Ongoing partnerships

The Center for Public Integrity has relied heavily on forming partnerships with Mozambican and foreign organisations: the objective of the partnerships is to exchange information and experiences about research, advocacy, the monitoring of governance in general, investigative journalism and training in matters of transparency and integrity.

In Mozambique, CIP has a project (Budget Monitoring at Local Level) together with Associacao Mocambicana para a Democracia (AMODE), Grupo Mocambicano da Divida (GMD) and Liga Mocambicana dos Direitos Humanos (GMD).

CIP is also a member of G20 – Anti-Poverty Civil Society Platform. In 2006, CIP was appointed by G20 as its representative in the governments Anti-Corruption National Forum.

The Centre for Public Integrity has also a partnership with Progov (Project for Democratic Municipal Governance), within which the CIP has done a research into areas of risk and opportunities for corruption in some Mozambican municipalities, and training to mobilize stakeholders and local capacities for Social Control.

Among the organisations identified and contacted abroad are Transparency International (www.transparency.org) and the Institute for Security Studies of South Africa (www.ipocafrica.org). CIP is doing efforts to become a TI Chapter in Mozambique.

In 2006, CIP was involved with TIRI Making Integrity Work (www.tiri.org). With this London-based NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity has done a range of research seeking a greater understanding of the dynamics of the construction of integrity in the post-war transition in Mozambique.

Other partnership under way consists of preparing information about corruption in Mozambique for a study of Global Integrity, a Washington-based NGO (www.globalintegrity.org). The study is called Global Integrity Assessment, and seeks essentially to evaluate the institutions and practices that citizens can use to demand accountability from their governments.

CIP has also a strong relationship with the International Budget Project, under witch is doing a research on budget monitoring in Mozambique. ▄