Independent Audits and Evaluations

In the first half of 2024, various aspects of Mwatana’s work underwent thorough and comprehensive audits and evaluations conducted by specialized and independent international auditing bodies. Mwatana’s teams across all units and departments engaged with these processes with openness, positivity, and gratitude, rooted in our firm belief in the value of independent audits and evaluations. We recognize the critical role these processes play in identifying shortcomings, addressing them, preventing their recurrence, improving the quality of our work, ensuring its sustainability, and enhancing its positive impact on victims and causes.

At Mwatana for Human Rights, we acknowledge that every human endeavor is inevitably prone to flaws and errors. We also understand that the development of our precise, robust, effective, and independent institutional work—spanning human rights, financial, and administrative domains—has been built over the years upon a series of observations, critiques, and thoughtful suggestions received by the organization. Mwatana has consistently approached these inputs with responsibility, courage, and seriousness, carefully studying, analyzing, and integrating the valuable ones into our work. This approach, combined with other key factors, has fortified the stability and resilience of our institutional efforts amid turbulent conflict, intense polarization, and carefully coordinated attempts to undermine our work and reputation through enticement and intimidation.

Given the positive outcomes of this approach as one of the optimal methods for advancing Mwatana’s institutional work in service of victims and causes, and in alignment with our participatory institutional identity, the organization has equipped its institutional framework—across structure, policies, regulations, and processes, as well as at the management and staff levels—to engage with audits, evaluations, and all forms of feedback with openness, positivity, and gratitude. Mwatana has proactively designed, built, and refined efficient and effective evaluation and audit mechanisms to receive feedback and suggestions, reinforcing the pathways for internal oversight, evaluation, learning, quality assurance, and accountability. The organization plans to expand the scope and mechanisms of both internal and external audits and evaluations, with broader participation from a wide range of stakeholders, as part of Mwatana’s vision for institutional development.

Mwatana has consistently learned that the work of public benefit organizations is not governed by personal opinions, impressions, or moods, nor by campaigns, regardless of their scale, nor by propaganda—whether white or black, for or against—but by established evaluation and audit mechanisms. These mechanisms set aside individual sentiments of satisfaction or dissatisfaction, love or hate, praise or criticism, admiration or defamation, acceptance or rejection, and adhere to the outcomes of evaluation and audit processes based on highly precise and fair methodologies. Therefore, Mwatana has focused its efforts on ensuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of its mechanisms, processes, and activities. As a result, the outcomes of our annual, periodic, routine, unexpected, and exceptional evaluations and audits have always been accurate, fair, and just, standing in stark contrast to the content of visible and hidden defamation and fabrication campaigns.

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