Case study: how DigitalOcean’s cloud credits keep citizen monitoring online in the DRCIn 2025, DigitalOcean’s non-profit cloud credits, worth about US$2,000, hosted CERC’s four civic tech apps – EduCheck, GovCheck, HealthCheck and UNCAC Tracker. What it made possible, and what other donors can do.Impact stories
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In schools and universities, in courts and parliament, in Kinshasa, South Kivu and at the United Nations: a few of the people and moments behind our results.
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Case study: how DigitalOcean’s cloud credits keep citizen monitoring online in the DRCIn 2025, DigitalOcean’s non-profit cloud credits, worth about US$2,000, hosted CERC’s four civic tech apps – EduCheck, GovCheck, HealthCheck and UNCAC Tracker. What it made possible, and what other donors can do.29 stories
Case study: how DigitalOcean’s cloud credits keep citizen monitoring online in the DRCIn 2025, DigitalOcean’s non-profit cloud credits, worth about US$2,000, hosted CERC’s four civic tech apps – EduCheck, GovCheck, HealthCheck and UNCAC Tracker. What it…
Citizens’ alerts against corruption in Kinshasa’s courts – and students who actIn 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…
Fighting Corruption in Schools: CERC and APNAC DRC to propose Legislative Initiative to the National Assembly of the DRCCERC 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…
2,250 integrity education manuals and monitoring guides handed to studentsUnder the Students Acting for Accountability and Quality of Education project, CERC handed 2,250 integrity education manuals and 2,250 monitoring guides to the members…
Two bills to bring integrity education into the curriculumWith the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption, CERC drafted and submitted two bills on Integrity Clubs and integrity education.
ICON Kinshasa initiates a Quick Impact project, reintegrating 45 marginalized, unemployed youth in Kinshasa9 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…
138 school principals and 278 teachers trained in integrity building in Kinshasa and BukavuUnder the Students Acting for Accountability and Quality of Education project, CERC trained 278 teachers and 138 principals from 150 schools in Kinshasa and Bukavu to…
Youth Excel Kinshasa Data Summit: Increasing youth inclusion in education and in workforce development programmesCERC 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…
A memorandum of understanding to bring Integrity Clubs into every schoolOn 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…
18 young leaders trained in leadership and entrepreneurship skillsWe 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…
300 students trained in anti-corruption mechanismsFrom 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…
Scaling up Integrity Clubs: from South Kivu to Kinshasa with the Global Partnership for EducationWith the Global Partnership for Education, through Education Out Loud and Oxfam IBIS, CERC took Integrity Clubs to 150 secondary schools in South Kivu and Kinshasa: 204…
An independent civil society report on the UN Convention against CorruptionCommissioned by the UNCAC Coalition, CERC assessed how the DRC applies the Convention and made around a hundred recommendations.
CERC at the Anti-Corruption States-GeneralInvited as an expert by the Ministry of Justice, CERC spoke on prevention, integrity education and technology for transparency.
What we learned from our Integrity Club modelA knowledge, attitudes and practices study with 534 students and 89 teachers and head teachers to improve how Integrity Clubs work.
Consulting senior education officials54 senior Ministry of Education officials and 19 anti-corruption experts helped shape a baseline strategy for the education sector.
Youth Excel: young people leading research and change in KinshasaWith USAID and IREX, CERC helped ten youth organisations in Kinshasa – including organisations led by LGBTQI people and by people living with disabilities – produce…
Special consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC)Since July 2021, CERC has held special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. It has used it to carry Congolese evidence to the United Nations…
Joining the UNCAC Coalition and Catalyst 2030Two global networks: more than 350 civil society organisations for the UN Convention against Corruption, and a movement of social innovators for the SDGs.
Students participate in building schools that are responsive to their needsMillion’s children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo schools learn in infrastructures that did not meet minimum norms and standards. Secondary schools in Uvira…
We unite school-aged children to fix our failing education systemFor the past three years, CERC helped 54 secondary schools to embed anti-corruption and transparency protocols in the education system in South Kivu. Since 2017, CERC…
Anti-Corruption Day 2019: young people take a memorandum to the Mayor of UviraOn 9 December 2019, more than 100 young people, members of the SHINE project's Integrity Clubs, marched to Uvira Town Hall and handed Mayor Kiza Muhato a memorandum…
Integrity Club convinced school officials to build extra toilets and classroomsAccess to education is a major challenge for children living in South Kivu. Children living in rural areas study in poor conditions. Schools are overcrowded and often…
202 teachers, principals and club leaders from 35 schools trained in Uvira and LuvungiUnder the SHINE project, CERC trained 202 teachers, principals and Integrity Club leaders from 35 schools in Uvira and Luvungi, from 18 February to 2 March 2019.
Anti-Corruption Day 2018: 35 schools march in UviraUnder the SHINE project, students from 35 secondary schools in Uvira marched 3 km on International Anti-Corruption Day 2018, in a campaign that reached some 15,000…
Six civil society organisations trained in Community Integrity Building in BukavuUnder the SHINE project, CERC trained six civil society organisations from South and North Kivu and Ministry of Education representatives in Bukavu, who formed a…
From DevelopmentCheck to CERC’s four digital toolsWith DevelopmentCheck, 810 students in 54 Integrity Clubs got 32% of the problems they reported fixed. That method now runs on four tools of CERC’s own – EduCheck…120 teachers, principals and club leaders trained in Uvira and SangeUnder the SHINE project, CERC trained 20 principals, 40 teachers and 60 Integrity Club leaders in Uvira and Sange to launch student monitoring in 20 secondary schools.
From 20 schools in Uvira to a national model: the story of the Integrity ClubsIt began in December 2017 with 20 secondary schools in Uvira. The Integrity Clubs grew to 204 clubs, brought in a new donor, entered the school system, inspired two…
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