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.30 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.
An alert system for citizens to report corruption within the justice systemIn 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.
From research to their own businesses: how 45 young people in Kinshasa became entrepreneursA year after researching why young people in Kinshasa are left out of education and work, nine youth organisations helped 45 of them back into work – in five businesses…
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…
Towards a law to teach integrity in every school in the countryIntegrity 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…
ICON Kinshasa initiates a Quick Impact project, reintegrating 45 marginalised, unemployed youth in Kinshasa9 youth-led and youth-serving organisations 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.
Education authorities adopt Integrity Clubs for all their schools in South KivuOn 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 organisations, 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.
South Kivu and Kinshasa: thanks to advocacy by CERC-trained students, 150 schools repair their facilitiesWith 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…
Is the DRC keeping its anti-corruption commitments? The civil society reportThe DRC ratified the UN Convention against Corruption in 2010. In 2021, the UNCAC Coalition asked CERC to check, for civil society, whether the country keeps its word.
CERC gets its proposals into the national anti-corruption strategyIn October 2021, the Ministry of Justice invited CERC as an expert to the Anti-Corruption States-General.
Understanding young people to better fight corruption in schoolsA knowledge, attitudes and practices study with 534 students and 89 teachers and head teachers to improve how Integrity Clubs work.
More than 600 education actors mobilised for corruption-free schoolsIn 2021, before launching Integrity Clubs in 150 schools, CERC listened to those who live the school every day.
In Kinshasa, 9 youth organisations turn their research into jobs for marginalised young peopleWith USAID and IREX, CERC helped ten youth organisations in Kinshasa – including organisations led by LGBTQI people and by people living with disabilities – produce…
Corruption and governance in the DRC: CERC takes evidence from the ground to the UNIn July 2021, four years after its founding in Uvira, CERC won special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
A global fight: CERC joins more than 350 organisations against corruptionCorruption crosses borders, and so must the fight against it. In 2020, CERC joined two global networks – and turned membership into action: a civil society report on…
Students participate in building schools that are responsive to their needsMillions of children in schools in the Democratic Republic of the Congo learn in buildings that did not meet minimum norms and standards.
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.
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.
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…
When students report problems, schools improve: one problem in three fixed!With DevelopmentCheck, 810 students in 54 Integrity Clubs got 32% of the problems they reported fixed.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.
Integrity Clubs: a model first launched by CERC in Uvira to transform Congolese schoolsIt 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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