March 1- 31, 2001

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Kazakhstan: 
Transparency Kazakhstan has launched a new website --
Transparency Kazakhstan has launched a new website. It provides information about TI Kazakhstan activities and accomplishments, monitors corruption trends in Kazakhstan, publishes press releases and TI’s bulletins, contains texts of legal documents, and facilitates networking among interested parties.

Kyrgyzstan:  
Public Opinion Poll on Corruption --
An independent center for public opinion studies in Bishkek announced on 21 February the results of its survey on corruption in Kyrgyzstan. 15.5 percent of the 2,100 people surveyed said that economic reforms have had little success due to widespread corruption in the country. 90 percent of them said that the police is the most corrupted organization in Kyrgyzstan and 40 percent said that the country's leadership is not able to fight against corruption. The center works with the help of the United Nations Development Program.  The full report will be posted on the UNDP/Kyrgyzstan website.

Serbia:
Tackling Municipal Corruption in Serbia --
Representatives of 15 Serbian municipalities discussed anti-corruption measures at a workshop organized by UNDP and the European Movement in Serbia on 23-24 February in Belgrade.  Participants from civil society, the media and the donor community in Yugoslavia joined in the event, which was part of an ongoing project of the European Movement in Serbia to tackle municipal corruption.

The workshop aimed to provide government officials, journalists and civic groups with essential information about municipal procurement and budgeting practices. Public awareness and efficient control in these areas are essential for preventing corruption. The workshop agenda included an introduction to public procurement and best practices by experts from the Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO), a unit of UNDP. IAPSO provides advisory services, direct procurement and training and capacity building.

Presentations by international experts on municipal procurement and budgeting throughout the region were on the agenda, including discussion of Bulgarian municipalities' experience with international aid programmes and generation of municipal revenues through privatization of local infrastructure in Budapest.  Also scheduled were presentation of a project for a "Best Civil Servant Award" by Kreativa, a public relations firm, demonstration of budgeting software by the INKO company, and discussion on information and communications technology in municipal budgeting and procurement.

For more information contact Slobodan Brkic, UNDP Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Bulgaria:
Public-Private Partnerships against Corruption --
An international conference entitled The Impact of the Public-Private Partnership as an Anti-Corruption Instrument:The Experience of Coalition 2000 will be held in Sofia on March 23-24.  The purpose of this conference is: (a) to review the experience of Coalition 2000 in establishing public-private partnerships; (b) to assess the results and the impact of the implementation of such a partnership in fighting corruption and make an inventory of best practices; and (c) to encourage further cooperation among governmental and non-governmental organizations in Southeast Europe within the existing bilateral and multilateral instruments for fighting corruption and organized crime as a security building measure in the framework of the Stability Pact.

Get more information on the Coalition 2000 website.

Ukraine:
Evaluation of the Implementation of the "National Concept on the Fight against Corruption" --
The Coordination Bureau on Criminology in the Ukrainian Academy of Legal Sciences has completed a  new evaluation in 2000  on how the “National Concept on the Fight against Corruption for 1998-2005” has been implemented so far.   The evaluation concludes that the number of scientific  publications, media reports, public opinion surveys, scientific conferences and workshops for practitioners on countering corruption decreased markedly during the year 2000.

More than half  of the anti-corruption measures envisaged by the National Concept are still unfulfilled or not fully implemented. Corruption preventive measures in political activity, the privatization process, tax administration, market competition, and governmental control over entrepreneurship have not been implemented. Governmental activity to issue regulations and permits has not been reduced as had been recommended in the Concept.  For lack of funding, work on creating a database of factors that cause corruption in Ukraine was ceased. The project on this database was originally discussed at the Second Annual Meeting of the Anti-Corruption Network in Istanbul on November 2-3,1999. 

The Public Anti-Corruption Action (PAA) Program also has not been fully implemented. This Program was developed by the Coordination Bureau in accordance with recommendations of the Second Annual Meeting of the Anti-Corruption Network and adopted in Ukraine by the Supreme Rada Committee on Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime.  As a result, such projects of the PAA Program as educational and methodological assistance to NGOs, public awareness campaigns, and  countering corruption in local self-government bodies have not been implemented yet for lack of financial support.

The only project under the PAA Program that has been successfully implemented is the  NGO development and entrepreneurship support project:  in particular, the National Coalition for Integrity Program that has been established with the support of Management Systems International (MSI) and with the sponsorship of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).  This program has achieved visible results in the Donetsk, Lviv, and Kharkiv regions (for further information, visit the website of the program at www.nobribes.org/unci/ ). This activity deserves to be disseminated to other regions of Ukraine.

 In December 2000, a new comprehensive program on preventing crime (2000-2005) was adopted by the President of Ukraine. It envisages some measures to counteract corruption.  The Coordination Bureau will participate in this program’s implementation, improving laws and regulations, publishing anti-corruption materials, learning from foreign experience, elaborating and implementing measures to reduce public tolerance for corruption, and increasing public participation in fighting corruption.

 For the further information, contact Anatoly Zakaliuk at acad@ukrnet.net  or zakalyuk@fm.com.ua.

Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative:
Special Issue of the Newsletter --
Special Issue of the  Newsletter (No.5, February 2001) discusses the results from the first year of activities conducted under the Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative and the plans for 2001.

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