Dear eFindings subscriber, Welcome to the monthly issue of eFindings. To view the PDF reports, download Adobe Acrobat Reader ===> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. 1. Findings 274: Fighting Corruption the Celtel Way: Lessons from the front line
written by Mohamed Ibrahim If you "google" corruption and Africa you get over 25 million hits.1 Such is the scale of the problem. Yet Celtel is a success story from the poorest and, according to Transparency International rankings, the most corrupt part of the world – sub Saharan Africa. Today Celtel provides 15 million Africans with mobile phone service across 15 countries of sub Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Five of these countries are in the bottom decile of the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/english/find274.htm (HTML)
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/english/find274.pdf (PDF)
2. Infobrief 136: Ghana: the AIDS Response project (GARFUND)
This Infobrief was excerpted from Implementation Completion Report no.36119
The specific objectives of this project - financed through an IDA credit of $28.7 million (2002-05) – were to : (i) provide resources that would enable the government to implement a balanced, diversified multi-sector response, engaging all relevant government sectors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots initiatives; (ii) to expand contributions made by the Ministry of Health ( MOH ) engage civil society in the fight against AIDS; and (iii) finance eligible activities conducted by civil society organizations, including NGOs, community-based organizations (CBOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs), trade and professional associations, associations of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), districts, and line ministries to ensure a rapid multi-sector scaling-up of HIV prevention and care activities in all regions and at all administrative levels. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/infobeng/infob136.htm (HTML)
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/infobeng/infob136.pdf (PDF)
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