Transparency and Accountability
Transparency and accountability are fundamental requirements of good governance. Government at national or local level has the obligation to report, explain and is answerable for the consequences of decisions they takes on behalf of the people and the community they represent.
NWADO has over the years continued to mobilize and capacitate civil society and grassroots civic movements, activists and social change influencers with techniques and tools to monitor public sector service delivery, procedures, policies and programs and to carry out whistle blowing where accountability is evidence of poor public management and corruption.
Our “People power against corruption” project is a grassroots campaign to mobilize citizen’s voices against corrupt practices and to foster a culture of transparency and accountability at various levels of governance. The project has worked to empower grassroots citizens on monitoring public investments projects in their localities as well as promote and disseminate the citizen budget in local communities.
Over 580 community based leaders have been transformed to local whistle blowers, denouncing wrongdoing in public investment projects within 7 municipal council areas of the North West Region. Their Work is quiet impactful given that the ongoing armed conflict has destabilized the functioning of public institutions, making it difficult for project quality control and supervision teams to carry out field visits to project sites. This community based partnership approach consistently generates citizens’ controlled report that gives an overall picture of local community projects. Our prospects for 2024 is to make this partnership more engaging and effective main through the development and institution of digital tools at the disposal of grassroots citizens actors.
