Key Challenges in the Region #IDUAI
Key Strenghts in the Region #IDUAI
OSISA’s investments into promoting Access to Information across southern Africa. #IDUAI
The struggle for the right to access to information in the region has been long and tedious. This, despite the fact that regional and international instruments, including Goal 16.10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to which many countries are state party, recognise the centrality of this right as a catalyst for human development.
The Carter Centre aptly sums up why the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has, since 2016, set aside September 28 as a universal day to annually commemorate the right to information. The Carter Centre contends: “Allowing people to seek and receive public documents serves as a critical tool for fighting corruption, enabling citizens to fully participate in public life, making governments more efficient, encouraging investment, and helping persons