SPAI regional conference
September 17-19, 2001
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Albania's Action Plan under
Pillar 5
The main goal of the Action Plan is to continue and
strengthen the current co-operation and relationship that exist
between the Government and the Civil Society, within a two-fold
plan: 1) Civil Society must embrace the Policy Makers; 2) The
Government consults and involves the Civil Society and the NGO
Community on the decision making process.
Both the Government (ACMG Board, ACMG PU, and Inter
Ministerial Commission on Anti-Corruption) and civil society
representatives agree to support the following actions:
Public Attitudes
- Publicise through media and different publications
pamphlets activities and information on:
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- ACMG Board Activities and Reports;
- Permanent Unit Activities and Reports;
- Coalition's Activities, Public Survey reports.
This process must be undertaken by each role player,
with their own means, but by explaining through this process the
following:
- Steps taken;
- Results achieved;
- Recommendations.
Time line: Every 3 months
- The Government and civil society will continue to
co-operate on public awareness and public education through a joint
and monthly organised Public Forum on Anti-Corruption and its
prevention, government efforts and civil society efforts.
Time Line: Every month
Legal Environment
Civil Society through NGOs', Trade Unions, and
business associations co-operate and co-ordinate together to
establish the following:
- Draft a Strategy Plan and have a lobby platform for
tax exemption/reduction for charitable related activities;
Time line: 3 months
- Through media, and especially TV, conduct a public
awareness campaign on the issue of the necessary steps that need to
be taken by the Government toward incentives on charitable
activities;
Time line: 5 months
- Consult with experts and start up a dialogue with
Government on the new legislation clauses.
Time line: 10 months
Increase Civil Society Capacity to Fight
Corruption
- Parallel Strategies carried out by the NGOs
and the local government will be organised to do the
following:
- Local Government assess its needs and its
financial independent resources in its disposal;
- NGOs assess their own and their partner's expertise, credibility
and sustainability to carry out Anti-Corruption specific projects
for the local government.
Time line: 3 months
Finalise this process with a workshop to draw
recommendations and commitments from both sides, and adopt a final
framework.
Time line: 3 months
- Organise a national/regional workshop to exchange
and draw expertise on how to conduct:
- Lobbying for legislation and law implementation
initiatives related to anti corruption;
- Increase the public awareness and prevention measures;
- Monitoring Corruption
All role players must participate in the open
dialogue format.
Time line: 7 months
State of Media
- Strengthen the local NGOs, which handle the
media-training component.
Time line: on going
- Encourage professional investigative journalism by
awarding an "Annual Journalism Fighting Corruption" Price.
Time line: 12 months
- By ensuring financial support implement the
following steps:
- Supplements in the daily
newspapers with articles related to fight against corruption and
stories about corrupt practices;
- Show stories on TV national channels on corrupt practices;
- Draft and publish a manual on " Special Means of Professional
Investigating Journalism" for journalists and students in
journalism;
- Complete the University curricula of the School of Journalism
with a special course on Investigating Journalism.
Time Line: 12 months
- Improve and institutionalise the employment terms
for journalist's employment contracts according to the Albanian
labour code.
Time line 12 months
- Increase and promote anti-corruption cross-border
media activities.
Time line: 12 months
Government Transparency and Co-operation
- Establish and finalise the Government structures
related to public relations offices on providing public access and
information related to anti-corruption initiatives, and other
related information and data base;
- Draft unique standard procedures on how to provide
information from Government to the civil society;
- Publish a Handbook on the Standard Procedures for Public
Education.
Time line: 5 months
- Encourage and work on the publication of a
"Street Law" Handbook covering wide information on:
- What corruption practices
are;
- What the legal provisions related to corruption practices
are;
- How to report corruption?
- How to monitor corruption?
- Information on anti-corruption structures and activities carried
out by government and civil society.
Time line: 12 months
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