Intern: Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability at GIZ South Africa, Lesotho & eSwatini

BACKGROUND

The Transparency, Integrity and Accountability Programme (TIP) in South Africa, which works with the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), is a new project, which builds on the experience of the GIZ Governance Support Programmes (GSP) of the last 10 years. It supports state and non-state actors to contribute towards the implementation of the National Anti-corruption Strategy (NACS) in a whole-of-government and societal manner. The TIP provides capacity development for anti-corruption actors in the state, civil society and the business sector.

The project supports:

• Active citizenry where citizens can contribute actively to activities and initiatives in favour transparency, integrity and accountability (Output 1);
• The strengthening of institutional capacity of collaborative mechanisms, particularly the National Anti-corruption Advisory Council to coordinate the implementation of the NACS (Output 2); and
• Multi-stakeholder partnerships to improve transparency, integrity and accountability (Output 3).

In addition to the whole-of-government and societal approach of the TIP, the programme actively pursues a human rights-based orientation including gender equality. The strategic reference points for the TIP are the NACS, the National Development Plan and the Medium-term Strategic Framework 2019-2024, Germany’s approaches to governance, democracy and anti-corruption as well as Agenda 2063 (African Union) and Sustainable Development Goals 16.5 and 16.6.

The TIP is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The programme is part of the newly established Peaceful and Inclusive Societies core cooperation topic of BMZ and the action field Good Governance. The TIP is co-financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

The Intern will work closely with all three Outputs of the Programme and contribute towards the overall objective and indicators of the Programme. The Intern will gain a general overview of the Programme and gain hands-on experience while you develop your skills towards the promotion of anti-corruption activities in the civil society, state and private sectors.

RESPONSIBILITIES - see full job description download below

The Intern is responsible for the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Support and collaborate with team members in the coordination and implementation of activities of the Programme;
• Support stakeholder coordination and engagement of the three Outputs;
• Support the implementation of communication and knowledge management activities,
• including the organisation of meetings, workshops, learning journeys and other means
• of retaining and sharing knowledge;
• Support general coordination and project management including operational planning
• and reporting; and
• Exercising all responsibilities according to GIZ’s corporate principles.