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Budget Transparency: More Efforts Needed in Togo

The Open Budget Survey (OBS), 2025 edition, published by the International Budget Partnership (IBP), which covers 33 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, reveals that, despite budgetary and governance challenges, the African region has made modest progress in terms of accountability—progress that can be strengthened to bolster public trust. Across sub-Saharan Africa, rising debt and fiscal pressures are reshaping budget priorities. Only slightly more than one-third of countries provide all key figures on net new borrowing, total outstanding debt, a...

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Launch of the West Africa Right to Information Report and Policy Brief: An Evening Dialogue on Strengthening the Right to Information and Accountability Efforts

Last night, following the conclusion of the Transparency International (TI) 2026 Africa Regional Meeting (ARM) stakeholders from across West Africa and beyond convened at the Accra City Hotel, Ghana, for the official launch of the West Africa Right to Information (RTI) Report and Policy Brief. The event, co-organised by Transparency International Ghana (TI-Ghana), Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l’Environnement (ANCE-Togo), and the Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S), brought together civil society actors, government repres...

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Launch of an Anti-Illicit Financial Flows Platform in Togo

Available data shows that Africa’s losses due to illicit financial flows have nearly doubled, rising from $50 billion per year in 2015 to $90 billion in 2020. This represents 3.7% of the continent’s total economic output and is nearly equivalent to the total amount of foreign investment and aid that Africa receives each year (ECA, 2020). Corruption causes Africa an estimated annual loss of $148 billion, or 25% of Africa’s GDP (AfDB, 2015). The rate of illicit financial flows (IFFs) is particularly high in West Africa at 38%, compared to 28% in...

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ANCE Trains CSOs on Illicit Financial Flows

From May 8 to 15, 2025, ANCE organized two training workshops for civil society organizations (CSOs) and investigative journalists on illicit financial flows and sustainable development in Togo. These capacity-building workshops for CSOs were organized as part of the implementation of the ACTION+ Asset Recovery Project, funded by the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA). This event takes place against a backdrop where Africa loses nearly $100 billion annually due to illicit financial flows (IFFs). Acco...

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CPI 2025, ANCE calls on government to strengthen anti-corruption efforts

Corruption remains a serious problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released today 10 February 2026 by Transparency International. With an average score of 32 out of 100 and only four out of the 49 countries scoring above 50, Sub Saharan Africa is the lowest performing region on the global index of 182 countries. Ten of the 49 countries in the region have significantly worsened since 2012 and only seven have improved in the same period, highlighting that current anti-corruption efforts are not y...

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Dr. Fabrice Kodjo Ebeh, PhD, appointed member of the International Council of GIACC

ANCE is very delighted to inform you that our President, Dr Fabrice Kodjo Ebeh, PhD, has been appointed as a Member of the International Council of the Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC), in the UK and is set to take office in July 2025. The Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC) is an international network of independent, not-for-profit organisations which develops and promotes anti-corruption measures for the infrastructure sector. GIACC is governed by an International Council comprising 22 members from 17 coun...

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Dr. Fabrice Ebeh appointed to the Interim Executive Council of the AU NSA Forum

Fabrice Kodjo Ebeh, PhD, President of ANCE-TOGO, is deeply honoured and grateful to have been appointed by the African Union Advisory Board against Corruption as a member of the Interim Executive Council of the Non-State Actors (NSA) Forum of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AU-CPC) for a twelve (12) month term. Through this appointment, he hopes to contribute to strengthening the participation of civil society organizations and business sector in the fight against corruption in Africa. The Interim Executive...

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Fabrice Kodjo Ebeh, PhD, distinguished Doctor Honoris Causa

Our President, Fabrice Kodjo Ebeh, PhD, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa for Anti-Corruption Excellence in Africa during the 2nd edition of the awards ceremony hosted by the African Institute for Applied Multidisciplinary Research (IARPA), Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and the Center for Professional Development (CVPT), Tunis, Tunisia. This distinction, awarded on November 19, 2025, in Dakar (Senegal), honors the exceptional contributions of African and international leaders in fields as diverse as science, culture, politics, innovation, s...

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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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