We help governments, public institutions, businesses and local communities solve complex problems related to corruption.
The Centre de Recherche sur l’Anti-Corruption (CERC) is a Congolese research and policy organisation that seeks to expose and dismantle the corruption that diverts public money and fuels conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Our research and citizen monitoring follow the money from budgets, aid and natural resources to the schools, health centres and communities it is meant to serve.
We provide evidence and strategies for governments, donors and justice institutions to hold the perpetrators and enablers of corruption to account. These efforts give new leverage to young people, communities and anti-corruption efforts for peace and better public services.
We work where corruption weighs most on people’s lives – from eastern Congo, as it emerges from war, to the capital.
Our office: Uvira
CERC was founded in April 2017 in Uvira and Bukavu, where our first Integrity Clubs were born. Our office is in Uvira, the pilot city for the return of the State to the East.
Since 2022
In the capital we work with schools, universities, courts and youth organisations.
Planned for 2030
We have worked with civil society organisations and young people of North Kivu, and our Strategy 2027–2030 takes our work there in 2030.
The boundaries and names shown on this map do not imply any opinion on the part of CERC concerning the legal status of any territory or the delimitation of its borders.
7 projects since 2017, US$803,359 received and accounted for in our audited accounts.
2020–today
UNCAC Coalition
US$3,431.50
2024
RCN Justice & Démocratie · European Union · Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD)
US$19,295
2021–2024
Global Partnership for Education · Oxfam Denmark
US$454,163
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.
Integrity Clubs work in 150 schools. To reach every student in the country, CERC and the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption wrote two bills – one on Integrity Clubs, one on an integrity education course – and took them to the National Assembly in April 2024.
Every gift, partnership and hour of volunteering trains new monitors and gets more problems fixed in schools and public services.
CERC’s assistant
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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)
