A new report conducted by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has pointed to continuous incidents of gender-based corruption in Rwanda’s private sector and university.
The watchdog said in the report released Thursday that 57.20 percent of respondents had encountered gender-based corruption in private sector which accounts for the highest rate compared to higher learning institution where the rate is at 42,60%.
The rate stands at 37.20 percent in the local government, 36.10 percent in secondary education and 23.10 percent in the judiciary, according to the report.
The watchdog said in the report that the majority of respondents argued that gender-based corruption was mostly due to sexual immorality another part believed that it was due to lack of a transparency in employees promotion which exposes female employees to sexual advances.
The report said that gender-based corruption is escalated by lack of streamlined system for sending employees to working trips, lack of transparence in staff recruitment, poverty, lack of personal confidence and employees ignorance of their rights.
The strategies of fighting against gender based corruption in the work place should include the mechanisms of gender equality, a clear procedure of staff recruitment and an equitable remuneration policy of the employees within all organisations, and especially of those from the private sector, it said.
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