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The purpose to advocate this
move is for the need to support civil society
and to facilitate and harmonize the planned activities
of the CIAA.
Presently, the CIAA is also working in ten pilot
districts: Jhapa, Morang, Parsa, Dhanusha, Chitwan,
Rupandehi, Kaski, Banke, Dang, Kailali.The reasons
this project plans to work in the same pilot districts
are for the need to support civil society, to
raise constructive public opinion regarding their
rights and duties to fight against corruption
and to complement the planned work of the CIAA,
where CIAA's capacity to deal with corruption
complaints is being strengthened by the CIAA project.
Like state actions against corruption that have
been taken up by the CIAA, this project also aims
to mobilize civil society members to fight corruption.
The CIAA project mainly addresses to strengthen
the HMG offices, whereas this project will address
the problems which are outside the remit of the
CIAA project. This project will address the following
problems which are beyond the plan of the CIAA
project:-
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Lack of public
awareness about complaint procedures and the
damaging effects of corruption. |
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Local people fear that
any complaints they make against HMG personnel
will probably be ignored / and will have negative
effects for their work. |
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The lack of commitment
of local civil society organizations in combating
local level corruption and advocating against
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For this purpose, the
project requires collective action and coalition
building between the civil society, line agencies,
CIAA, GGCs, District Administration Offices (DAOs),
Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (FNCCI), Police system, Justice System
and the media. This project will coordinate to
establish its links to these collaborators and
promote dialogues with them. Such links will exert
extensive force to persons in position to be cautious
in delivering better services to the people. The
emphasis will be laid upon the need of joint collaboration
and co-ordination among all the stakeholders involved
in corruption control. The project longs to work
mainly with civil society at the local level utilizing
their resources, strengths and commitment to fight
corruption through intervention on both supply
and demand side of corruption.
To strengthen the campaigns, the project plans
to run anti-corruption advocacy, public hearings,
setting up Civic complaint hearing units and civic
cells for corruption monitoring, disseminating
information on anti-corruption and exposing illegal
activities. The members from the civil society
organizations will be trained on anti-corruption
advocacy skills, which will help them developing
their capacity in finding the cases based on facts
and figures. Ten pilot districts will hold series
of dialogues, trainings and advocacy sessions,
correspondingly publish bulletins for general
public/civil society representatives to encourage
active anti-corruption movement.
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