integrity and good governance in Zambia
• Promote constructive debate and dialogue among various actors on the situation of corruption, good governance and integrity in Zambia
• Develop sustainable coalitions for the purposes of joint action and enhance information sharing among various stakeholders
• Develop the organizational and human capacities of various actors to effectively deal with issues of corruption, good governance and integrity

Activities

• Management and Institutional Development
• Good Governance
• Corruption Awareness and Prevention
• Communication and Coalition Building
• Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC)
• Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa Programme (focus on the health)
• “Show me the Money” – analysis of 20 years of reports by the Auditor General
• “Health Watch” programme (National Integrity System study (2003 and 2007)

For further information, please contact TI Zambia or visit http://www.tizambia.org.zm.

Established in 1996, TI Zimbabwe was accredited as a National Chapter in 2001. TI Zimbabwe, a non-partisan organization, has the vision of a Zimbabwean society anchored on values of transparency, accountability and integrity. The organization aims to promote good governance by fostering a culture of accountability, transparency and integrity through research based advocacy, public education/awareness, policy advice and monitoring.

Objectives

• Alleviating poverty through preventing and combating corruption at all levels of governance; developing a greater appreciation of the link between economic decline, poverty and rising corruption
• Enhancing responsiveness and accountability of public services to the citizenry through active interaction between the citizenry and institutions of governance
• Informing leadership so that they can debate issues from an informed position and spread the word against corruption in their constituencies
• Ensuring that the citizenry is informed so they can demand better service delivery, transparency and accountability from their leaders from grassroots level
• Promoting and upholding democracy, good governance and accountability within government, private sector and the civil society
• Ensuring domesticating and implementation of international instruments such as the UNCAC and the AU Convention Against Corruption

Activities

• Investigative journalism project
• Lobbying for the ratification of both the AU and UN Convention against corruption
• Coordination of NIS studies in five SADC countries (including Zimbabwe)
• Commission of a multi-country study on public service delivery and corruption with special focus on HIV/AIDS management
• “A Lethal Cocktail” – research study on corruption and HIV/AIDS in South Africa (in cooperation with Institute for Security Studies)
• Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (2009 onwards)

For further information, please contact TI Zimbabwe.