Georgia third in Transparency International’s Government Defence Integrity index for Central, Eastern Europe
Latvia received the highest score – 67 (low risk) and Azerbaijan the lowest – 15 (critical risk) in the region. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Transparency International has released its Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) for 2020, the world’s leading assessment of corruption in government defence institutions, in which Georgia placed third in Central and Eastern Europe after Latvia and North Macedonia, with some of the least corruption risk in the region.
The GDI is designed to measure corruption risk in defence and security institutions. It assesses the existence, effectiveness, and enforcement of institutional safeguards to corruption across five key risk areas: financial, operational, personnel, political, and procurement. Georgia ranked third in politics, sixth in finance, and second in personnel, second in the operational category while it took six place in terms of procurement.
Georgia has received a score of 60 out of 100, placing it in the category of having ‘moderate risk of corruption in the field of defense’.
In the ranking, 100 points indicate the lowest risk of corruption, while 0 indicates the highest risk.
Five other countries from the Central and Eastern Europe region which also have a moderate risk of corruption are Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Macedonia.
Latvia received the highest score – 67 (low risk) and Azerbaijan the lowest – 15 (critical risk) in the region.
The Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) finds more than half of the 15 countries assessed in the region face a high risk of corruption in their defence and security sectors,” says Transparency International Defence and Security.
The 15 countries which were involved in the report are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia and Ukraine.
The 2020 TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix ranked Georgia in 28th of 194 counties in its annual bribery prevalence in business measurement.
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.
Global anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International (TI) has today released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and Georgia has moved to 41th position this year
The Georgian government has confirmed the 2019-2020 anti-corruption strategy and an action plan, the fifth of its kind and the first which have undergone assessment by the EU, Georgian Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani said.
The European Union and World Bank joint project ‘Georgia Financial Inclusion and Accountability’ in partnership with the National Reforms Support Foundation in Accounting, Reporting and Auditing (RSF), held a virtual award ceremony yesterday to announce the winners of the ‘Best Annual Report and Transparency Award’ (BARTA).
Georgia ranks 45th among 180 countries and territories across the world in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020 published by the Transparency International, standing on top of all Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) says that the current situation regarding corruption in Georgia is characterized by ‘impressively low levels of petty corruption combined with near total impunity for high-level corruption’.