Enhance Integrity and Reduce Corruption in State and Private Business Sector

Center for Civil Communications

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Enhance Integrity and Reduce Corruption in State and Private Business Sector

Mission

Strengthen civil society’s impact on decreasing corruption in the business sector

Goals

The project aimed to strengthen civil society’s impact on decreasing corruption in the business sector by improving transparency, accountability and integrity of state-owned enterprises and increasing the private sector’s participation in the fight against corruption.

Stakeholders

The project was implemented by the Center for Civil Communications in Skopje in partnership with Konekt and the Association of Tax Advisers. It was financed by the European Union.

Activities

The project was expected to deliver the following results:

  • Identified generators of corruption, vulnerable areas and activities prone to corruption at state-owned enterprises;
  • Developed tool/indicators on corruption risk assessment at state-owned enterprises;
  • Recommendations for legislative changes and benchmarks on good practices to increase transparency, accountability and integrity of state-owned enterprises;
  • Strengthened capacity for up to 150 private business representatives on preventing and combating corruption;
  • Established support mechanism, as well as compliance and anti-corruption tools for the private business sector;
  • Established core of advocacy CSOs which use research and monitoring to underpin their activities for decreasing corruption in the business sector and
  • Established public-private dialogue platform in the fight against corruption.

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Start year

Status

  • completed
    Work has finished and deliverables/tasks have been completed.

Scope

  • national
    Initiative that operates in and focuses mainly on one country, whether on a national or sub-national level.

Industries

Stakeholders

  • Private sector
    Privately owned commercial (for-profit) entities of all sizes, including SMEs
  • Public sector
    National and sub-national, local government entities, agencies from all branches (policy-making, executive, adjudication)
  • Civil society
    non-governmental organisations (national or international), foundations funded by private entities, faith-based organisations, Professional associations, Industry associations, Chambers of Commerce, Local Global Compact Networks

Type

  • Engagement-focused initiative
    Joint declarations of intent, Joint capacity and learning initiatives, Industry-specific working groups, Joint events/awareness raising, Joint activities and integrity tools

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