G-Watch contributes to ending corruption by integrating such participatory mechanism in actual government policies and programs, which opens up government transactions to direct scrutiny by the citizens. This is expected to guide and constrain the administrators and other players to appropriate actions and decisions.

G-Watch is primarily addressing corruption in public expenditure, especially in the procurement and delivery of goods and services for various sectors. It has developed and tested tools to monitor textbook delivery, medicines procurement, school building construction, and public works projects.

The activities of G-Watch include establishing partnership with government agencies for the conduct of the monitoring, direct transfer of the tools and methods to citizen groups and communities, and coordination of civil society monitoring initiatives that had been activated. These stakeholders, i.e. government agencies, citizen groups and communities, are likewise considered the beneficiaries of the G-Watch initiatives.

Now, the G-Watch approach is unique because it could bring about concrete results respected by both the government agencies being monitored and the citizen monitors themselves. It is anchored on the trust and confidence of both sectors that things could be accomplished. By being collaborative and inclusive, it puts anti-corruption work in the productive and optimistic mode. On the part of the government, it removes the notion that civil society is simply out to highlight social problems and make demands or go into fault-finding and head-hunting over controversies; and replaces it with the notion that citizens can share the responsibility of making program implementation more effective. On the part of the citizens, it opens up another avenue for civic engagement where the government's vulnerability serves as opportunity for citizens to become part of the solution that will bring the institutions back to their normal functioning.

With respect to citizen groups and communities, G-Watch provides guide for monitoring and relevant information, briefing-orientations and planning-workshops to organize the monitoring initiative, and evaluation sessions after the conduct of the monitoring to generate learnings from the exercise.

Among its major civil society partners in the monitoring include the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Girl Scouts of the Philippines, National Citizens' Movement for Free Election, Parents-Teachers-Community Associations, Transparency and Accountability Network, and Coalition Against Corruption.

The G-Watch influence was felt most strongly in DepED's Textbook Count, a joint effort with various citizen groups to monitor the bidding, production and nationwide delivery of textbooks. Parents, students, Scouts, church parishioners and village leaders served as volunteer monitors for Textbook Count. This has benefited some 20 million public school students who received 64 million textbooks amounting to $52M from 2003 to 2006.

Under the Textbook Count, which used the International Competitive Bidding, the prices of textbooks were also reduced by almost 50%, the procurement process (bidding to delivery) was shortened from 24 to 12 months, and ghost deliveries had been eliminated.

The Textbook Count model was also replicated in other items, such as medicines, school buildings, and pork barrel-funded projects.

The first ensures that the G-Watch's successful initiatives continue to flourish and remain good examples for other government agencies. The second is preparatory to the third or the localization plan, which is the way to efficiently multiply the use of the G-Watch approach. The G-Watch experience had proven that being housed in an academic institution enhances the credibility of the monitoring report and also increases the chances of getting the cooperation of the government agencies. That is the reason for offering the franchise to other universities.

For the Textbook Count, G-Watch was fortunate to have DepED Undersecretary Juan Miguel Luz as guest in the presentation of monitoring report on textbook delivery program. He challenged G-Watch and the civil society to mobilize volunteers nationwide to check 37 million textbooks in some 5,000 delivery points. From then on, he became the G-Watch champion in DepED until he was removed from office because he refused to be used as conduit of illegal funds from the Office of the President.

Leadership in boh government and civil society organizations also tend to change and sometimes transition is not so smooth that previous partnerships are sometimes not continued.