Sudan Transparency Initiative (STI)

What is STI

Sudan Democracy First Group (SDFG) launched the Sudan Transparency Initiative (STI) Project in March 2015 to document, investigate, analyze, and disseminate credible and reliable information about the scope and magnitude of corruption in Sudan.

SDFG is a Sudanese think-tank and civil society organization built on a coalition of democrats, activists, trade unionists, and academics representing different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Its main agenda is to be a voice for the voiceless victims in Sudan, focusing on democratization and its intersection with peace, justice, and development.

Objectives

• Raise Awareness: Inform Sudanese and non-Sudanese about the scale and scope of grand and petty corruption.
• Movement Building: Build anti-corruption movements at local and national levels to demand accountability, transparency, assets recovery, and justice.
• Youth Capacity Building: Mobilize and train youth to skillfully document, analyze, and subvert corruption practices in their local settings.
• Information Accessibility: Make credible information about corruption and lack of transparency available online for students, researchers, and activists.
• Support for Change: Provide reliable information and studies to democratic forces of change in Sudan to help establish credible anti-corruption instruments and assets recovery mechanisms.

STI works toward these objectives by researching, documenting, and disseminating short stories and detailed reports about instances of corruption, and maintaining an online database accessible to researchers, students, activists, and politicians.