Tunisia –   I Watch Organization Concludes a Project to Support Accountability and Transparency

Location: Tunis – Tunisia

Language: Arabic

Voice: Natural

Duration: 00:03:42

Source: A24

Restriction: A24 Clients

Dateline: 30-04-2022

Storyline:

The Tunisian   I Watch Organizationconcluded the project entitled “Supporting Accountability, Transparency, and Right to Information for Local Authorities”, which began in October 2019.

The closing ceremony was attended by a representative of the US Embassy, as the project is funded by the US government through the Middle East Partnership Initiative, in addition to a representative of the executive office of the organization.

This project aims to support accountability and access to information on the local side by building partnerships with municipalities and supporting them technically and legally.

Shotlist

• Soundbite (Khawla Al-Maqrani – Project Coordinator at I Watch):

“Today was the closing ceremony of our project. This project started in October 2019. It aims to support municipalities and civil society. We supported 216 municipalities in training on the Access to Information Law 2016. As we know, the municipalities and administrations are not cooperating with the citizens when they request information, and this is a universal right, so we tried to implement the right of access to information with what we can provide as an I-Watch organization.”

• Soundbite (Taher Ferchishi – Member of   I Watch ): 

“Evaluating the application of access to information cannot be in a blind way because we have municipalities that are still learning, so we cannot deal with mayors who have 3 years of experience, just as we deal with a management that has a ten-year experience. So, in my opinion, access to information must be taught to the administration and the citizens, and then we get to the evaluation. My evaluation will not be objective with the municipalities, and they are in a learning stage more than an evaluation stage.”