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Alliances for Africa | 31 January, 2019

Introduction

Alliances for Africa organized six consultative meetings in Ebonyi and Enugu state as kick off

intervention for the MacArthur project on institutionalizing anti-corruption, accountability

and transparency for good governance in Ebonyi and Enugu state in Southeast, Nigeria.

The consultative meeting is a platform for discussion on strategies to tackle corruption

among other issues in the two project states. The meeting had a fair representation of

participants selected from among different sector of the communities in both project states.

Some of the selected participants include; lecturers, traditional rulers, persons living with

disability, traditional rulers, and faith based organizations, Albinos, youths, students, security

agency, civil society organizations and representatives from ministries, departments and

agencies. The meeting lasted three days in each state with fifty participants for each day,

making three hundred participants for the six days consultative meeting. Blessing Duru

facilitated the meeting with the assistance of Anozie Chinwendu, the communications Officer

for Alliances for Africa. Some of the highlight of the meeting include;

 Designing of score cards

 Designing citizen’s report cards

 Identify sustainable tackling components

 Develop contents for drafting of the MOU for commitments by aspirants

 Establish citizen’s watch dog and whistle blowers