In order to have a corruption free community and in deed improving access to quality healthcare services, the project intents to use its valuable resources through the concept/method of anti-corruption journalism to mobilize community members in the fighting against petty corruption in healthcare service provision. The project is supported by British Council-Global Change Maker (BC-GCM) and World Bank Institute (WBI).
The project will have three major activities each with several sub-activities. The first major activity is to train at least 20 young journalists on investigative journalism against corruption in health services delivery. Young journalists will be trained to conduct independent, non-offensive and professional investigative journalism on corruption in health sector. The basic emphasize will be put on health but not ignoring provision of social services such as education, water and electricity.
The second major activity is to establish the website to report specifically on investigative journalism against corruption in health sector. The website will be the gateway that addresses corruption in an online basis. The website will be a useful tool that provide factual situation on petty corruption in health sector for in rural and urban centers.
The third major activity is to launch the sms tool for citizen reporting on corruption issues through a website. The sms tool is based on the concept of U-report rapid sms. The tool will be used by the citizen to report on any corruption incidents as they attempt to get social services.
The results of this project are as such as increased corruption-free access to quality healthcare services as the effect of anti-corruption journalism on healthcare. The second result is increased trend of community online-reportedly issues, discussed and problem solving on petty corruption in healthcare service provision. The third result is to have increased access to information among youth, knowledge, and appropriate skills in the fight against petty corruption for improvements of healthcare services in rural and urban centers at large.
The population in urban centers such as Dar es Salaam and Coast Region is made up of more than 50 per cent of youth whose age category varies from 18-35 years. Thus youth makes a composition of large percentage of beneficiaries of healthcare services. The trend of petty corruption in accessing healthcare services makes youth vulnerable. To do away from this risk the project intents to reach directly more than 200 youth and 1000 Health services clients while reaching more than 1.5 million people through the use of internet
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