Transparency International NGO Short-term Database Consultancy in Nairobi - Kenya

Transparency International NGO Short-term Database Consultancy in Nairobi - Kenya

Transparency International Kenya (TI-Kenya) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 in Kenya with the aim of developing a transparent and corruption-free society through good governance and social justice initiatives.

TI-Kenya is one of the autonomous
chapter of the global Transparency International movement that are all bound by a common vision of a corruption-free world.

The vision of TI-Kenya is a corruption free Kenya.

The mission is to champion the fight against corruption by promoting integrity,
transparency and accountability.

Brief on the Social Accountability Project
Audit accountability for public spending and adherence to the rule of law are important
aspects in the fight against corruption.

The reports generated by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) and Controller of Budget (CoB) are key accountability tools that highlight
the malfeasance within the public sector.

However, despite the high importance of these reports, little civic action has been witnessed over the years, and this is mostly occasioned by the fact that Parliament and County Assemblies, media, CSOs and other relevant actors lack the requisite skills and capacity to act on these reports.

Equally, Parliamentary reports on the Auditor General findings unfortunately are excessively long, fail to highlight the most urgent issues, do not summarize what has been resolved and what is still unresolved, and contain repeated warnings every year to accounting officers that seem to rarely get acted upon.

They also do very little to demonstrate parliamentary or executive action on unresolved issues.

To this extent therefore, there is need to have a platform through which audit queries can easily be accessed by the public.

Citizens should also be able to track the public audit process and get these reports in their simplified form, alongside detailed trend analysis for effective consumption.

The specific tasks of the developer will include;