The President and the government have consistently reiterated their desire to root out corruption and to make government more accountable and responsive to the plight of the citizen. While measures have been taken to reorganise the bodies of executive power, the core issues of the government’s governance initiative, greater accountability and honesty on the part of public officials will need to be enhanced. This Project is designed to promote and help achieve the government’s administrative reform objectives in this regard, as well as to promote another key government objective, the promotion of human security. The Project is part of UNDP’s systemic governance programme approach that envisages focus on two parts of the policy process: policy formulation and policy management

The above will be achieved by:

1) development of the capacity of the Ombudsman’s office for processing complaints, strengthening specialist expertise in specific areas of human rights, better access to the Office at regional, district and municipal level.

2) development of the capacity of the Accounting Chamber and its presence at regional, district and municipal level.

3) strengthening of the role of Parliament and its capacity to respond to inputs of the Accounting Chamber and the Ombudsman, and raise human rights awareness of Parliament, elected authorities at regional and local levels and executive branches of government.

4) developing the infrastructure of civil society for the promotion, protection and realisation of human rights and for the effective functioning of the Ombudsman’s office

5) building a support infrastructure for advocacy and effective submission of complaints to the state administration at central, regional and sub-regional levels

This will be done in close co-operation and partnership with UNDP Thematic Trust Fund, international donors, etc.