Tag Archives: anticorruption

Western Balkans 2020: State-Capture Risks and Policy Reforms In the past two decades, the Western Balkan countries have undergone considerable political, social, and economic transformations. However, a number of outstanding challenges remain critical among which is the integrity of public governance. The matter of the rule of law in general …

Deconstructing State Capture in Albania: An Examination of Grand Corruption Cases and Tailor-Made Laws from 2008 to 2020   March 2021 – The existence of state capture in Albania has long been denied despite strong calls by civil society and independent media to examine what many perceived as clear signs …

Integrity building both as a means to increasing the overall performance of the public administration and fighting corruption has been in the focus of research and advocacy activities of IDM. Here are the latest publications related to the integrity building of the State Police. Police Officers Recommend (2021)  English | Albanian …

POLICE OFFICERS RECOMMEND January 2021 – This brief provides a set of recommendations to support the findings of the “Building Integrity to Improve Performance and Sustainability of Anti-Corruption in the Albanian State Police” Project supported by the Embassy of The Netherlands in Albania. The document is the result of several …

The role of civil society in tackling corruption   Speech by IDM’s Executive Director Sotiraq Hroni at the 2020 Albanian OSCE Chairmanship Conference “Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption in the Digital Era: Strengthening the Principles of Transparency, Integrity and Accountability”. This speech was delivered as a part of …

IDM recommends the establishment of an efficient and legitimate National Anti-corruption authority Tirana, 14 December 2018 – IDM jointly with the Supreme State Audit (SAI) organized the conference “Towards an efficient and legitimate National Anti-corruption authority”.  This activity was based on the performance audit report on the “Anti-Corruption Strategy” (SAI) …

Trust in Police is Still Borderline Positive TIRANA, November 6, 2018—Albanian police still deserve the trust of majority citizens despite an 11 percent decrease compared to the last year’s results. Trust in Albanian institutions has been a “roller coaster” – a predominant distrust in 2016 following with major increase in 2017 and …