This success story highlights the unique work of the Transparent Public Investment (TPI) Project in Lambayeque, Peru and the efforts of a local journalist fighting corruption through investigative blogging. The program and the Lambayeque College of Journalists co-developed a course that provides training for journalists in the region who are interested in pursuing investigative journalism.
Due to COVID-19, the Transparent Public Investment project has had to adapt to the online environment of disseminating information and encouraging dialogue through webinars and virtual meetings. As such, this success story effectively highlights the unique relationship between the Transparent Public Investment project and the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MINSA).
The Transparent Public Investment project’s brochure explores the purpose, objectives, and main outcomes of the project. Centered on the integrity network approach, the TPI project engages the private sector, the Peruvian government, and civil society in dialogue to improve transparency and accountability practices for public procurement.
Colombia, like other countries, implemented stay-at-home measures and restricted certain social services to limit the spread of COVID-19 beginning in mid-March 2020. Women and girls have disproportionately faced increased risks of experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) due to the socioeconomic fallout, and women in Colombia often lack consistent and reliable pathways to report violence. In response,…
For decades, systematic corruption has compromised the integrity of Peru’s executive, judicial, and legislative systems while negatively affecting poverty, crime rates, and economic growth. The USAID Transparent Public Investment (TPI) project partners with the Peruvian state and the private sector to address systemic corruption by promoting integrity initiatives in Lima and four key provinces: Lambayeque,…
Syria Regional Program II (SRP II) operated with the goal of achieving a moderate, inclusive, and stable Syria. The project maintained and increased the influence of strategic moderate entities, strengthened communities to better resist extremism, and enabled the early recovery of newly liberated areas from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by providing…
Cristina Hardaga Fernández is the chief of party of the Human Rights Accountability Activity (Promoviendo la Rendición de Cuentas por los Derechos Humanos (RED-DH)), a five-year USAID-funded project focused on enhancing the capacity and commitment of the Mexican government to provide effective and accountable responses to grave human rights violations, such as forced disappearances and…
The FIRST project has used a variety of tools to improve citizens’ trust in the Ministry of Finance. FIRST created a comic book with a superhero character named Tunman to raise schoolchildren’s awareness of why the government needs to raise taxes to pay for public services and why it is a civic duty of citizens to…
Mohammad Youssef is an expert in information security with 15 years of experience across the Middle East region and in conflict environments, including Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and Algeria with a variety of local and international companies in different sectors. He currently leads implementation in Syria to provide modern education support, stabilization, counter-violent extremism, and governance…
Accountability ecosystems are defined as the relationship between multiple levels of government, citizen collective action, civil society advocacy, and institutions, wrapped together by a web of social, political, and cultural factors in a given country context. The relationship between multiple levels of government, citizen collective action, civil society advocacy, and institutions, wrapped together by a…
Implemented by Chemonics, USAID’s five-year Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement (SACE) Program in Nigeria differed from most civil society organization (CSO) capacity development and governance projects by taking a different approach to the traditional formula of enhancing capacity development and strengthening government accountability. Rather than using grants to support CSOs to implement a linear project strategy focused…