Through the years, TI-Z has been supporting the engagement of stakeholders in communities and districts, facilitating the holding of duty bearers and service providers to account. Through this work, Ti-Z has set itself to respond to the following realities and situation on the ground.
There has been an observable and growing concern of social or citizens’ apathy towards corruption. Corruption doesn’t happen in a vacuum, there is always someone who knows. There is generally a lack of drive to report and act. Partly, this is due to the lack of action on the part of government through Law Enforcement Agencies on corruption. This has not motivated citizens to report.
There hasn’t been a strong link between service delivery challenges and corruption, and this makes it difficult to pursue effectively the issues affecting them.
There are few and lone voices that are concerned about corruption and lack of efficient service delivery. The few voices do not feel supported to purse these issues due to lack of community support.
To have a sustainable fight against corruption, we need to have a united voice from communities, stakeholders, who can identify and report corruption to have increased transparency and accountability in service delivery, through reporting and acting on corruption.
Active citizenship is necessary to enhance and expand social action and oversight at the local and national level. We will work to support efforts aimed at enhancing citizens’ voices and the desired impact is that citizens in all parts of the country, will not only have the voice but use their individual agency to demand accountability and act against corruption. We would like to see citizens, together with the media and whistle-blowers, taking centre stage in exposing and shining light on corrupt activities in their local environment.
