Anti-Corruption Support

Direct target groups:

• PCCB management and case investigators (900)
• Citizens (in particular women and men of 15 to 35 years old) and organisations concerned with corruption (around 3 million people)

Risultati principali attesi:  

1. To increase the PCCB’s ability to gather, manage and use intelligence to inform and strengthen corruption investigations and asset recovery efforts;
2. To increase the PCCB’s operational effectiveness in relation to the conduct and management of investigations of corruption investigations with an asset recovery aspect;
3. To increase the PCCB’s ability to acquire proceeds of crime related court orders and the capacity to prosecute corruption investigations with an asset recovery aspect;
4. To improve engagement and interaction between the PCCB and other institutions in the wider anticorruption process.

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

The capacity of PCCB to investigate and prosecute complex international corrupton cases have signfifcantly improved. Some of the main achievements include:

• An exponential increase in the capacity of the PCCB’s Asset Tracing and Recovery Unit (ATRU) to investigate unexplained wealth offences, leading to the pecuniary payment of over TZS 1.6 billion (approx. CHF 700,000) to Tanzanian government and the forfeiture of a number of real estate properties.
• An average increase in knowledge of money laundering and asset recovery issues by 42% among the 116 trainees (102 PCCB, 2 DPP, 7 Tanzania Police Force, 5 Zanzibar ZAECA).
• The delivery of 5 advanced FI/AR training modules by ICAR’s training team, including 2 trainings on corruption in infrastructure projects and procurement.
• The feature film Bahasha produced by Media for Development International (MfDI) as part of the SDC funded anti-corruption mutlimedia campaign, received a positive reception from various stakeholders. It has been widely disseminated across Tanzania, including a screening at the parliament in Dodoma. It was also included in the 2019 Uhuru Torche, a festival comemorating Tanzania’s independence, where an estimated 145,126 viewers watched the movie. 

In SDC Tanzania: Good Financial Governance Project (GFG, implemented by GIZ), Social Accountability Programme (SAP), Support to the Foundation for Civil Society (FCS), Empowering Media Tanzania;

Within Swiss administration: core support to U4, ICAR, StAR; Federal Department of Justice – pending Memorandum on Mutual Legal Assistance with Tanzania.

Other donors: DFID and EU joint program on anti-corruption (BSAAT)