Serbia has made some progress on e-government and e-citizens, but has largely stagnated or regressed on freedom of the press and judicial independence. While most public accountability instruments have been adopted and transparency of political parties finance works, politicization of the public sector and government favoritism in procurement have not diminished. Serbia lags behind the European average at competitiveness of public procurement. While its good popular demand for good governance and the EU context are advantages, they risk being offset by braindrain and the inability of the EU accession process to attack legal rents and the quality of regulation more directly.
Country: Serbia
The Splintering of Postcommunist Europe
There are two radically different versions of the postcommunist narrative. One tells the triumphal tale of the only world region in which the reforms recommended by the “Washington consensus” worked. The other and more realistic account speaks of a historic window of opportunity that lasted for only a quarter-century, during which efforts by the West and patriotic elites of Central and Eastern Europe managed to drag the region into Europe proper, leaving Europe and Russia pitted against each other along the old “civilizational” border between them. This essay argues that while Institutional choices matter in the postcommunist world, geopolitical and civilizational boundaries still set the horizons of political possibility.
Serbia’s richest man goes on trial
Serbia’s richest tycoon detained in anti-corruption sweep – The Globe and Mail
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
Fund for an Open Society Serbia
Youth Initiative for Human Rights
A Diagnosis of Corruption in Serbia
How corrupt is Serbia? What type of corruption? How did it evolve during the years? Was it a period when it was more corrupt and what happened to change that? How strong is the civil society in this country? What is its reputation? Are notable anticorruption projects known without research? Are there any anticorruption heroes? What are they? Who are they? This report will present the answers to all these questions and more.
A Diagnosis of Corruption in Serbia
How corrupt is Serbia? What type of corruption? How did it evolve during the years? Was it a period when it was more corrupt and what happened to change that? How strong is the civil society in this country? What is its reputation? Are notable anticorruption projects known without research? Are there any anticorruption heroes? What are they? Who are they? This report will present the answers to all these questions and more.
National Integrity System
The goal of the project was to assess the executive, legislative, and independent institutions.
Open Budget Questionnaire
This was a research and advocacy project aiming to promote public access to budget information and accountable budget-drafting procedures and institutions.
Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID)
Transparency International Serbia
Through transparency of parties
The aim of CeSID
Coalition for free access to information
Having identified that accessing publicly held information was a big issue in Serbia, the project aimed to both improve the existing legislation and empower people to seek information from the government
Fiskalna transparentnost u lokalnim budzetima
Seeing there is a lack of budget transparency, the project aimed to train staff in smaller municipalities in Serbia to monitor the budget.
Advocacy and Legal Advice Center (ALAC)
Legal councils provided advice to citizens who were victims of corruption or who knew of corrupt cases.
Bidders Advice Support
The main goal of the project was offering free advice to bidders in the area of protection of rights.
Capacity Building as one of the Key factors in Developing Transparent and Non-discriminatory Public Procurement in Serbia
The project comprised monitoring the process of capacity building of anti-corruption institutions.
Capacity building in public procurement Serbia
The project aimed at improving administrative structures, mechanisms and skills, to identify and suggest rectification of loopholes in public procurement legislation.
Efficient Public Procurement
This was a public procurement education project on the protection of bidders rights.
Good Governance Matrix
This was a pilot research of estimating the practice of good governance in Serbia.
How much and how do media in Serbia write about corruption and misuses of functions
The project aimed to develop indicators for measuring the media reporting.