eased to announce that we have been granted Special Consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the UN’s central platform for reflection, debate, and innovative thinking on sustainable development.
From 5 to 6 August 2021, a second training to build the capacity of the Anti-Corruption Research Centre (CERC) programme staff on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and its review mechanism took place in Kinshasa.
second consultative workshop with 12 senior officials of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education to discuss the challenges of transparency and accountability in the education sector.
CERC held a consultative workshop on 26 July 2021 with state and non-state actors, including parents’ organizations, teachers’ unions and schools’ management bodies to discuss transparency and accountability issues in education sector.
The Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Research Centre, Mr. Heri Bitamala, and his Executive Assistant in charge of Advocacy and Policy Engagement, Mr. Musa Nzamu Jonathan met with the Ministry of Justice officials, on Friday 14 May 2021, to discuss UNCAC implementation and Civil Society participation in the review process in the DR Congo.
To tackle transnational, large-scale and high-level forms of corruption, UN member states should task a special intergovernmental expert group with the development of concrete solutions, say 96 organisations in a joint letter.
