Corruption in Tanzania: The Case for Circumstantial Evidence
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Chapter 1:  Corruption and Circumstantial Evidence
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The seven priority areas of NACSAP are as follows:

  • The rule of law and legal framework is to provide will facilitate sectoral law review and the creation of an enabling environment that restores confidence in the judiciary and law enforcement agencies.
  • Financial discipline and management is intended to reduce and eradicate the siphoning of public funds by unfaithful and deceitful public officials who collude with a third party outside public institutions, on the one hand, and to increase revenue collection to finance the provision of social services and goods to the general public, as well as a recipe for economic growth, on the other.
  • Procurement requires strict compliance with transparent administration procedures for the tendering for and the procurement of goods and services.
  • Public education includes the creating of awareness in and the sensitisation of the citizens regarding their rights and responsibilities; this would involve the creation of innovative educational programmes that would further the awareness among the citizenry of the harm caused by corruption and inflicted on the economy, the ultimate purpose of which is to transform the fabric and values of the society.
  • Public service reforms (i.e., capacity building) would help citizens and civil servants, likewise, understand that public officers are not ‘masters’ but ‘servants’ of the people, to whom they are accountable for their actions; public servants deserve a fair remuneration package.
  • Whistle-blowers and witness protection call for cognisance of the fact that informers and citizens who come forward to the law enforcement agencies and report on corruption incidents are not protected. A legal framework has to be put in place to provide adequate protection and give confidence to players in anticorruption programmes.
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