2017–2021Completed
More inclusive youth engagement in improving public services in South Kivu
Our first strategy: training young monitors to follow schools and health centres in South Kivu, with user committees.
Our strategies since 2017
Our strategy
Since 2017, three successive strategies have guided our work. Each builds on the lessons of the one before: from South Kivu to the whole country, from schools to public services, and today the reconstruction of the East.
The DRC scores 20 out of 100 on the Corruption Perceptions Index. When public money is not managed with integrity and transparency, schools, health centres and roads are not built, public services fail, poverty deepens and development stalls.
Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2025Integrity has been at the heart of our mission since 2017. Now it guides each of our five 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 five 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.
02EduCheck · Integrity ClubsSchools that meet the standards
Schools exist, but many do not meet the standards children are entitled to. That every school offers safe classrooms, latrines, clean water, qualified teachers present every day, and no illegal fees. With EduCheck, pupils report on their school and follow each problem until it is fixed.
03HealthCheck · 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.
04GovCheck · 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.
05Social 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.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.
CERCOur mission
“We make sure that public services meet the needs of everyone who uses them, and that public money goes where it should.”Read the strategy
Three strategies, one ambition
2022–2026Current
Promoting accountability and inclusion in education and health services
A sector strategy for education and health, with gender equality and inclusion at its heart, in Kinshasa and South Kivu.
2027–2030Upcoming
Let’s build a peace with integrity, together
Public services that truly serve people, wherever we work, and a clean reconstruction of the East as it emerges from war.
What changed from one strategy to the next
| 2017–2021 | 2022–2026 | 2027–2030 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where | South Kivu: Uvira, Walungu and Bukavu | Kinshasa and South Kivu | South Kivu, North Kivu and Kinshasa |
| Priorities | Schools and health centres | Education and health, gender and inclusion | Five areas: youth and services, schools, health, public revenue, reconstruction |
| How | Community Integrity Building, Integrity Clubs, gender mainstreaming | Community Integrity Building, user committees (COPA, CODESA), EduCheck | Our four citizen monitoring apps and the social alert system |
| Our team | 9 staff in Uvira, over 60 volunteers | 13 staff in Kinshasa, Uvira and Bukavu, over 3,000 volunteers | A national team; the Bukavu office closed since 2025, monitoring continues remotely |
