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CENTAL Facilitate Corruption Prevention Workshop for German Agro Action |
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The Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia on Wednesday, April 1, 2010 began facilitating the first in a series of corruption prevention workshops for staff and partners of German Agro Action in Liberia. The workshop took place in the conference room of Child Fund Liberia and focused on the understanding what is corruption, it effective on development and mechanisms that would remedial actions that would be taken to prevent corruption in the work place. The workshop also allowed participants to discuss and understand the GAA internal guidance on the prevention of corruption.
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TI Chair Pays Visit to Liberia |
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The Chairperson of Transparency International Hugette Labelle paid an official visit to Liberia from March 14 – 16, 2010 and all meetings were held on March 15. While in the country, the TI Chair met with the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Executive Chairperson Frances Johnson Morris of the Liberia Anti-corruption Commission (LACC) and other Commissioners of LACC and Governance Commission. She held discussions with Auditor General John Sembe Morlu, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative for Program, Marie Threase Keating and Open Society for West Africa (OSIWA) Country Representative, Joe Pemagbi and members of the Liberian Media. Importantly, Madam Labelle met with the Board of Directors and Staff of the CENTAL.
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CENTAL Condemns Jobs Preference for Unity Party Partisans |
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010: The Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia wishes to express its dismay and dissatisfaction over statement made by the President of Liberia during the convention of the Unity Party (UP) in Gbarnga.
CENTAL believes that the statement that Ministers should employ UP partisans is counter productive to the reform of the civil service and sets a bad precedent in a bid to strengthen democracy and institutionalize fairness and transparency in government.
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CENTAL Holds Media Roundtable in Monrovia |
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… In Partnership TA/HU,
December 11, 2009: A workshop to discuss proactive media involvement in the fight against corruption has ended in Monrovia. Held in partnership with Trust Africa/Humanity United, the roundtable is part of activities under the citizens’ “Right to Know” campaign, which is geared toward empowering citizens with advocacy tools that enable them to constructively and vigorously engage policy makers and implementers in demand of more accountability and transparency. The event took place at the Krystal Oceanview Hotel and called to attendance close to 20 media professionals from media institutions, Liberia Media Center and public anti-corruption institutions like the LACC.
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Whistleblower Roundtable Climaxes Nation-wide NAS Promotion Campaign |
 The CENTAL/OSIWA project to promote the Liberian National Anti-Corruption Strategy, a Government and Civil Society supported blue print for combating endemic corruption, has ended with a roundtable to plan drafting of a whistleblower protection legislation for the country. The roundtable which brought together stakeholders from Government, media and civil society, was held at the Krystal Oceanview Hotel in Monrovia. |
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