IGI is involved in a series of activities based on its Objects and functions with the sole purpose of improving governance in public administration. The Programs are formulated and implemented by the Focal Integrity Teams (FITs) in various countries and are closely monitored and assisted by the Technical Management Unit (TMU) of the organization.

FITs comprise of country members while the TMU is a team of program advisors appointed by the Board. Each program advisor provides technical counsel in a specific thematic area in which IGI operates and liaises with and advises country members on the realization of the goals in the specific field.

Program Advisors are responsible to the Director or in his absence to the Assistant Director of Programs and Head of Research and Policy of the IGI .

Mr Fortune Huruva Director

In the July 1999 article in the Foreign Affairs journal, Professor Joseph Nye, Head of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard, made an important distinction between what he referred to as ‘hard power’ and ‘soft power’. Hard power refers to the use of military might or economic muscle to influence others by coercion while soft power refers to the ability to attract and influence through the flow of information, and the appeal of social, cultural and moral values. Hard power gets others to do what we want. Soft power gets others to want what we do. IGI treads on the path of attraction; the path of soft power.

The power of getting to tell your story of how you are governed, the power of getting to know what others think about your government and the power of your government engaging you in regular mutual talks is what energizes the IGI programs. It is about talking to one another, passing on our messages, engaging our minds, ventilating our frustrations and thinking together.

IGI believes that the problems bedeviling the human society are all manifestations of the dangerous state of the human heart. In the absence of the rot in the heart of man, it would be an obnoxious expenditure to have the police, the perimeter walls, the army or prisons all around us. What comes from the heart: anger, lust, greed, hatred, self, impatience is that which breeds human rights abuses, robbery, corrupt practices, violent conflicts, tyranny and subversion of justice.
The tongue speaks vile that it has not manufactured, the hand commits crimes it has not initiated, the foot tramples on vulnerable people it does not loath. Yet the chamber that springs all these atrocities is the heart and the mind.

In what we call, ‘The Right to Tell….and the Right to Know’, IGI is engaged in addressing, not the fingers that steal but the mind and the heart that propel the finger to theft. IGI is an interactive forum where people exchange ideas, Christian values, social skills and traditions with the aim of attaining desirable attitudinal and behavioral change: key ingredients of the heart and the mind.

Knowing our shortcomings is inherently humbling. Our world desperately needs leaders who are honestly open to the possibility of error in their actions and utterances. IGI programs point out areas of weaknesses in our daily interactions with government, lauds areas of strengths and proposes areas of improvement.
IGI does research and analysis and disseminates information to various stakeholders and the public. It builds and promotes peace in conflict situations, fights misconduct and indiscipline in public service, advocates for open democratic elections and upholding of human rights standards. 

Public Ethics Program 
Mr. Lawrence Muiruri

He is a state attorney with the Attorney General’s department in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Bachelors degree with a major in Economics from the University of Panjab and a graduate degree in law from the University of Mysore, India. He practices in civil and commercial law, arbitration, alternative disputes resolution, child protection, rights advocacy and good governance. He is married to Karen; they are Christians and members of the Trinity Baptist Church in Nairobi. Muiruri advises on anti-corruption laws, value systems and related investigations.



Electoral systems Program
Mr Samuel Fungwa

He was born in Bafut Mezam, in the North West province of Cameroon. He obtained a CAPIEMP in general education at ENIEG Bamenda before being recruited to teach by the Menoua Divisional Delegation of Education under the Ministry of National Education.

Fungwa holds a B.A (Hons) in Education from the American University in Cyprus, GAU and an M.A. in Communication and Media from the Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus. He was given an award of Excellency by the North Cyprus President called, “Future Leaders President’s Award”. He is a research fellow at the Eastern Mediterranean University.

Fungwa advises on Electoral Systems and reforms, democratic issues and transitions, national elections and electioneering systems



Public Service Program

 Luke Ansobi Loneli

Advises on civil service reforms, institutional review performance standards and efficiency monitoring.

He was born in Bagata in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He holds a B.A( Licentia) in Law from Kinshasa University.

He has previously worked as a justice auxiliary at Court in Kinshasa and is now attached to the Network (PTN) in Nairobi. Ansobi has extensive knowlegde of the Great Lakes region, the civil strife and the myriad of conflicts that characterise the region
 

Principal Adminstrative Secretary

Mrs. Irene Chepng’eno

Irene is a mother of three, born and raised in the expansive Rift Valley of Kenya. She holds a B.A (Hons) in Economics and Sociology from the University of Nairobi and a Higher National Diploma in Human Resource Management from the Institute of Personnel Management, Nairobi, Kenya. She previously worked for Chevron Oil Kenya Ltd. Irene is a committed Christian and a member of a reformed church in Nairobi.

Financial Adminstrator

Ochieng Owino

Born in Alego Usonga in the Nyanza province of Kenya, Ochieng went to Barding Secondary School before joining the University of Nairobi for a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree in Business Studies and Economics. He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and he is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya. He has attended a CDM course, a mechanism provided by the Kyoto Protocol under UNFCC and conducted by SRA of India and Pembina Institute of Canada. He has also been trained by the Environment Cost Management (ECM) Centre for the Kenya Revenue Authority. Ochieng has held appointments as a consultant and accountant at various corporate agencies around the country, lecturing at Braeburn College, and sitting on the Board of the Centre for Conflict Sensitive Development. He deals with the management of internal accounting systems at the IGI.