We help young people, communities and institutions in the DRC build integrity: we educate, monitor public services, research, and advocate for reform – and we measure what changes.
Integrity Clubs in secondary schools of South Kivu and Kinshasa in 2022, up from 20 in Uvira in 2018.
School children trained since 2017 as young integrity monitors of their schools and public services.
Of the problems identified by students, one in three was fixed thanks to their advocacy.
Students in Uvira studying in safer conditions thanks to Integrity Club monitoring (2018).
Teachers (278) and school principals (138) trained in integrity building in 2022.
Education actors brought together in 2021 for consultations on integrity and accountability in schools.
Policymakers at two consultation workshops in Kinshasa and Bukavu (2023).
Bills on Integrity Clubs and integrity education taken to the National Assembly (2023–2024).
Development works best when young people take part in solving their community’s problems: when they work with their leaders so that their needs are met and public commitments are kept. To get there, we combine four approaches.
We study corruption problems and draw findings and evidence that serve as a baseline for better-informed debate and new anti-corruption projects.
We build and support partnerships and coalitions of civil society organisations to fight corruption more effectively.
We engage citizens and young people to promote integrity more actively in their schools and communities.
We hold policy dialogues with officials and policymakers on anti-corruption strategies.
Five programmes, each with its own focus, built on the same idea: integrity is learned and practised.
Problems we are addressing: Corruption in education has a significant impact on the ability of young people to access future opportunities and contribute to…
Highlight204 Integrity Clubs and 2,250 students in 150 schools of South Kivu and Kinshasa (2022); 33% of the problems they reported fixed.
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CERC’s provides training and mentoring on building institutional integrity and anti-corruption helping local governments, ministries, agencies, public…
HighlightIntegrity assessments, integrity plans and training for ministries, local governments, public enterprises and civil society.
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the justice sector institutions lack the capacity and independence to advance its own reform and provide quality,…
HighlightA social alert system in three Kinshasa courts and integrity clubs in four universities, with RCN Justice & Démocratie (2024).
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is working hard to advance the implementation and enforcement of provisions under both Chapter II (Preventive measures)
HighlightThe first civil society parallel report on the DRC’s implementation of the UNCAC, with about 100 recommendations (2021).
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the number of victims of human trafficking is estimated at more than one million, most of them victims of forced…
HighlightAdvocacy with the Ministry of Justice for laws that criminalise all forms of trafficking, and research on how corruption enables it.
DiscoverWhat our programmes have changed, area by area, with the reports that document it.
7 projects with international donors and partners since 2017: US$732,189.78 received and accounted for.
Citizens and students report on their schools, health centres and public services – and the authorities can act on facts.
Donors, institutions and civil society: let’s scale up what works, together.
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