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Description
In the past 15 years the level of bribery in Lithuania has decreased three-fold falling to the all-time low in 2019. Yet, high-level corruption such as nepotism remains widespread. Citizens consider municipalities as one of the most corrupt institutions in Lithuania.
The solution: TI Lithuania, together with its partners, will conduct monitoring and evidence-based advocacy initiatives aiming to increase transparency and accountability of municipal level politicians, public authorities and other institutions, as well as citizen engagement at the municipal level. The main project target groups are (1) municipal level politicians and decision-makers, (2) local community leaders and (3) representatives and decision-makers from national authorities, associations.
Planned results:
1) stronger evidence-based advocacy by TI Lithuania and its partner CSOs, improved monitoring of public institutions (proposals to at least 6 pieces of national legislation addressing local governance issues, at least 35 public policy proposals);
2) increased transparency and accountability of politicians and public institutions (at least 38 monitoring initiatives aimed at increasing the level of transparency of at least 250 public institutions and of at least 180 municipal level politicians and public officials, at least 5 online tools with the newest data from municipalities aimed at increasing citizens‘s opportunities to monitor public sector institutions and local level politicians);
3) increased civic participation, improved civic education (at least 10 schools supported in engaging some 2500 members of school communities and at least 2 municipalities in engaging some 500 citizens in public consultations and decision-making processes; at least 80 thousand citizens engaged via online tools);
4) strengthened partnerships with and improved networking capacity of TI Lithuania and at least 16 partners, jointly implementing at least 28 initiatives.
Summary of project results
Problem that TI Lithuania addressed with this project: corruption at the municipal level.
The main project target groups were (1) municipal level politicians and decision-makers, (2) local community leaders and (3) representatives and decision-makers from national authorities, associations. During the project data on municpalities were gathered and analyzed, scrutiny over public institutions was implemented, also data - based advocacy initiatves were initiated. Through various initiatives such as participatory budget, the opportunities of citizens to participate were increased.
Project results: (1) stronger evidence-based advocacy by TI Lithuania and its partner CSOs, improved monitoring of public institutions (proposals to 11 pieces of national legislation addressing local governance issues, at least 35 public policy proposals); (2) increased transparency and accountability of politicians and public institutions (43 monitoring initiatives implemented together with partners, aimed at increasing the level of transparency of municipal and national level politicians and public officials, newest data from municipalities published in different TI Lithuania’s online tools, increased opportunities of citizens to monitor public sector institutions and local level politicians); (3) increased civic participation, improved civic education (13 schools supported in engaging some 4 thousand members of school communities; 82 thousand citizens engaged via online tools); (4) strengthened partnerships with and improved networking capacitiy of TI Lithuania (18 public and private sector institutions engaged, jointly implementing 29 initiatives).