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Success stories
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2024Success stories
Citizens’ alerts against corruption in Kinshasa’s courts
With RCN Justice & Démocratie, CERC set up a social alert system in three courts and four university integrity clubs. Corruption in the courts hits ordinary citizens hardest – and those who suffer it rarely know where…
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Fighting Corruption in Schools: CERC and APNAC DRC to propose Legislative Initiative to the National Assembly of the DRC
CERC is launching an ambitious initiative to build integrity and anti-corruption measures in the education sector. This initiative takes the form of a Draft Law aimed at incorporating Integrity Clubs and an Integrity…
2023–2024Success stories
Two bills to bring integrity education into the curriculum
With the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption, CERC drafted and submitted two bills on Integrity Clubs and integrity education. Teaching integrity in a few schools already makes a difference. But for…
2022Success stories
What we learned from our Integrity Club model
A knowledge, attitudes and practices survey of 2,250 students in 150 schools to improve how Integrity Clubs work. After several years of Integrity Clubs, CERC wanted to understand what really works, what motivates…
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ICON Kinshasa initiates a Quick Impact project, reintegrating 45 marginalized, unemployed youth in Kinshasa.
9 youth-led and youth-serving organizations trained under Youth Excel’s ICON project joined their effort to design and implement a Joint Quick Impact (QIP) Project “Socio-Economic Reintegration of 45 Unemployed and…
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Youth Excel Kinshasa Data Summit: Increasing youth inclusion in education and in workforce development programmes
CERC in partnership with IREX and SFCG, held the issue-Based Collaborative Networks (ICONs) Data Summit in Kinshasa in August 2022. The event was part of the Youth Excel’s ICONs, a youth participatory research project…
2022Success stories
A memorandum of understanding to bring Integrity Clubs into every school
96 senior education officials, including 3 members of parliament, agreed to set up Integrity Clubs in every secondary school in South Kivu and Kinshasa. For Integrity Clubs to last, it was not enough for them to work…
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18 young leaders trained in leadership and entrepreneurship skills
We are thrilled to share that 9 incredible youth-led and youth-serving organizations, including one LGBTQI-led organization and 2 organizations led by People Living with Disabilities, have successfully completed…
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300 students trained in anti-corruption mechanisms
From 2 to 15 November 2022, a series of workshops were conducted in South Kivu and Kinshasa, with the participation of 300 students. These workshops were organized under the “Students Act for Accountability and Quality…
2021Success stories
Scaling up Integrity Clubs to a new province
US$430,177 received in 2022 and 2023 to keep 50 Integrity Clubs in South Kivu and open 100 new ones in Kinshasa, reaching 2,250 students. Having proved itself in South Kivu, the Integrity Club model needed to scale up.
2021Success stories
An independent civil society report on the UN Convention against Corruption
Commissioned by the UNCAC Coalition, CERC assessed how the DRC applies the Convention and made around a hundred recommendations. The DRC ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) on 23 September…
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