A colleague approached a number of counties requesting procurement data and tenders. He was able to get details of tenders just becuase they are advertised publicly. However getting county-level data e.g. who applied, what criteria was used to award these tenders etc. hapo aliona moshi hadi he gave up. Mara that data is private, ooh governor permission etc.
Using World Bank data, quantitative researchers and mathematicians have been able to spot corruption trends and can pretty much tell when, where and how corruption happens using evidence. Here is a link of what I am talking about: https://www.britac.ac.uk/project-blog-curbing-corruption-development-aid-funded-procurement Essentially if the govt wanted to fight corruption properly waache public declarations and use data. Ubaya hao governors are the biggest beneficiaries of corruption so things might not change anytime soon.
I was once part of a group that carried out similar research and luckily we were armed with a very intimidating document which opened county doors for us
Pia mimi nashangaa. Auditor General has complained enough times about this, data he needs for his job is just not available, watu wanaficha. County employees refuse to answer questionnaires or participate in focus groups. And those who agree you can almost tell that data was falsified or contradictory.
@mikel please let me know which docs so that I pass the info to my colleague.
Hehe @nimechoka I cnt give more than that without exposing whatever little anonymity that i still enjoy here…but the data we collected from all 47 counties is safely with auditor general and another organisation. The only county where it was a bit slippery ni machakos…wengine wote walitii…kwanza it was very easy to constitute focus group discussions.