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Organizational Profile
The National Accountability Group is a local non-profit, non-governmental, anti-corruption advocacy civil society organization established as a task force in 2001 and re-organized as an organization in July 2004 dedicated to achieving greater accountability, transparency and integrity in private and public affairs. It seeks to curb corruption by holding local and national governments and public duty bearers accountable to the people of Sierra Leone.
NAG is the Local Chapter of the Transparency International global network in Sierra Leone and also works in partnership with the TIRI Network in the United Kingdom and the Anti–Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone.
Vision
Our Vision as part of the Transparency International Movement is to have a country in which the government, the business community, civil society and the daily lives of the people are free from corruption.
Mission
Our Mission is to empower the citizenry of Sierra Leone through information, education and participation, to demand accountability, transparency and integrity from government, the public and private sector and civil society.
Values
Our core values are openness, approachability, honesty, commitment/dedication and comportment.
Aims and Objectives:
1. To create public awareness on the damaging effects and the extent of corruption in Sierra Leone.
2. To advocate for the elimination of the factors that leads to corruption, impropriety and injustice.
3. To provide evidence based research on the general state of the public and private sector for proper accountability.
4. To make local and national government institutions and functionaries, private sector and civil society accountability to the people of Sierra Leone.
5. To assist existing national established structures of horizontal mechanisms of accountability in the elimination of corruption, impropriety and injustice.
6. To foster linkages with national, sub regional and intergovernmental stakeholders whose aims and objectives are inconsonance with those of the National Accountability Group (NAG) and the Transparency International Movement.
NAG seeks to serve as a catalyst/facilitator to ensure accountability, transparency and integrity by bringing together relevant actors from government, civil society, the business sector and the media to promote greater transparency in business and government, to work for citizen’s rights to information and to lobby governments to implement anti–corruption reforms.
Our four core program areas are as follows:
* Research and Surveys
* Public Education, Awareness Raising and Coalition Building
* Monitoring
* Institutional Capacity Building
GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION:
The Organization is reviewing its membership, Governance Structure including its constitution. It presently has a temporal advisory board of 6 people who are the main policy making body that supervises the operation of the organization. The Advisory Board is headed by a Chairman.
There is the membership, which is made of professional people representing various specializations and sometimes provided technical support to the organization.
NAG has a Secretariat headed by an Executive Director with staff who implement the programs of the organization. The Staff are all employed on a yearly contract as a result of the low revenue base of the organization.
PROGRAMS:
* Research:
Case studies and evidence based research analyses to outline the extent, effects and trends of corruption in Sierra Leone. The press, policy makers, politicians, businesses, NGOs and donors will use the reports produced to identify problem areas and priorities for reform and focus debate on ensuring concrete actions are taken.
* Monitoring
NAG will put in place the mechanisms to monitor the Poverty Reduction Strategies process agreed between donors and government, ensure proper government service delivery and public resources are used to meet Sierra Leone’s development goals and the Millennium Development Goal targets. In particular, NAG will encourage and support the development of accountable and transparent elected local councils and monitor the implementation of the Local Government Act (2004).
* Institution and Capacity Building
This will involve the sensitization and training of key groups (religious leaders, teachers, media practitioners, the Auditor General, Parliamentary Committees, and the Private Sector) about the importance of transparency, accountability and participation, and the diagnostic skills required to identify corruption. In particular, NAG will work with and assist existing national structures that promote accountability, especially the Anti Corruption Commission, the Media, Parliamentary Oversight Committees and the Auditor General’s office in the elimination of corruption.
* Public Awareness, Education, Coalition building
NAG will work to create public awareness about the damaging effects and extent of corruption in Sierra Leone. Moreover, it will advocate for the elimination of the factors that lead to corruption. By organizing educational programmers for Religious Leaders, children, teachers and the media, NAG will empower those actors who can ensure a sustainable solution to the problem of corruption.
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Profile of NAG
Accountability is important to democratic societies in providing opportunities for those who govern and manage our affairs to account for, explain, and justify their use of their offices of power and influence. It thus allows citizens to compare what government and other power holders – civil society, private sector, and public sector say they are doing with what they are actually doing. It therefore helps to sustain democracy by generating informed consent.