Campaigning against Post-conflict Corruption was a 13-month project implemented from September 2007 to August 2008 in Kavrepalanchowk and Chitwan districts of the central region of Nepal. The project was funded by Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF), USA and implemented by WVAF as the lead in collaboration with WVAF district partners namely, Village Women Welfare Centre (VWWC), Kavrepalanchowk, Rural Women Development Center (RWDC), Chitwan, Transparency International Nepal Chapter (TI-NC) Chitwan Support Group, local authorities and civil society organizations. The project focused on corruption in post-conflict reconstruction of public infrastructures. The primary target groups of the project included poor and marginalized groups like Dalits (so-called untouchable caste communities) and indigenous people of Kavre and Chitwan districts who were badly affected by the decade long violent conflict.
The goal of the project:
To establish two project Districts as corruption free Districts and as such establish them as model Districts for good governance.
Project Objectives:
- Increase peoples' awareness about corruption in infrastructure construction related works at the local level by organizing and mobilizing civic societies and various stakeholders in the anti-corruption campaigns,
- Liaise and network with relevant local government authorities and line agencies for strong and explicit support in combating post-conflict corruption, and
- Install community based monitoring mechanisms to examine where and how corruption is actually taking place and initiates actions to limit corruption.
Project Results:
- People trained on good governance and post-conflict anti-corruption issues
- Local government officials providing strong and active support to the post-conflict anti-corruption awareness raising and monitoring activities
- Corruption prone areas identified in infrastructure reconstruction sector in the targeted districts
- Anti-corruption awareness efforts launched
- Increased access to information by communities
- District Anti-corruption Networks (DANs) established and strengthened
- Anti-corruption Community Enabling Centers established and strengthened
- Public corruption complaints processed
- Community and local government capacity to fight against post-conflict corruption enhanced
- People's awareness about corruption in infrastructure construction related works increased
- The decrease in the level of corruption in local governance
Major activities of the project included:
- Train People on good governance and post-conflict anti-corruption issues
- Increasing post-conflict anti-corruption awareness raising and monitoring activities
- Identify corruption-prone areas in infrastructure reconstruction sector in the targeted districts
- Launch Anti-corruption awareness efforts Increase access to information by communities
- Establish and strengthen District Anti-corruption Networks (DANs)
- Establishing and strengthening Anti-corruption Community Enabling Centers established
- Process Public corruption complaints
- Enhancing Community and local government capacity to fight against post-conflict corruption
