Gov’t confirms 2017-2018 anti-corruption strategy
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The Government of Georgia has adopted an 2017-2018 anti-corruption strategy which is focused on prevention and higher level transparency in state institutions.
A statement released by the Ministry of Justice reads that Georgia has achieved the biggest success against corruption in the Eastern Europe and is distinguished by a low level of corruption among the European countries.
Georgia’s anti-corruption efforts were one of the key reasons the country became the chair of the Open Government Partnership,” the Ministry statement said.
Through the new strategy Georgia has moved to a new stage in combating corruption.
Now, like in democratic European nations, the state is focused on ensuring high-level of transparency and accountability of the state institutions, availability of information, increasing of the public involvement in a decision-making process and establishing more refined mechanism to prevent corruption,” the Justice Ministry reported.
The Ministry announced the anti-corruption strategy and an action plan were elaborated by the interagency coordinative council, with the involvement of 38 state bodies, 14 NGOs and three business representatives.
The new strategy covers 16 priority topics, more than 60 events and about 200 activities,” the statement reads.
The goals of the new strategy are:
- The establishment of a fair salary system in the public service.
- The elaboration of a communication strategy about corruption issues with the public.
- The establishment of a transparent salary and bonus systems for prosecutors, as well as refining the articles referring to ethics and interest conflicts in relation of judges and prosecutors.
- The implementation of an electronic program of judicial disciplinary proceedings and solving the issues of salary supplements and bonuses for judges.
- The adoption of the law on freedom of information.
- The refining of an administrative mechanism to make state-covered health programs more transparent.
- The empowerment of Civil Advisers’ Councils in municipalities.
- The improvement of control mechanisms for infrastructural projects and others.
A new report by the Council of Europe has acknowledged considerable progress in reducing corruption in Georgia and improving the country’s standing in related international ratings.
Georgia’s ranking in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) improved by four spots in 2016, with the country now ranked in 44th place out of 176 countries.
Global anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International (TI) has today released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and Georgia has cemented itself as among the best of Eastern European states and some European Union nations.
Business sector representatives and the vast majority of companies are satisfied with the business environment in Georgia and believe there is virtually no perception of corruption in the country they operate in.
Georgia has cemented its position as one of anti-corruption leaders among Eastern European and Central Asian countries, according to Transparency International’s (TI) recently-published 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Georgia ranks 46th out of 180 countries, ahead of Eastern Partnership nations.
Georgia was elected president of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Vienna, Austria yesterday.
Local NGO Transparency International Georgia (TI) says that dealing with various forms of corruption remains major challenge for Georgia.
Transparency International has released its Corruption Perceptions Index 2019, with Georgia ranking 44th among 180 countries and territories across the world, standing on top of all Eastern European and Central Asian countries.In the index, which measures sector corruption according to experts and business people, Georgia has received 56 scores of total 100.
The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO has published its annual report for 2019 earlier today on how CoE member states (as well as Belarus, Kazakhstan and the US) are preventing corruption among MPs, judges and prosecutors.