About Us

We empower citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups, we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

Corruption is an ingrained behavior – this must be taken into consideration. In order to change this attitude, we need to cooperate with civil society, media, government and the international community. Government should be an active partner from the very start, just as the community. Focus in the community should be on citizen monitoring, using wiki solutions, rather than relying too much on whistle blowing.

Citizen participation in governance and development processes is based on the constitutional foundation which places sovereign power on the people of Kenya. It is this power that has been delegated to state actors at the national and county levels. This sovereignty must be respected and institutionalised in all processes of governance including in the Education and Health sectors. Public participation is also one of the national values and principles of governance stipulated in article 10 for which we all have a duty to promote and exercise as patriotic citizens.

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. The A4T project was first implemented in Uganda and Zambia before being transferred to Kenya in May 2015.

In Kenya, the project was first implemented in Embakasi Sub-County alone as a pilot, before being expanded to cover the entire Nairobi County. Currently, the project is operating in 11 other counties among them (Baringo, Homabay, Isiolo, Kakamega, Kiambu, Kisumu, Makueni, Meru, Siaya, Uasin Gishu, Wajir) with the support of local partner organisations, through funding from URAIA – DANIDA.