Republic of Yemen

UNDP Practice Area: Democratic Governance

Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of the Media and CSOs in Transparency Advocacy

Project Award number: 00049645

Duration: April 2008 - December 2010

Budget: USD 1,389,000

Sources of funding:

UNDP TRAC US$ 1,198,000
DGTTF US$ 200,000

Delivery as of September 2011: USD 706,216

Implementation Modality: Direct Implementation

Project status: Operationally-Closed

Partners:
Supreme National Anti-Corruption Commission and CSOs.

Responsible Programme Officer(s): Walid Baharoon

Brief Description:
In order to further increase the momentum of the anti-corruption drive within Yemen, this project will support the role of civil society in advocating for greater transparency in policy processes. The project will contribute to achieving UNDP's Country Programme Output on Enhanced national capacities to demand and deliver transparency and accountability of public officials.

• Capacity strengthening, networking, and elevation of standards of journalists at the national level to promote the exchange of independent and pluralist information on corruption issues.
• Training in public resources monitoring techniques and awareness raising among NGOs on the concept of access to information to enable them to devise access to information advocacy strategies at the governorate level.

Key Activities:

• Train journalists in anti-corruption investigative journalism.
• Train local district officials and 18 CSOs in public resources monitoring in 9 governorates.
• Provide grants to CSOs to conduct access to information campaigns.
• Train CSOs in corruption measurement methodologies.

Among the most significant success story that could be mentioned is the establishment of Civil Society Org Coalition for Anticorruption. The core of this coalition is the group of NGOs that forming Project Partners, three on the national level and five on governorates level. But to reach coalition targets, the project worked hard to prepare CSO partners through providing training programs to come up with the following Deliverables:

• Taking into consideration Yemen's decentralization policy, conduct an assessment of Yemeni CSO capacities in transparency advocacy and public resources monitoring at the governorate/district level.
• Provide recommendation on how to establish a sustainable mechanism/platform to strengthen civil society interaction with the local government and government officials, parliamentarians, media and SNACC.
• Devise quality criteria (indicators) for activities and means of verification to determine if quality criteria have been met.
• Issue a booklet (guide) in Arabic on public resources monitoring and transparency advocacy for CSOs.

Evaluation: An evaluation will be conducted at the end of the project.

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