OUR PROFILE

EthicEA at a glance

Our Vision

EthicEA’s vision is to become the leading ethics & integrity reference organization in the East African region. Its certificate and logo to be the mark and brand of ethics & integrity for business; a sign of trust and confidence.

Our Mission

The mission of EthicEA is to promote and advance ethics & integrity practices in business and the general socio-economic and political development in the African continent.   We strive to;

a)   Build an ethical society beyond Africa.

b) Develop good ethical and integrity skills for the workplace and business through integrity and awareness training as a requirement for good responsible, accountable and transparent behaviour in the conduct of business.

c) Instill value based organizational culture in public and private business dealings that understand and address ethical misconduct, such as theft, fraud, corruption and general mismanagement of resources.

d) Instill ethics and integrity by organizing and facilitating training of trainers’ courses and conducting industry and organizational research in both public and private sector organizations.

Our Core Functions
Ethics & Integrity Research
We actively engage in ETHICS & Integrity RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES for organizations and interested parties to assess the risks and opportunities associated with behavior. These include Ethics & Integrity Risk Assessments and Surveys, among others. This is what informs our strategy, interventions and approach to tackle underlying issues associated with unethical conduct. The Ethics research output is disseminated to stimulate interest in ethics and integrity issues.
Ethics & Integrity Training
Our ETHICS & INTEGRITY TRAINING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES are aimed at building capacity in ethics and integrity for Companies, Organizations, Institutions and the Public at large.

Our objective is to help organizations come up and formulate relevant interventions, policy and strategies aimed at Institutionalizing Ethics, Integrity and good leadership that support ethical business and reduce levels of corruption. Many institutions have gone through our ethics
& integrity training seminars across the country, and they include; Kenya Ports Authority, Kenya Power, National Social & Security Fund, Kenya Maritime Authority, East Africa Portland Cement, Kenya Ferry Services, Sony Sugar, and many others.
Ethics & Integrity Advisory
Our ADVISORY PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES and services are offered to companies and organizations on how to institutionalize ethics & Integrity within the organization. We provide advice on how to carry out integrity testing and staff vetting programs, set up structures, ethics & integrity resources (code of ethics, anticorruption policies, etc.) and processes. We help Organizations put on the lenses to see better in terms of Ethical and Integrity practices, policy and standards.
Ethics & Integrity Advocacy
Our ADVOCACY PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES are robust and geared towards creating ethics and integrity awareness creation, ethics skill building across different sectors and to champion for supportive policy and practice both in the Government, private sector
and the community.
The following are our areas of Advocacy Focus;
Information Education and Communication: Ethics Institute of East Africa runs a monthly magazine ‘The Ethics Watch’ Magazine as a tool to disseminate Ethics information, highlight and showcase good ethics practice and educate target audience on key ethical issues. The magazine is also used as a tool to celebrate ethics champions and good ethical practices both at the corporate, government, and community level. We also prepare IEC books and bookslets targeted at the general public, schools, colleges and churches.

These materials and distributed both in print and e-copy and are used as awareness creation and education tools. One such materials is the recently launched book titled ‘Ethics of Life’ which was published in partnership with ZionPearl Publishers.

School based Ethics Clubs: Ethics Institute of East Africa runs ethics clubs in schools and colleges creating a synergy with schools and colleges to nurture ethical culture in educational institutions. Students who are part of ethics Clubs meet regularly to learn
about ethics and ethical culture and accountability, often facilitated by a focus teacher from Ethics Institute of East Africa. The clubs also collaborate with teachers, principals, and other duty-bearers to solve ethical issues identified in the institutions and the
communities around the institutions. Issues in schools range from teacher absenteeism to lack of classrooms and other facilities, poor maintenance, and lack of toilets and sanitation.
Outside the schools and colleges, these ethics clubs will monitor services and infrastructure projects which are important to them and their community, such as road rehabilitation works, constructions of wells, or health services. Once identified, issues are brought up in collaborative fora where solutions are discussed and adopted.
The Ethics Clubs are set up to ensure the active participation of boys, girls and young people at risk of exclusion (for example due to disability, ethnicity, or living in a particularly high level of poverty).
Media campaigns: In partnership with local media houses and influencers in the digital social media spaces, Ethics East Africa runs campaigns to sensitize and educate the general public on issues of Ethics and anticorruption. Several such discussions have
happened recently in stations such as Spice FM and Radio Jambo.
Public Webinars and Lectures: The EthicEA has partnered with institutions such as USIU and other Universities to run Webinars aimed at bringing together relevant stakeholders and sensitize the public on Ethics and Anticorruption issues to create ethical culture in the society.

Ethics Movement: This is an awareness campaign aimed at mobilizing Millions of Ethics Champions to agitate for Ethical Leadership at Community, Corporate and Government Levels. It aims at pulling the masses together against corruption, bad leadership and unethical practices that may derail economic development of the regions affected.
Ethics Dialogues at local and regional levels: The Ethics Institute of East Africa runs both virtual and physical ethics dialogue sessions at local, national, regional levels to sensitize and incorporate leaders and communities they come from in creating ethical culture for development purposes.
Annual Ethics Seminars: Ethics Institute of East Africa, as part of its advocacy campaign, runs ethics seminars in partnership with anchor institutions like USIU, civil society groups and relevant institutions or commissions to bring synergy against corruption in East Africa.

ETHICEA MANAGEMENT TEAM
The EthicEA Management team is made of people of high integrity and very much involved in ethics & integrity enforcement activities in Africa. All staff joining EthicEA are extensively vetted to ensure EthicEA’s integrity is totally maintained by all those
people working for the organization.
EthicEA Leadership
Chief Executive Officer is Mr. Joseph Patterson Okhako who is an ethics & integrity consultant of high repute with Twenty (20) years’ experience in managing ethics and integrity in both public and private institutions. Mr. Okhako is the founding Director and vision carrier for Ethics Institute of East Africa and also provides strategic leadership to the organization. Mr. Okhako is the Author of the Book; “The Ethics of Life – Principles and Practices of Defining Your Ethical Path” that explains on how to develop and nurture individual and institutional ethical culture.
Our Trainers
Our trainers and strategic alliance partners are specialists in their relevant fields, not only as trainers but also with proven track records in business and ethics and integrity management. All our trainers are committed to the EthicEA’s vision, mission and Values.