SWAZILAND

8. Commission for Human Rights and Public Administration
Integrity
CATEGORY 1: WEBSITE
http://www.gov.sz/index.php?option=com_content&id=368&Itemid=353
The Commission’s website has relevant and contained descriptive information about the Commission. However, the information presented
was very superficial, and there were no updated reports.
n = 20

Yes

No

Partial

Additional Information

s

1. Does this website contain up to date information?
2. Does the website contain the following:

s

a) A description of its powers, as well as data on the organisational structure, the
functions, and the responsibilities of the administration?
b) A list of laws, Acts etc. issued within the scope of its powers?

s

c) Reports, policies, programs?

s

d) Budget and expenditure?

s

e) Information about procurement procedures, signed contracts?

s

f) Vacancy and employment procedures?

s

g) The name and address, telephone number, and the working hours of the
respective institution?

A brief description of the
institution

No working hours
mentioned

s
s

h) The contact details of public officials?
i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic messages and
requests for information?

Telephone and fax
numbers

s

Total Score: 6/20
CATEGORY 2: REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
Part 1: Request for written information
The following questions were sent to the Commission for Human Rights and Public Administration Integrity:
1. Does your office have an information desk?
2. Does your office have a website?
3. If so, how often is your website updated? And who is in charge of your website?
4. How many cases has the Commission dealt with since its inception? How often does the Commission publish its reports? Are these
made available to the public?
5. How do you promote access to information, so that citizens can be informed?
n = 20

Yes

No

s

1. Is there an official designated to take and respond to information requests?
(Please state title of officials in ‘Additional Information’)
2. Did the institution reply within 21 days? (If less than 7 please state in ‘Additional
Information’)

s

3. Did the Institution respond to a request for information?

s
s

4. Does the authority publish their procedures for dealing with information
requests?
5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? (If partially please
mark ‘No’, indicate in ‘Additional Information’ how much of the information
requested was supplied)

86

Additional Information

s

All information requests are handled
by the chairperson since the
institution has limited staff

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