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  Improving Identification and Assistance, and Avoiding Stigmatization on Child Trafficking among Vulnerable Roma Communities
Trafficking in children and the three forms of exploitation that they most often fall victim to: begging, pickpocketing and sexual exploitation of boys have remained outside the focus of policy and research agenda. Furthermore, despite being overwhelmingly represented in all forms of trafficking the Roma remain isolated and stigmatized and there is a lack of understanding of the multiple vulnerability factors that affect them. more »
 
New Policy Evaluation Tool for Monitoring Anticorruption Enforcement
That it is the enforcement of anticorruption policies which needs to be prioritised is now de rigueur in the anticorruption community. This received wisdom, however, has not been followed up by the development of advanced tools for monitoring this enforcement. Both policies and measurements of corruption have remained at the general societal level, with little focus on specific loci, actors or circumstances. In order to upgrade its effectiveness, the anticorruption effort needs to concentrate on the most appropriate level – the individual public organisation. more »
 
Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation: Methodology and First Steps
The Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation (MACPI) supplies evaluators and policy makers with a precision instrument for assessing the design and impact of anticorruption policies at the point of their actual enforcement – the individual public organisation. MACPI is capable of identifying the specific zones of corruption vulnerability in public organisations and assessing the policies that target these vulnerabilities. more »
 
Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation
On 2 June 2015 the Center for the Study of Democracy held a round table to present the Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation (MACPI) tool and the results of its application in the Bulgarian Border Police. more »
 
Child Trafficking among Vulnerable Roma Communities
On 29 May 2015, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) organised in Brussels a policy forum addressing three new forms of trafficking in persons: child trafficking for begging, for pickpocketing and for sexual exploitation of boys and the way they manifest themselves among Roma communities. more »
 
Assessing the Integration of Vulnerable Migrant Groups
On 28 May 2015, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) organised in Brussels a policy conference addressing problematic related to monitoring the integration of vulnerable migrants (migrant women, children and victims of trafficking). more »
 
Bulgaria’s International Competitiveness 2015
On 27 May 2015 the Center for the Study of Democracy presented the results of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2015. In 2015, Bulgaria ranks 55th out of 61 economies, while in 2014 it ranked 56th. more »
 
Round Table: Overcoming Institutional Gaps to Tackle Illicit Financing
On 12 May 2015, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) organised a round table discussion entitled Institutional Measures to Counter the Financing of Organised Crime to debate the current state of the criminal markets in Bulgaria, particularly the smuggling of illegal cigarettes, the drug market and VAT fraud, as well as the practices used to curb these markets applied rather inconsistently in recent years. more »
 
SELDI Policy Advocacy Workshop: Countering Corruption and State Capture for Transparent Energy Governance in SEE
On 28 April 2015 the SELDI initiative held in Belgrade a policy advocacy workshop dedicated to corruption and energy governance. The event marked the beginning of SELDI’s work in delivering anti-corruption solutions in the energy sector in Southeast Europe. more »
 
Training: Models for Supporting Roma Child Victims of Trafficking with the Aid of Community-based Services
On March 30, 2015, the Center for the Study of Democracy hosted a training session entitled Models for Supporting Roma Child Victims of Trafficking with the Aid of Community-based Services. more »
 

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