COMMISSION 4: Communication and awareness as a preventative measure

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COMMISSION 4 Communication and awareness as a
preventative measure

• Two presentations
• Ebenezer Cobblah Office of the Premier NW
• Advocate Sanet van Aarde
• FIU-WC

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1st presentation Approach to communication and
awareness campaign

• More externally focused
• External Stakeholders-targeting taxi drivers,
  commuters at taxi rank, hawkers and communities
  in the neighboring township and town
• Publicity-use of posters, pamphlets,
  t-shirts/caps with key messages/hotline number
  

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Communication and awareness

• Consultation process
• -politicians and other stakeholders
• -Establish task team and identify internal core
  team (champions)
• Details of plan to drive campaign-community
  outreach programme
• Plan activities for the whole province on
  anti-corruption day (9th December)
• Feedback-questionaires

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2nd presentation

• Focused more internally to Western Cape
  Provincial government
• Investigation and raising awareness
• Provincial summit-public officials in province,
  business, unions and other stakeholders
• Case studies
• Provide feedback at departmental meetings
• Road shows in rural communities

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Main lessons

• Communication, education and raising awareness
• -most effective way to prevent corruption
• -it becomes everyones responsibility
• -communities become aware that its within their
  right to expose and report corruption without
  fear, intimidation etc
• - restore confidence in government systems

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Lessons

• Feedback is important
• -provide opportunity to express personal
  experience/ views about corruption
• -serve as deterrent
• -impact develop a tool/guidelines to assess
  impact and ensure uniformity across government

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Lessons

• Share/communicate similar key messages to ensure
  consistency across government e.g. arrive alive
  campaign on national roads
• Continuous education, training of officials to
  inculcate culture intolerant to corruption
• active participation of politicians and senior
  officials (lead/live by example)
• To continue to raise awareness about security,
  e.g. passwords
• That investigators should have the necessary
  mandate to investigate and to communicate the
  mandate to the employees