Open Governance and Anti-Corruption

30 June 2015

New Monitoring System Will Control Asset Declarations of Public Officials

Amendment package implies establishment of the monitoring system on the asset declarations of the senior officials.

26 June 2015

Statistical Information on Drug Crimes in Georgia

Statistical information casts doubts on the effectivness of current drug policy in Georgia

26 June 2015

IDFI in the Report of U.S. Department of State

U.S Department of State published a Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014 on June 26. Report is based on the data provided by USA embassies and international missions and gives a multilateral image for 200 countries. Georgia is one of them.

25 June 2015

Legal Analysis of the Draft Law on Civil Service

IDFI welcomes the amendments introduced by the draft law of Georgia on Civil Service. The draft law includes important positive changes to the system of civil service in Georgia. Nevertheless we find that additional steps should be taken in order to improve the draft law on Civil Service and guarantee that it is harmonized with best international practice. You can find our recommendations in the full text of the legal analysis.

24 June 2015

Georgian citizens arrested and deported abroad in 2010-2015 years

According to the information provided by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia 3 715 Georgian citizens were arrested due to the offences committed abroad in 2010-2014. In 2013, as compared to 2010 the number of arrested people is tripled and amounts to 1 178 of Georgian citizens.

18 June 2015

Meeting of the Inter-Fractional Group and the Open Parliament Georgia Working Group

On the 17th of June, Meeting of the Inter-Factional Group and the Open Parliament Georgia Working Group was held. The meeting was conducted within the scopes of the project - "Supporting Parliament of Georgia Involvement in Open Government Partnership".

18 June 2015

Strengthening the role of the society in the process of drafting the Open Parliament Action Plan

Public involvement is key to the openness, it’s one out of the five main priorities set to achieve the parliamentary openness. For this purpose IDFI held a survey between 29th of April to 19th of May. Respondents chose 3 most important recommendations out of 7, which arose as a result of research carried out in regard of Parliamentary Openness.

18 June 2015

The Voice of a Customer - Open Government Partnership Reward Competition

Forum discussed the participation of Georgia at the Open Government Reward Competition in 2015. The subject of the competition for the current year is development of state services that are considered as one of the main components of the transparency governed by OGP.

17 June 2015

Open Georgia: How Open Data Can Be Used As An Anti-Corruption Tool

The paper was prepared for the conference “Central and Eastern European e-Democracy and e-Governance Days” held in Budapest on May 7-8, 2015 by representative of E-governance Institute, Eric B. Jackson

12 June 2015

Meeting with Students regarding Parliamentary Openness

On June 12th, Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, hosted a meeting in order to support the parliamentary transparency, openness and citizen participation within the scopes of the project - “Supporting Parliament of Georgia Involvement in Open Government Partnership”.