An innovative partnership between PTF and OAFRESS (Organisation de l’Afrique Francophone pour le Renforcement des Systemes de Sante et de Vaccination – the Francophone African Organization Supporting Healthcare and Vaccination Systems) operating across 18 French-speaking African countries.

What do we do?

PTF supports innovative civil society organization-led and related approaches to reduce corruption, increase transparency, strengthen governance, and enhance accountability in low- and middle-income economies and widely shares knowledge gleaned through its work.

Who we are

PTF is a 501(c)(3) Washington, DC-based non-governmental organization founded in 1998. Since it started operations in 2000, PTF has supported more than 200 projects in over 50 countries, published reports and extensive articles on the lessons learned from its projects, and provided advice to multilateral institutions.

PTF’s Board of Directors, Management Team, and Advisors represent many nationalities and have a common passion for supporting CSOs in their work to secure transparency, accountability, and integrity in the public sector.

How do we do it?

Governance and accountability will only improve if citizens organize themselves to demand reform. Governments respond to internal, not external, pressure. We help local civil society organizations (CSOs) acquire the knowledge, skills, abilities, and tools to campaign effectively for reform, monitor and improve delivery of services, and encourage government agencies to respond constructively to the concerns and demands of citizens.

Theory of Change

Our Strategy

Our strategy defines PTF’s mission to support innovative civil society organization-led and related approaches to reduce corruption, increase transparency, strengthen governance, and enhance accountability in low- and middle-income economies and widely share knowledge gleaned through its work.

Our Approaches

PTF achieves its mission by supporting local civil society organizations (CSOs) through mobilizing and granting funds, providing technical advice, and disseminating knowledge, as well as advocating for civil society engagement and demanding integrity in the public and private sectors. Specifically, PTF:

  • Mobilizes money from official and private donors to provide sub-grants to local CSOs, in addition to helping them access donor funds directly;
  • Provides technical advice through expert advisers who have decades of experience in international development;
  • Distills knowledge from projects and CSOs it supports, as well as from global experience, and disseminates information widely;
  • Advocates for civil society engagement to reduce corruption, enhance integrity and accountability, and increase effectiveness of public programs and projects and calls on donors to support CSOs in doing this work with capacity building and funds; and
  • Promotes collaboration and mutual support among its network of CSO partners.

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Learn more about the tools and approaches we use here.

Read our Annual Reports and Financial Statements here.

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After accumulating decades of experience and expertise, what is the next step for those who still want to contribute? Seeking an answer to this question is what brings many retirees to join the Partnership for Transparency (PTF).

“What’s Next for the Anti-Corruption Agenda?”: Celebrating PTF’s First 15 Years

Speakers included Nancy Birdsall, founding President of the Center for Global Development, Robert S. Mueller, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who served two terms as the Minister of Finance in Nigeria.