Fostering Public Finance Integrity and Asset Recovery and Empowering People, Groups and Communities for a Corruption-free MENA Region.
Brief
Rasheed for Integrity and Transparency designed this project using an inclusive approach, focusing on the need to mobilize all sectors of society, from key individuals to groups and communities, in order to demonstrate that corruption and impunity can be challenged and to enable people to play their role in the fight against corruption
Outcomes/Activities
1. Prepare policy paper on complaints receiving mechanisms in Jordan, as well as the views of the Jordan Bar Association.
2. Prepare policy paper on financial disclosure in Jordan.
3.Rasheed TI organized nine training workshops to cover five different topics: transparency & national integrity system, research skills for policy writing, participatory budgeting, debates, media & advocacy
4. Rasheed TI organized a competition on preparing policy papers with around 50 participants (aged between 18-30 years old and including both female and male).
They worked on three different subjects: Financial Declaration, Reporting Corruption, and Participatory Budgeting.
5. Rasheed TI matched this activity with capacity building, training the youth on research skills to write policy papers, on the art and craft of debating, and on the concepts of integrity, transparency and how they affects everyone’s life. The youth involved learned to deliver messages in plain and straightforward language, they also learned practical applications for lobbying and obtaining the large-scale support, including what channels to use with a focus on Social media. They also prepared nine policy papers and nine videos supporting these policy papers.
6. Rasheed TI-JO has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Jordanian Anti-Corruption Commission (JIACC) to cooperate in Experience exchange, Technical Support, Information exchange, Media cooperation, Studies and Training.
Which will allow Rasheed TI-JO to be involved as an effective part in fighting corruption and enhancing the National Integrity System in Jordan.
7. In order to enhance integrity and accountability in managing public funds, Rasheed TI-JO decided to create a dashboard that captures government commitment, this dashboard is now a great source for civil societies, private sector and public sector to reflect progress made from government in these sections.
8. Rasheed TI-JO has launched a capacity-building program for the Jordanian Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission on tools for evaluating the institutional capacity for integrity in the public sector.
9. Rasheed TI-JO monitored Jordan’s commitment to realize the Sustainable Development Goal-SGD 16 (particularly targets 4, 5 and 10). To this end, our organization produced score cards for several policy areas where relevant legislations and policies were given a percentage of successful implementation and progress towards SGD 16.
SDG Summary 2017
The following areas were scrutinized, anti-Money Laundering, beneficial ownership, asset recovery, arms trafficking, anti-corruption framework and institutions, private sector.
