As part of the project people fighting corruption were given an award. Follow-up measures: involving award winners in network, providing platforms for their story etc.
Policy Area: Other
Crime and culture
The research project aimed to develop means to optimize corruption prevention in the EU. urgency of such a project was reflected in the fact that corruption holds the potential to retard seriously the process of the Community’s enlargement and integration, even to the extent of threatening the very core of its concept of social order. The prevention policies that have been developed by the EU and implemented so far within individual member countries have in general been characterized by legislative, administrative and police force measures. These are based on a definition of corruption prevention developed in political and administrative institutions that, for its implementation, rely on a “top-down“ procedure. The research project purported to conduct not an inquiry into the nature of corruption “as such“, but rather into the perceptions of corruption held by political and administrative decision-makers in specific regions and cultures, those held by actors representing various institutions and authorities, and above all by the citizens and the media in European societies.
Civil society in support of the public administration for more transparency, accessibility and accountability
The aim of the project was to increase the transparency, publicity and accountability of the municipal public administration through a strategic partnerships with the structures of the civil society. The project foresee: elevation of the current conditions regarding the transparency and accessibility in the work of the municipal administration; dissemination of the opportunities which the Law on Accessibility to Public Information gives to the structures of the civil society to control and monitor the work of the administration; provision of a basis for better cooperation between the municipal administration and the civil society and evaluation of best practices in the field in different EU countries. Some of the activities of the project include: 1. development and support of a web site of the association; 2. survey among civil society organizations regarding the level of transparency and accessibility of the public administration;3. development and publication of information materials concerning the project; 4. realization of educational events and round tables for the target groups – representatives of civil society organizations and experts from the municipal and regional administrations.
Researching public opinion on corruption
The goal of this project is to explore the public opinion as regards corruption.
Using Radio for Public Awareness Against Corruption
The purpose of the project was to inform, educate on causes, consequences, and ways of corruption; influence on fighting the corruption and increase of the responsibility and transparency of public institutions.
Promotion of Housing Maintenance and Utilities Reform in Three Cities of Luhansk Region in Cooperation with Anti-Corruption Efforts in the Housing and Utility Sector
The project represented a public awareness campaign aimed at drawing public attention to corruption in the housing and municipal sector of the local economy. The campaign focused on tariff transparency, fulfillment of housing service contracts, subsidy abuse, etc. As in many other projects, a public advocate’s office was established, through which citizens were able to receive objective information and advice, as well as legal support in ongoing court cases. These legal offices also ensured that appropriate media coverage was given to the outcomes of pending legal proceedings. Information on relevant legal issues was also
made available by the public advocate office through the publication of Housing Services in Your Building, and My House is My Castle brochures.
Access to justice: Introduction of the model “Legal assistance bureau”””
The project aimed to bring about a change in the regulation and grant people the right to receive legal assistance. Its main activities included: 1. data collection and analysis of the system for providing legal assistance by the officially appointed defense lawyers and attorneys; 2.qualitative and quantitative data accumulation and processing concerning the process of providing legal assistance in cases of defense provided by the state; 3. alternative model testing for providing legal assistance by the so-called Legal Assistance Bureau; 4. analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the alternative methods for improving the quality of legal assistance and formulating a public policy by means of which an alternative can be applied.
Anti-Corruption Packages
The project was aimed at monitoring, archivation and presentation of the cases of corruption; and structural support of the organization.
Advocacy and Legal Advice Center (ALAC)
The goal of the project was to increase citizen’s participation in active fight against the corruption through the information and education about corruption.
Monitoring of Georgia’s Implementation of OECD’s Anti-Corruption Network for Transitions Economies Recommendations
The project aimed at ensuring implementation of the recommendations developed under the Anti-Corruption Action Plan by the Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies (ACN) – a regional anti-corruption program of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). To accomplish this, TI Georgia continued to monitor action taken by the government of Georgia to implement the ACN recommendations and present the respective findings to the OECD ACN and the Georgian public.
Bidders Advice Support
The main goal of the project was offering free advice to bidders in the area of protection of rights.
Courses on Investigative Journalism
The project was comprised of teaching individuals (mainly students) on how to do investigative journalism: classes on legislation, society etc. as well as writing courses.
Citizens’ complaints on judicial inspection: increasing transparency and accountability of the judiciary toward the public
The project aimed at promoting the accountability and transparency of the judiciary through establishing effective ways of handling citizens’ complaints and increasing the involvement of the public in judicial inspections. The project sought to influence improvement of legislation with regard to the access of individuals to the judicial inspection process. In addition, the project was expected to increase information of the public regarding the procedures and ways of following up complaints regarding judges and courts, and in particular the public participation and cooperation during the inspection of judicial cases.
Civil Transparency Center
Anti-corruptive Patrol: The direction aimed to monitor the activities which were carried out by the Rustavi Branch of the Civil Registry Agency, by providing newsletters regarding their work. Finally the monitoring process was successfully accomplished, followed by recommendations which were delivered to the Civil Registery Agency Chairman at the Rustavi Branch. The monitoring was attended by the lawyer of Rustavi Council, NGO representatives, journalists and students. In the year of 2006, the monitoring aimed to perform the quarterly analysis of budget programs in the city of Rustavi and Gardabani district. After research completion, the Civil Development Agency (CiDA) issued the brochures which were delivered to governmental/non-governmental structures. The obtained information was also available via newspapers published by CiDA.
The Project Implementation of Transparent and Corruption-Free Procedures of City Development
EUCCI coordinated the work of ACTION’s Public Anti-Corruption Advocacy Network focused on construction and city development and fulfilled the work on transparent procedures of construction and city development.
Promoting Quality Dialogue between Political Leaders and the Public
The goal of the project: to support a quality dialogue between political leaders and public that was created as a result of the lack of good practices to encourage public participation.
Une Votoj (I Vote) – National Assembly
The main objective of the project was to inform and educate the citizens of Albania on how the National Assembly works.
Civil Society for a Clean Parliament
The goal of the project was having a clean parliament by exposing public office abuses by candidates for MPs.
Detection of Corruption in the Czech Public Administration
The project consisted in watchdog activities; monitoring and mapping the corruption space in different public authorities and institutions; evaluation of the systemic risks. The staff members of the organization worked under cover in different institutions, only the director of the NGO was known.
Reducing Political Corruption
An advocacy project, this addressed the need of establishing a transparent system of political parties’ financing and an initiative, which would support the citizens’ rights to familiarize themselves with financial transactions and data regarding the political parties’ finances and management of their respective incomes and expenditures.
New IDP Settlements – Beneficiary Voices
The project sought to:
1. improve future IDP resettlements by bringing the experiences and concerns of already rehoused IDPs to the attention of government figures, donors, implementing agencies and the media;
2. advocate for better provision of aid to already relocated IDPs.
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.
Newspaper in Bratislava Municipality on Clean Government
Students of a course on investigative journalism published their own local newspaper in a suburb of Bratislava known for its intransparent public administration. AFP supported the students in writing articles and publishing the newspaper. The project was stopped because too much AFP capacity/specialized staff was needed.
Anti-corruption measures at the Naturalisation Board of Latvia in the process of acquisition of citizenship
The project consisted in training seminars and an analysis report. Its goals were to: identify specific corruption risks within the process of acquisition of citizenship, evaluate their occurring probability and their level of harmful effect; develop probable solutions and propose short and long term recommendations; sensitize and train the staff of the Naturalisation Board on the issues of corruption risks and their minimization.
Transparency and Civil Participation in Budget Policy of the Self-Governed City of Rustavi
The project was designed to raise public awareness on 2008’s budget of Rustavi in publicly comprehensive language; also to assist interest groups in knowing how to involve into decision-making (media, civil society and youth) and then how to take action with decision-making itself (local government). Program goal: the project aims to encourage transparency, civil participation and enlarged governmental accountability in budget policy. Program objectives:
• Informing interest groups on 2008’s budget of Rustavi;
• Providing platform to 2008’s budget-financed programs for interest groups;
• Improving the civil service agencies of Rustavi self-government;
• Providing skills and knowledge for interest groups and local government on the issues of participation in budget formation process;
• Providing skills and knowledge for local government related with public opinion research and the designs of PR campaign.