Fighting corruption and improving governance

Corruption represents a major threat to development and progress. Every year in the world more than 1000 billion dollars are given as bribes. Corruption is characteristic both of poor and wealthy countries. In order to respond to this challenge, the United Nations Development Programme started an anti-corruption project implemented by Transparency International-Moldova. The initiative's general objective is to strengthen national capacities to fight corruption in the Republic of Moldova .

The main areas of work and achievements:

Research
Transparency International-Moldova has published a series of papers and research findings on corruption as it relates to various areas: corruption and the private sector, corruption and tax evasion, corruption in the public procurements system, corruption and the customs system, access to justice, ethics in the private and public sectors, the consequences of corruption on the country's economic and social development.

On World Anti-Corruption Day, declared by the United Nations and promoted in Moldova by Transparency International, nine new publications were launched in Chisinau, of which two presented the National Framework for Corruption Prevention and Control in the Republic of Moldova .

Institutional cooperation
“Every piece of research carried out by Transparency International-Moldova contains a series of proposals to fight corruption in the area under study, whether by amending the legal or institutional framework, or the policies promoted by the state,” says Lilia Carasciuc, TI-Moldova Executive Director. “In fact, the proposals formulated by TI-Moldova and aiming at preventing and fighting corruption in the country have been included into the National Strategy for Fighting Corruption in Moldova , while the corruption perception index has improved in recent years.”

With a partner such as the Academy of Public Administration , under the President of the Republic of Moldova , TI-Moldova has organized a series of training events for local public administrations with a focus on the threats of corruption and prevention methods. Also thanks to TI-Moldova, civil servants have now an anti-corruption guide to refer to.

Public information and awareness campaigns on the threats posed by corruption

TI-Moldova has today a collection of more than 2,500 anti-corruption cartoons by artists from Moldova , made in the last three years by participants in anti-corruption competitions for cartoonists. The drawings have been collected in 5 separate volumes.

A cartoon by the Moldovan artist Alex Dimitrov was selected to illustrate the cover and several chapters of a Global Corruption Report.

On 29 May 2004 , in Chisinau, Transparency International-Moldova organized, in the framework of the UNDP project “Strengthening the National Capacity to Fight Corruption”, a concert with the slogan “No Corruption!”. The concert was attended by more than 5,000 people and featured the following artists: Nelly Ciobanu, Constantin Moscovici, Georgeta Voinovan, In Quadro, Snails, Adrian Ursu, Elegance, Life Style and others.

A group of 55 young volunteers, wearing T-shirts with the TI-Moldova logo, disseminated anti-corruption advocacy and information materials.

“Through our work we try to create islands of integrity by involving the civil society, which has an essential role to play in preventing corruption and understanding the consequences of this phenomenon,” says Lilia Carasciuc, Transparency International-Moldova Executive Director.

TI-Moldova works with partners from among state institutions, the public sector, as well as the civil society: Supreme Security Council, Centre for Fighting Economic Crimes and Corruption, Academy of Public Administration , Small Business Association, Union of Lawyers, Union of Journalists, the media, including the local ones, artists, and nongovernmental organizations.

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