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Local Anti-Corruption Initiatives
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This brochure
represents an attempt to analyze and summarize the activities and
results of the first stage of the Small Projects program of
Coalition 2000. Following a competition held in the beginning of
1999, thirteen non-governmental organizations, most of them based
in different Bulgarian town and cities, were included in the first
pilot stage of the program. They include: 'Civic Council in
Razgrad' Citizens Coalition, 'Stefan Stambolov' Bulgarian Youth
League - Smolian, Center for the Study of Political Processes -
Shoumen, 'Lecturers' NGO - Plovdiv, 'Revived Civil Society'
Regional Association - Pleven, InfoEcoClub - Vratza, Black Sea
Legal Community - Bourgas, 'Sexaginta' Open Education Youth Center
- Rousse, as well as the Sofia-based Christian Revival Movement,
the Corruption-free Society Association, the Association of Young
Lawyers, the Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development, and the
Bulgarian Association for Fair Elections and Civil Rights. Within a
time frame of three months (April - June 1999) they conducted
activities covering the whole spectrum of the anti-corruption
campaign: participation in the Clean Future Public Awareness
Campaign, local government monitoring, establishment of
anti-corruption structures, using different instruments to expose
and curb corrupt practices in the respective municipalities.
Despite the fact that such a short time frame does not enable the
potential of the Coalition 2000 local initiatives to be fully
utilized, the experience accumulated during that time can be used
to map out future spheres, forms of organization, and instruments
in this new part of Bulgarian reality. This is why the brochure
focuses on the practices which seem most promising for our future
work. It will continue with the second stage of the Small Projects
1999-2000 program within whose framework a permanent cooperation
structure will be established with local NGOs as part of the
Coalition 2000 process.
In a structural respect the pamphlet consists of two main
sections. The first contains analyses of the pilot stage of local
initiatives conducted by Coalition 2000 experts. The second section
presents the so-called "best practices", as well as some
sociological studies conducted by our local partners. With the
stipulation that these are initiatives in their pilot, i.e.
experimental, stage we recommend them as already tested instruments
which could effectively be used to accomplish the goals of
anti-corruption activity.
A List of Activities under the Small Projects program of the 13
NGOs is appended.
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