Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) is a pan-African membership civil society organization and resource centre promoting the right to information in Africa. It has a total of 56 members in 29 African countries, the centre is the largest and leading organization promoting the right to information and open contracting in Africa.
AFIC’s current strategic plan focuses on four core pillars including right to information, transparency and accountability, institutional development and membership development.
Under its transparency and accountability pillar, AFIC focuses on promoting value for money in the delivery of public contracts and services with a major emphasis on the use of public information to foster transparency and accountability. Our initiatives include promoting disclosure by public institutions/entities, businesses, building capacity of data users, monitoring of public contracts and services, enhance whistle-blower protection and promotion of fair business practices.
AFIC is home to various initiatives and platforms aimed at promoting specific sector agendas. CoST Uganda is a multi-stakeholder working initiative promoting transparency, accountability and participation in the public infrastructure sector.
AFIC is recruiting a Project Assistant who is self-motivated, and self-driven to support the implementation of transparency and accountability interventions, strengthen existing partnerships, support advocacy to facilitate knowledge generation, influence reforms and document change at the local and national levels and support administrative processes in the delivery of his/her tasks under the CoST Uganda Programme.
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