We help governments, public institutions, businesses and local communities solve complex problems related to corruption.
CERC – the Centre de Recherche sur l’Anti-Corruption – is an independent Congolese organisation working in three provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to free the services people depend on from corruption.
We focus on schools, health centres and public services, where corruption hurts people’s lives most, and we work with students, parents and communities to hold those in charge to account. Through research, citizen monitoring and advocacy – and our apps EduCheck, HealthCheck, GovCheck and UNCAC Tracker – we show how corruption works and press for transparency and integrity in public life.
We study corruption problems and draw findings and evidence that serve as a baseline for better-informed debate and new anti-corruption projects.
We build and support partnerships and coalitions of civil society organisations to fight corruption more effectively.
We engage citizens and young people to promote integrity more actively in their schools and communities.
We hold policy dialogues with officials and policymakers on anti-corruption strategies.
7 projects since 2017, US$732,190 received and accounted for in our audited accounts.
2024
RCN Justice & Démocratie · European Union · Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD)
US$19,295
2021–2024
Global Partnership for Education · Oxfam Denmark
US$454,163
2021–2023
USAID · IREX · Search for Common Ground
US$97,527.91
Students aged 14 to 19 trained since 2017 to monitor their schools and public services.
Clubs in secondary schools of South Kivu and Kinshasa, where students learn and practise integrity.
One in three of the problems students identified was fixed thanks to their advocacy with those in charge.
In 2024, with RCN Justice & Démocratie and funding from the European Union and Belgium, CERC set up a social alert system against corruption in Kinshasa’s courts and helped students from four universities create integrity clubs.
On 28 July 2022 in Bukavu, the Ministry of Education, through the Provincial Directorate of Education of South Kivu 1, signed a memorandum of understanding with CERC to bring Integrity Clubs into every secondary school in South Kivu – the result of four years of dialogue with the education authorities.
With the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption, CERC drafted and submitted two bills on Integrity Clubs and integrity education.
Every gift, partnership and hour of volunteering trains new monitors and gets more problems fixed in schools and public services.
CERC’s assistant
Hello! I’m Exaucée, CERC’s assistant. Ask me about CERC, our work, our apps, our reports, or how to donate, partner or report corruption.
Do not share personal information here. To report a case of corruption, use the whistleblowing page: it protects you.
Report what you see in your school or health centre. Your feedback helps make education and health services in the DRC better and more transparent.
EduCheckMonitor your school: teacher attendance, school fees, water and sanitation, equipment.Go to EduCheck (opens in a new tab)
HealthCheckMonitor your health centre: quality of care, medicines, fees and hygiene.Go to HealthCheck (opens in a new tab)
GovCheckA problem in your neighbourhood or with a public service? Report it to your city or commune, and advocate until it is solved.Go to GovCheck (opens in a new tab)
UNCAC TrackerFollow how the DRC implements the UN Convention against Corruption.Go to UNCAC Tracker (opens in a new tab)
