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Coalition on Accountable Political Financing

CAPF is an alliance of governance focused civil society organizations in Kenya that bring together their expertise, experiences and programmatic resources towards the improvement of practice and culture of political party financing in the country.

Hence, CAPF members will be monitoring the elections as part of the Coalition’s mission to scrutinize the link between campaign funds and politics, thereby, reducing corruption and institutionalizing multi-party democracy in Kenya.

Although the Coalition will limit its monitoring exercise to Nairobi province, it will collaborate with other organizations currently working in other parts of the country to monitor nationally, the financing of aspirants - both parliamentary and civic level.

The scope of monitoring will be limited to the income and expenditures of the aforementioned candidates and parties. The breakdown of which is outlined below:

A summary of the party’s financial income statement indicating the various sources.
And their proposed budget for the 2007 elections.

Gallery

Pictures from the Public Forum on Accountability and Transparency in the Conduct of the Elections, held on 2nd April 2008

Public Debate on Accountability and Transparency

1ST APRIL 2008

WHAT: A PUBLIC DEBATE ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE CONDUCT OF THE 2007 ELECTIONS

WHO: DR CHARLES OTIENO : EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,

POLITY AND POLICY

DATE: WEDNESDAY 2ND APRIL 2008

TIME: 8.30 AM - 12.OO NOON

WHERE: SAROVA STANLEY , NAIROBI, KENYA

Print Media Monitoring Reports

Print Media Monitoring Report of the 2007 General Elections in Kenya - Campaign Coverage by African Woman and Child and the Coalition on Accountable Political Financing.

Documentation

Find a selection of documents to give you more information from the CAPF Election Monitoring Initiative:

Coalition for Accountable Political Financing (CAPF)

November 12th 2007

The Coalition for Accountable Political Financing (CAPF) yesterday wrote a letter to the ECK chairman Samuel Kivuitu of their intention to monitor party financing around the General Elections.

The Political parties and individual politicians are currently pouring a lot of money to sway their supporters to vote in their favor during party nominations and on the Election Day- 27^th December, 2007.

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Coalition For Accountable Political Financing (CAPF) welcomes passing of the Political Parties Bill

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Call for Papers for the Media & Diversity Journal

The Media and Diversity Journal is a research-based and peer-reviewed quasi-academic journal published three times a year in the months of April, August and December. It is published by the University of Nairobi’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the African Woman and Child Feature Service.

The Media and Diversity Journal (MDJ) is inviting submissions for its special issue on Identity and Conflict planned for December 2010.

Find out more on the MDJ and the Call for Papers