The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) held a forum titled, ‘Behind the Headlines: Understanding and Supporting Jamaica’s State Accountability Institutions’. Present at the event was the alphabet soup of Jamaica’s national accountability architecture: IC. MOCA. RPD. FID. AGD.

To the average Jamaican, these acronyms sound more like somebody fell asleep with their finger on the keyboard, rather than the sum total of Jamaica’s guardianship of the public purse and the public trust.

The event was designed to put Jamaica’s key anti-corruption and accountability bodies in the same room, in front of the same audience, talking not just about what they do, but how they can better understand, support and complement each other.