Corruption and Anti-Coruption in Southeast Europe 12 September 2015 Krusevo David Kern-Fehrenbach Center for the Study of Democracy/SELDI Secretariat
Content 1. Measuring Corruption in SEE 2. Anti-Corruption in SEE The Corruption Monitoring System 1. Measuring Corruption in SEE Institutions Judiciary Civil Society Organisations 2. Anti-Corruption in SEE
personal or group benefits abuse of power personal or group benefits
The Corruption Monitoring System Experience based corruption indexes Corruption pressure Involvement in corruption Attitude based corruption indexes Assessments of the corruption environment indexes
The Corruption Monitoring System Experience based corruption indexes Corruption pressure Involvement in corruption Attitude based corruption indexes Assessments of the corruption environment indexes
Corruption Involvement and Pressure
Corruption Involvement and Pressure
Anticorruption institutions difficulties Limited authority Limited capacity
Judiciary insufficient capacity low professionalism excessive workload Missing publicly available statistics on the work of the courts and the prosecution excessive workload
Civil society in anticorruption Among the most important stakeholders in anticorruption Lack of formal mechanisms for engaging civil society on the part of the national governments Lack of understanding of the potential of CSOs Risk of capturing of CSOs by special interests
Deliver effective prosecution of high-level corruption Key recommendations Deliver effective prosecution of high-level corruption
Key recommendations Adopt an independent corruption and anti-corruption monitoring mechanism
Anti-corruption efforts should be focused on critical sectors Key recommendations Anti-corruption efforts should be focused on critical sectors
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