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Corruption & Access to Information in Africa

Five years ago, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information, following a UNESCO resolution from 2015. This year, in conjunction with UNESCO, the Government of Ghana is hosting in Accra (1-2nd October) the 2024 Global Conference on Universal Access to Information. The main idea is to provide space to assess progress in promoting access to information globally. It is remarkable that this year’s Global Conference is held in Africa. While progress on universal access to information re...

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ANCE: For the creation of a national financial prosecutor's office in Togo

All international, regional and EU anti-corruption instruments, such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, the ECOWAS Protocol on Combating Corruption and many other international standards, require States Parties to take measures to strengthen the integrity of the judicial sector in order to prevent opportunities for corruption, including prosecution services. In the same vein, Article 36 of UNCAC requires States Parties to establish and operationalise...

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ANCE-TOGO is providing civil society organisations tools about best practices in the fight against green corruption

Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l'Environnement (ANCE-TOGO), Transparency International's representative in Togo, has been gathering fifteen representatives of civil society organisations at its headquarters in Lomé since Thursday for a two (2) day training workshop on mitigating climate change by fighting corruption in the wildlife sector. The importance of this theme stems from the observation that efforts to protect our environment are being increasingly undermined by the spectacular growth of environmental crime and, in particula...

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ANCE-TOGO is building the capacity of journalists to contribute to the fight against green corruption

The Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l'Environnement (ANCE-TOGO) brought together journalists from Togo's private media for a capacity-building session on green corruption at the Hôtel La Concorde in Lomé on May 30 and 31, 2024. ANCE-TOGO, which coordinates Transparency International's West Africa Hub, provided the fifteen of participants with the opportunity to learn about green corruption and the international, regional and national legal instruments used to combat climate change and illegal wildlife trade. This activity, which is p...

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Legislative and regional elections: ANCE-Togo calls for respect of electoral integrity

In this sensitive period when electoral campaigns are taking place on the national territory in view of the legislative and regional elections of April 29, 2024, ANCE-Togo urges the entire political community to respect electoral integrity. Nothing arouses energies, concerns, hopes and frustrations relating to democracy as much as an election. The quality of an election can make all the difference between a cooking fire and an explosion. A successful election can pacify and unify a nation (Namibia 2015), an election with disputed results can di...

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ANCE-TOGO: Parliamentary Republic can strengthen governance, transparency and the fight against corruption

On Friday, April 19, 2024, Togo's National Assembly adopted the proposed constitutional amendment to change the country's system of government from a semi-presidential regime to a Parliamentary Republic. Under the terms of the new Constitution, the national executive will henceforth be embodied by a President of the Council of Ministers, head of government appointed by Parliament and accountable to it. The executive will be shared with a President of the Republic, chosen by the legitimate representatives of the people, the deputies and senators...

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Press release

Widespread wildlife trafficking in West Africa undermines efforts to combat climate change and increases organized crime, money laundering and terrorism. For more information, download the press release HERE Thanks...

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Biography of the President

Dr Fabrice Kodjo Ebeh is an international anti-corruption expert. He is specialized in international and regional anti-corruption legal instruments, the fight against money laundering and illicit financial flows. With over twenty (20) years' experience, Dr Fabrice has carried out several international technical assistance missions for intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, countries and foundations. In particular, he has successfully carried out several public finance evaluation missions and supported public reforms linked to...

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ANCE takes part in the Second Structured Dialogue between Team Europe and CSOs

Our President, Dr Fabrice Ebeh, took part today to the 2nd structured dialogue between Team Europe and Togo's civil society. The meeting took place at the Hôtel Onomo in Lomé and brought together about forty CSOs. It was co-chaired by the Heads of the Cooperation Sections of the EU Delegation, the German Embassy and the French Embassy. Among others, the meeting provided an opportunity for a participatory review of the activities of the EU and its member states' CSO Roadmap, and to hear the testimonies of some of the beneficiaries of these activ...

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Launch of CPI 2023: ANCE calls on government to strengthen anti-corruption efforts

This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows mixed results in Africa, with significant improvements in a few countries. However, most African countries experienced stagnation, maintaining the region’s consistently poor performance, with an unaltered regional average score of 33 out of 100. Ninety per cent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa scored under 50. Despite a regional survey ranking corruption as one of the most important issues African populations want their governments to address, the CPI 2023 shows that sub-Saharan African cou...

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ANCE-Togo facilitated the establishment of the Network of Women's Organisations against Corruption (ROFECC) in Togo

On Friday 21st October, 2022, ANCE-TOGO facilitated the adoption of the action plan of the Network of Women's Organisations against Corruption (ROFECC) in Togo that we set up the day before. This activity was carried out within the framework of the Public Governance Strengthening Project (PRGP) financed by UNDP and implemented by the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Dialogue of Togo. Big thanks to our President, Fabrice Kodjo EBEH, PhD for his strategic leadership and facilitation of both the training, the setting up of this networ...

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The Government of Togo adopted the National Strategy for the Fight against Corruption (2022-2026)

Our President and Founder, Fabrice Kodjo EBEH, PhD, participated yesterday, October 13, 2022, as part of the consultants team who facilitated the process of the development of the National Strategy for the Prevention of and Fight against Corruption in Togo (2022-2026), to the national workshop that led to the validation of this document at the Hotel 2 Février in Lomé. The workshop was chaired by Dr. Christian Trimua, Minister of Human Rights, Citizenship Empowerment, Relations with the Institutions of the Republic and government Spokesperson, r...

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Fabrice Kodjo EBEH, PhD joined the International Transparency Working Group OF GIFT

We are very glad that our Founding President, Fabrice Kodjo EBEH, PhD, has been appointed as a member of the prestigious International Transparency Working Group (TWG) of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). This wider piece of multi-stakeholder work aims to establish a framework for transparency reporting. This includes a mapping of what meaningful transparency means to different key stakeholders on the topic of terrorism and violent extremism and what third party oversight models look like.

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ANCE takes part in structured EU-CSO dialogue

In Togo, exchanges between European cooperation and civil society organisations (CSOs) will henceforth take place within a much more organised framework. Long called for by CSOs, the first session of structured dialogue between the European Union (EU) and its Member States with civil society organisations was held on Wednesday 14 June in Lomé. Through this structured dialogue, the European institution now intends to engage with Togolese CSOs in exchanges that are planned, regular, timely, predictable and transparent, unlike the ad hoc consultat...

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Dr. Kodjo Fabrice Ebeh awarded Gender & Development Ambassador 2022

Dr. Kodjo Fabrice Ebeh, has been awarded Gender & Development Ambassador 2022 for his outstanding commitment to gender & corruption issues in Togo during the year 2022. This award as well as a certificate were given to him on 28 January 2023 at the Hotel 2 Février in Lomé during the 8th National Women's Leadership Summit (SNLF).

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