Goal of the project:
The goal of the project is to utilise anticorruption instruments in order to involve the citizens and civil participation in the European area. TI – Romania, together with the 3 operative ALACs, are required to provide a detailed analysis on the citizen’s participation and to carry out a study on the existing national legal framework.

Period of the project:
36 months, December 2009 – 2012

Partners:
Konstantz University (Germany)
Warwick University (UK)
Transparency International – Secretariat
Transparency International national chapters in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania and Romania

Objectives:

1. Research on the European legal framework in what regards the rights and the responsibilities of the citizen through specific instruments of TI – ALAC
2. Promoting the ALAC methodology at an European level and recommending it as best practice

Activities:

Phase 1

• Research on the factors that affect the mechanisms of civil participation in the 8 countries
• Research on practice and perception, based on the mechanism offered by ALAC
• Creating the premises for the analysis, at an European level, of the civil participation in the fight against corruption

Phase 2 Analysing, both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the four operative ALACs, i.e. the ones in Romania, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Phase 3 Evaluating the methodology and the improvement proposals for the ALAC mechanisms

Phase 4 Implementing, monitoring and evaluating the 4 ALACs from the perspective of the newly proposed methodology

Phase 5 Improving policies based on recommendations from TI – S and the other national chapters

Phase 6 Organising a meeting between the researchers (Konstantz University) and the practitioners (Transparency International)

Results:

1. Study regarding participative democracy and the European legal framework (month 6, EU consultant)
2. Operational report on the ALAC mechanism at a national level (month 12, TI - RO)
3. Comprehensive report on the general situation of the ALACs (month 15, TI - S)
4. Evaluating ALAC’s efficiency and elaborating recommendations (month 16)

Publications:

1. Study regarding participative democracy and the legal framework at an European Level
2. Operational report on the ALAC mechanism at a national level
3. Comprehensive report on the general situation of the ALACs
4. Evaluating ALAC’s efficiency and elaborating recommendations

Total cost of the project:
999.808 EUR, TI – RO 7.083 EUR

Donors:
European Commission through DG Research