SWAZILAND

SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS
Category 1: Website Analysis
s !LL EIGHT INSTITUTIONS HAD SOME INTERNET ACCESSIBILITY
especially the government parastatals. However, government
ministries do not have independent websites but are part of
the national government website.
s 4HE WEBSITE OF THE %LECTIONS AND "OUNDARIES #OMMISSION
contained the least practical information.
s 4HE WEBSITES OF FOUR INSTITUTIONS WERE NOT UPDATED -INISTRY
of Education, Elections and Boundaries Commission, Human
Rights Commission and Ministry of Education); two were
partially updated (Smart Partnership Secretariat and Ministry
of Public Works and Transport); and only two were updated
on a regular basis (Swaziland Competition Commission and
NERCHA).
s 4HE WEBSITE OF .%2#(! RANKED BEST OF ALL THE EVALUATED
institutions as it contained the most recent information and
is updated weekly. Also, this website is linked to social media
platforms which are constantly updated.

Category 2: Request for Written and Oral
Information
s !LL MINISTRIES AND DEPARTMENTS SELECTED BY -)3! 3WAZILAND
for the study were given questionnaires.
s /F THE EIGHT INSTITUTIONS REQUESTED TO RETURN WRITTEN RESPONSES
only five – NERCHA, Swaziland Competition Commission,
Smart Partnership Secretariat, the Human Rights Commission
and EBC – provided responses.
s 4HREE INSTITUTIONS THE -INISTRY OF 4INKHUNDLA -INISTRY OF
Education and Ministry of Public Works and Transport)
requested to be given another set of questions as they had
misplaced the initial questionnaires. A questionnaire was
sent via email to the Ministry of Tinkhundla and the others
were hand-delivered to the institutions. Of note is that in six
of the participating institutions, all questions were referred
to the most senior officers, totally disregarding the role of
information officers
s 4HE -INISTRY OF 4INKHUNDLA AND THE -INISTRY OF %DUCATION
ranked the worst, as they did not respond to the requests, due
to their highly bureaucratic environment. These institutions
required that the most senior officer deal with the requests,
and such officers were usually tied up in meetings, hence they
could not provide the information requested.

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