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

Viktor Nestulia

15.06.2021 0 comments
Open School Data: Here’s your go-to guide

News

08.04.2021 Open school data is a powerful tool. When used properly, open data can promote citizen control over the transfer and use of financial, material, and human resources. Open data can hold local and school authorities to account, improve service delivery, and detect malpractice at the school level – and most importantly, enable citizens to stand up for their right to quality education.
Open school data: what planners need to know

Muriel Poisson

2021 202p.
Corruption plagues Afghanistan's education system

03.04.2018 Afghanistan

Press

Alex Cooper - OCCRP

As another school year begins in Afghanistan, the country continues to face insecurity, an epidemic of corruption within its education system and old customs that keep many students and qualified teachers away from classrooms. Violence and corruption are problems that can hardly be solved on grassroots level only. Increased violence forced more than 1,000 schools to shut their doors since 2016 and according to a report compiled by the country’s independent corruption monitor, corruption is “devastating” the education system and the country.
Afghanistan Learning Paper - 2015 Closing the Loop and combining Community Integrity Building with Integrity Education

This learning paper was commissioned by Integrity Action with the aim of capturing some of the knowledge, learning and - where possible - evidence around the effectiveness of the work of Integrity Action’s partner in Afghanistan.

Saunders, Joy; NORAD; f Integrity Action

2015
How citizen action on budgets led to 4 new classrooms and saved the taxpayer $6000

27.11.2015 Cameroon

Press

Focal Integrity Team of Cameroon - ONE

In rural Cameroon, government budget allocations and expenditures are still hidden from public view. Focal Integrity Team of Cameroon (FITCAM) managed to convince public officials to disclose information of public interest to community organizations. They then supported citizens in holding authorities to account on local education projects in the Fako Division of Buea, in South West Cameroon. After exposing the corrupt practices of contractors, the Ministry of Public Contracts declared savings of 5,342, 765 CFA (approximately $5,980) through renegotiating contracts relating to a number of projects.
Lessons in graft

20.01.2008 Uzbekistan

Press

Marina Kozlova - Transition On Line

In Uzbekistan, many schools lack basic supplies and teachers sometimes resort to asking pupils for cash to supplement meager budgets. The Uzbek Uchitel Uzbekistana newspaper in August 2007 reported that even the most experienced elementary and secondary-school teachers earn less than $100 a month. In 2007, Transparency International ranked Uzbekistan fifth from bottom in its corruption index of 180 nations surveyed.