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  • Video

    Alleged feeding scheme corruption leaves learners in KwaZulu-Natal starving

    South Africa

    Video

    Lethiwe Mdluli/DStv403 - eNCA

    Thousands of KwaZulu-Natal children have been forced to go to school on an empty stomach. This comes after the collapse of the KZN National School Nutrition Programme due to tender irregularities and corruption. The provincial Department of Education is yet to provide information regarding this issue.

  • Newspaper

    Disquiet over FG’s planned N999m daily feeding of school children

    Nigeria

    Press

    - New Telegraph

    Education stakeholders criticise the Federal Government (FG) decision to spend N999 million on public primary school students under the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme. Investigations revealed that some students denied the existence of the programme while food vendors claimed that the programme had become a means for public office holders to embezzle public funds, as they did not receive what the government had promised them.

  • Transforming public procurement in education: a lesson on open contracting from Ukraine

    Viktor Nestulia

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  • Open Contracting: The School Meals Programme in Bogotá, Colombia

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    This case study examines the open contracting model used to implement the School Meals Programme (SMP) in the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia. It analyses how this model made it possible for stakeholders to understand and monitor procurement processes by providing direct, real time access to all the necessary information.

  • Open government in Indonesia

    A talk with IIEP researcher: Muriel Poisson on open government in education

    News

    The latest addition to IIEP’s series on Ethics and Corruption in Education is here! The new book, prepared under the guidance of Muriel Poisson, IIEP Programme Specialist, is the first in a new research project on open government in education. The book combines an in-depth conceptual overview with an initial analysis of projects already in place worldwide.

  • Redefining citizen-government boundaries: open government in education

    News

    Citizen participation has become an integral part of national and international anti-corruption programmes.

  • Newspaper

    Education activists make submission to Zondo Commission

    South Africa

    Press

    Jay-Dee Cyster - Politics web

    A number of senior officials in the Eastern Cape have been accused of corruption in relation to an R1 billion-school nutrition programme in the province; another case involves irregularities in relation to school infrastructure provisioning or allegations of corruption in the awarding of a contract to EduSolutions by the Limpopo Department of Education. The contract for the procurement of textbooks for schools in the province was canceled in 2012 after millions had been paid to EduSolutions.

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