Commonwealth Business Council led GTF programme

GTF Number 272

Business Action Against Corruption (BAAC)

Key Facts

• Start date: 8 August 2008
• End date: 31 March 2013
• Amount of DFID funding £2,798,628

The CBC’s project is a public-private initiative aimed at tackling corruption and supporting growth and improved services for 200 million citizens. Each of the national programmes will set up consultative working structures to implement nationally defined strategies especially improving public services, business climate, and standards of leadership behaviour. It will develop continental governance norms and implementation mechanisms, and strengthen capacity. The key outputs will be:

• 10-12 joint public-private national anti-corruption programmes;
• the development of continental standards in cooperation with regional/continental structures such as SADC and African Peer Review Mechanism;
• capacity building, communication and advocacy using civil society and the media.