| Chapter 1: | Corruption and Circumstantial Evidence |
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Apart from MDAs, action plans and implementation of the identified activities, local government reforms have mainstreamed NACSAP, and a guide is now in use to facilitate all 116 local government councils of Mainland Tanzania to implement their individual action plans.
Attention is being emphasised so that, in the preparation of action plans, all sectors should ensure that participation and monitoring by the councils themselves is effectual. Each council is guided by its own peculiar circumstances in addressing corruption as a specific component. There is also the Good Governance Coordination Unit, which was established administratively by the chief secretary in 2001 to coordinate all good governance functions under the minister of state for good governance.52
The Good Governance Coordination Unit collects and processes all data from the different sectors (public, private, civil society, and media), and undertakes the evaluation and monitoring of the NACSAP process on a quarterly basis. All MDAs submit their reports on the implementation of their anticorruption activities to allow political actors to understand and give the required impetus to overcome the scourge. Publicity of the NACSAP findings is disseminated through quarterly reports, and recently the State of Corruption in Tanzania Annual Report 2002 was released for public debate, monitoring, and participation of all stakeholders.53
1.3.1. Analysis of the Magnitude of the Reported Cases
Table 1 and chart 1 conveniently summarise the current data on the recorded scope of the problem nationally, at the level of complaints received on corruption, and action so far taken by the government of Tanzania for the period of January 1995 through May 2007. The practical application of circumstantial evidence is a process and has stages.