Citizens Engagement for Public Integrity (CEPI) in the Western Balkan and Turkey

Project goal:

The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the rule of law by addressing public integrity deficiencies through:

1. Increased evidence-based anti-corruption policy making and implementation
2. Enhanced civic engagement for public integrity, transparency and accountability.

Regional project “Citizens Engagement for Public Integrity (CEPI) in the Western Balkan and Turkey” has duration of three years and is being implemented in cooperation with Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S) in Berlin. The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the rule of the law by addressing public integrity deficiencies by increasing evidence-based anti-corruption policy making and implementation and enhanced civic engagement.

The evidence-generation will be underpinned by assessments of the performance of targeted beneficiaries’ systems relevant to integrity, accountability and transparency through the so-called National Integrity System (NIS) assessments. NIS assessments will enable decision-makers to target reforms to needs and to support civil society action.

Evidence generation will also be underpinned by updating a regional database of corruption cases with social impact to allow for greater public scrutiny. The project will also build capacities of CSOs and local groups to be able to support concrete advocacy work to involve the broader citizenry.

Core activities:

• Drafting of the National Integrity System (NIS), an evidenced-based findings, ass assessment, which combines comprehensive research and active stakeholder engagement to assess the performance of anti-corruption system.
• Development of policy proposals based on NIS assessment recommendations and priorities
• Update of the Regional online database of corruption cases with social impact
• Building capacities of CSOs, citizen groups and initiatives at the local level