Source: Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET)
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET)’s Socio-Economic Champions (SOCHAMPs) and Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z)’s Accountability Monitoring Committees (AMCs) converged yesterday in Harare at Bananai Gardens in a bid to synergize their efforts at fighting corruption in the informal sector. It emerged that the SOCHAMPs and the AMCs have been seized with anti-corruption activities targeted at the informal sector in their respective constituencies but these efforts had not been in sync.
It was therefore agreed that the SOCHAMPs and the AMCs be blended into Corruption Resistance Teams (CRTs). CRTs in locations such as Hopley, Chitungwiza and Epworth were formed and they will be capacitated through training to detect, document, report and resist corruption in their respective constituencies. They are also anticipated to cascade this training down to their fellow community members. The convergence is one of the many programmatic areas in which VISET and TIZ will collaborate.
Source: Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET)