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Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL) represented by its Executive Director, Thomas Doe Nah has been invited to attend the first high-level meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Washington DC, USA, from July 11 to 13, 2011.  

During the course of the meeting, Nah will serve as a panelist during an interactive discussion on “fighting Corruption” sharing an open government experience related to anti-corruption, reflecting on what has worked and why, and drawing out key lessons for open government approaches in this area. The moderator will then ask panelists a series of questions aimed at provoking frank discussion and debate, and will then open the discussion up to questions and comments from the audience. The discussion will be moderator by  Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution.

CENTAL has written both Houses of the Liberian Legislature requesting their review and passage of the draft Code of Conduct for public officials and employees and the Whistle-blowers Protection Act.  The letters indicated that though the legislature in the last five years passed several important laws, these two laws were linchpins critical to fighting corruption and impunity.