Amid rising corruption, most Africans say they risk retaliation if they speak up

In the words of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (2016), “as both a product and cause of poor governance and weak institutions, corruption is one of the major costs and impediments to structural transformation in Africa.” Corruption not only wastes scarce public resources that could instead be used for public services and meaningful development, but also weakens democracy by erodi. [...] As the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (2016) notes, corruption hinders the delivery of public services such as water, sanitation, education, and health care and limits the provision of key infrastructure such as electricity and roads, in addition to increasing the cost of investment, thus reducing investment inflows that could be critical for job creation and trade. [...] In addition to the temptations of emergency assistance funds, some countries struggling to cope with the pandemic relaxed accountability policies designed to ensure oversight in the use of public funds in order to fast-track the procurement of essential goods and services (Africa Defense Forum, 2022). [...] Regional coordination of national partners in about 35 countries is provided by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in South Africa, and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. [...] Institute of Peace, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Open Society Foundations - Africa, Luminate, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the European Union Commission, the World Bank Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda, the.