Yemen Accountability Enhancement Project

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The development objective of the Accountability Enhancement Project for Yemen is to enhance the capacity of targeted accountability institutions to provide access to information and to improve enforcement of the anti-corruption law. The project comprises of four components. The first component, supporting the implementation of the national anticorruption strategy and transparency and anti-corruption action plan will contribute to improved enforcement of the anticorruption law by establishing core systems and enhancing the institutional capacity of supreme national authority for combating corruption (SNACC) by establishing a decision support system (DSS) for the assets declarations sector; establishing a management information system (MIS) for the investigation sector; developing an interactive website of SNACC; establishing a hotline to enable citizens to make complaints; establishing a legal cell (LC) to draft necessary legislative amendments as per recommendations of the national dialogue conference (NDC); and establishing a research and analysis cell for conducting diagnostic studies into causes and forms of corruption in pilot sectors. The second component, supporting the implementation of the right to access to information (RAI) law will support the implementation of the law by enhancing the institutional capacity of information commissioner’s office (ICO) by providing support in finalizing by-laws, preparing roadmap for the implementation of RAI, preparing ICO’s four year strategic plan, organizational structure, operation manual, and key performance indicators (KPIs). The third component, supporting the Yemen anti-corruption coalition (YACC) in raising demand for good governance in 7 pilot sectors will support the YACC in the documentation, dissemination, and mediation in identified cases of corruption and poor service delivery. The fourth component, project management will provide for project management unit (PMU) staff salary, goods and equipment, training, consultant’s services, eligible expenses related to meetings, and incremental operating costs of the PMU to support project coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and management.