Our Priorities
The DRC scores 20 out of 100 on the Corruption Perceptions Index. If the reconstruction of the East is not built on integrity, its money will not reach the people – and the war will come back.
Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2025Integrity has been at the heart of our mission since 2017. Now it guides each of our six priorities.
If the people who come back to serve the State act with integrity, if citizens – pupils, parents, patients, displaced people, traders – can follow and report what is happening, if taxes are paid digitally and published, and if every dollar of reconstruction and emergency aid is public and checked, then services come back, trust comes back, and peace holds.
Young people who monitor their schoolOur six priorities, 2027–2030
Schools and health centres that truly serve people, wherever we work – and, in the East as it emerges from war, a clean reconstruction.
01Citizen monitoring · EduCheck · HealthCheck · GovCheck · Integrity ClubsYoung people engaged for inclusive services
That young people, girls and boys, take part inclusively in improving schools and health centres, in Kinshasa, South Kivu and wherever we work.
02GovCheck · integrity leadership courseAn honest administration coming back
That the officials who return to serve the State are chosen for their integrity and answer to the people.
03EduCheck · Integrity ClubsSchools rebuilt and given back to children
That every school paid for is really rebuilt, and that children go back to it.
04HealthCheck · tracking of emergency fundsHealth centres that work, everywhere
That health centres receive what is meant for them – including emergency funds such as those of the Ebola response – even where the State cannot go.
05GovCheck · revenue monitoringPublic revenue collected digitally and accounted for
That taxes and duties reach the public treasury – not armed groups, checkpoints or private pockets – and that citizens can see what is collected and how it is spent.
06Social alert system · GovCheck (govcheck.cerc.cd)Accountable reconstruction that builds peace
That every dollar of reconstruction, funded by the Government or its partners, is public and checked.All together.
That’s how we build a peace with integrity.
Integrity does not come from one project or one organisation working alone. It comes when citizens monitor, institutions answer, and partners fund and follow what works. This is how we combine our work:
Our four levers
Diagnose
We study corruption problems and draw findings and evidence that serve as a baseline for better-informed debate and new anti-corruption projects.
Build coalitions
We build and support partnerships and coalitions of civil society organisations to fight corruption more effectively.
Engage youth
We engage citizens and young people to promote integrity more actively in their schools and communities.
Dialogue
We hold policy dialogues with officials and policymakers on anti-corruption strategies.
Where we work
We start where we have our networks, and follow the State as it returns to the East.
- 2027–2030
Kinshasa and South Kivu
Citizen monitoring of schools, health centres, public services and the implementation of the UNCAC continues and deepens where we have our networks, with our apps and Integrity Clubs.
- 2027
Uvira, pilot city
First monitoring of officials, schools and health centres, and a measure of the starting point, with the province and communities.
- 2028–2029
South Kivu
Fizi and the other territories where the administration returns, building on the lessons from Uvira.
- 2030
North Kivu
Beni, the next pilot city announced by the Government, then the other areas that reopen.
What we’re doing
Monitoring, training and alerting – with our own tools and with partners.
EduCheckPupils, parents and teachers report on their school, and follow each problem until it is fixed.
HealthCheckCitizens report what their health centre lacks – medicines, staff, water, electricity.
GovCheckCitizens rate public services and monitor public projects and reconstruction.
UNCAC TrackerFollow how the DRC implements the UN Convention against Corruption.Integrity ClubsStudents trained to monitor their school and to say no to corruption.Integrity leadershipTraining for public servants and institutions in integrity and public service.
CERCStrategy 2027–2030
“Corruption is not a side effect of the conflict: it finances it and prolongs it.”Read the strategy
