Kenya
Newsletter on the ICGLR Regional Initiative on Natural Resources
Download the first issue of the newsletter from the ICGLR (International Conference on the Great Lakes Region) Regional Initiative on Natural Resources.
“It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?”
Today the International Budget Partnership releases “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?”— a new documentary film on the work one of its partners, MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights), is doing to involve communities directly in monitoring the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Mombasa, Kenya. The CDF allocates approximately one million dollars annually to each member of parliament to spend on development projects in his or her constituency but provides for no meaningful independent oversight. This is the story of ordinary Kenyans stepping in to do something about it.
