Account4COVID Webinar Summary: Reflections of an online conversation with some of Africa’s frontline civic actors

Account4COVID, COVID19, CTAP, Fiscal Transparency1 Comment

Background/context With the outbreak of Covid-19, many governments’ health and basic service delivery systems have already been placed under considerable strain and across Africa, fragile health and economic systems are likely to face further planning and budgeting challenges now and in the aftermath of the pandemic. As a result, international financial institutions, private foundations, and…

Côte d’Ivoire and COVID-19: how a political crisis can jeopardize an effective pandemic response

Africa Integrity Indicators, Anti-Corruption, COVID19, Integrity and Anti-Corruption, PoliticsLeave a comment

Unlike its neighbors in West Africa, Cote d’Ivoire was remarkably able to completely stave off the 2014 Ebola pandemic through a strong response rooted in factual scientific information and a strong health care system/campaigns/networks. So far, it has done the same to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but now an unraveling political crisis threatens to completely…

Reaching Out and Checking In: Listening to 70 Partners in a Time of Crisis

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By Jorge Florez and Nada Zohdy Earlier last month, we outlined an initial process to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Global Integrity’s work and that of our partners and allies and shared  our new strategy. Alongside this, we have continued to systematically review the implications of COVID-19 across our projects, our priorities, and…