Accountability in MENA
Holding institutions and public officials answerable for their actions.
Organizations
A Tunisian civil society organization monitoring parliament, municipalities and public budgets to strengthen transparency.
A Jordanian NGO promoting accountability, governance and participation, best known for its RASED election-monitoring programme.
A Lebanese organization advancing the right to access information, filing information requests and publishing public budgets in accessible formats.
A Tunisian anti-corruption watchdog founded after the 2011 revolution, monitoring public spending, elections and integrity.
The leading network supporting investigative and accountability journalism across the Arab world, training reporters and fact-checkers.
Projects
A parliamentary monitoring project tracking legislators' attendance, votes and activity to strengthen accountability.
An online platform where Moroccan citizens post questions and proposals directly to members of parliament for public reply.
Al-Hayat Center's long-running programme monitoring Jordanian elections and parliamentary performance to advance electoral reform.
A transparency effort filing access-to-information requests and publishing Lebanese public-administration budgets in user-friendly formats.
Tools
An open-source tool by OCCRP for searching and cross-referencing large document and data sets in investigations.
Resources
An Al Bawsala platform visualizing Tunisia's public budget to make government spending understandable to citizens.
An Innovation for Change MENA dashboard helping civil society use open data to track and evaluate public policies.
A global multi-stakeholder initiative where governments and civil society co-create open-government reforms, with members in MENA.