Our Focus Areas
Our six-year strategic plan (2022 – 2028) seeks to champion for ethical values and behaviors, shine a spotlight on the corrupt, and contribute towards a culture of transparency and accountability, which will lead to greater equity and quality of public service delivery, and ultimately improve the quality of life for Kenyans. The strategic road map will also pay special attention towards the full implementation of chapter six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, on leadership and integrity.
Citizen Demand and Oversight
This area will focus on concerns around inadequate enforcement of constitutional and legal provisions on leadership, integrity, and anticorruption; normalisation of corruption at individual and societal levels; corrupt, unethical, and unaccountable leadership; and inefficient, ineffective, and non-responsive public service delivery and humanitarian aid systems.
Under this result area, TI-Kenya will focus its efforts on four sectors ; Security and Justice, Health, Education and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sectors.
Strategic areas of Intervention include:
Citizen (Individual) and Leadership Integrity
- To promote ethical values, norms, and behavior among citizens.
- To support citizens to demand for integrity and hold leaders accountable.
Access to Public Services and Aid Resources
- To contribute to enhanced access to responsive high quality public services and aid resources.
Access to Justice
- To increase access to appropriate/effective redress mechanisms for victims of corruption-related injustices.
Natural Resources and Climate Governance
The main concern for this strategic pillar will be mis-governance of natural resources and environment; corruption; inadequate knowledge/ information; as well as non-transparent natural resources and climate governance processes. The priority sectors that this pillar will focus on include Land, Extractives, Environment, Energy, and Blue Economy.
Strategic areas of Intervention include:
Extractives, Land and Energy
- Undertake research and conduct corruption risk assessments and mitigation in the sector.
- Enabling regulatory environment around blue economy.
- Institutional strengthening to facilitate capacity development of relevant institutions.
- Community empowerment.
- Movement building.
- Public Interest Litigation.
Climate Governance
- Undertake collaborative corruption risk assessments, analysis, and development of mitigation measures.
- Support reforms and implementation of climate governance-focused legal, policy and/ or institutional frameworks.
- Raise public awareness and consciousness on climate governance rights, including claim-making and holding duty bearers to account.
- Engage in collaborations towards good governance of climate finance resources.
Public Finance Management
This focus area pays attention to transparency of public procurement processes; illicit financial flows; efficiency of public spending; and quality of financial oversight systems. The key sectors of focus under this result area shall be Health, WASH, Education, and Public Finance, while the natural resources sector will be integrated;
Expected Outcomes
- Increased transparency and sustainability of public revenue generation.
- Increased transparency and accountability in management and oversight of public resources.
- Improved private sector (business) integrity and ethics.
- Improved accountability over public resources management.
Institutional Development
This strategic focus area seeks to build upon TI-Kenya’s track record while further developing its internal capacities and sustainability. Attention will be paid to the quality of human resources and governance/ oversight; internal organisational systems and structures; planning, monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning; ICT, media, and strategic communications; as well as institutional and financial resilience.
Expected Outcomes
- Adherence to all applicable statutory requirements.
- Existence and use of a robust, secure, and interactive Management Information System (MIS).
- Adherence to comprehensive, up-to-date policies, procedures and structures that promote organisational excellence.
Strategic Interventions
- Continuous automation of SOPs, research, and other processes.
- Periodic review and update of systems, policies, and processes.
- Seek TI-Kenya certification.
- Avail needed institutional tools to equip staff to discharge their roles more effectively.
