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CORRUPT CITIES - A NETWORK TO CURE AND PREVENT

CORRUPT CITIES - A NETWORK TO CURE AND PREVENT. COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT - Working together for organizational integrity and preventing corruption . Giorgi Meskhidze Amiran Gigineishvili.

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CORRUPT CITIES - A NETWORK TO CURE AND PREVENT

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  1. CORRUPT CITIES - A NETWORK TO CURE AND PREVENT COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT - Working together for organizational integrity and preventing corruption GiorgiMeskhidze AmiranGigineishvili Supported by FPDL/Local Government Initiative of the Open Society Institute “Program for Anticorruption Practitioners - PAP 2010”

  2. Question 1 What is this Anti-Corruption Initiative and how did you become involved in it?

  3. Program for Anticorruption Practitioners – PAP* FPDL initiated with the support of LGI/OSI and WBI, PAP*, aimed at establishing a network of skilled anti-corruption practitioners to work with LGs, to cure and prevent corruption. CivitasGeorgica got involved in the process in 2009 by participating in PAP*. After FPDL theoretical and practical training, we have implemented a pilot project in Lanchkhuti municipality.

  4. Question 2 Can you tell to our international audience a little bit about Lanchkhuti municipality?

  5. Lanchkhuti Municipality • Location: West Georgia, mainly mountainous with Black Sea coast • Population: 40 000 people, one town and 15 surrounding communities. • Socio-Economic situation: Few employment opportunities, but developed civil society & media • Local government structure: • local council (elected) and executive branch/mayor (appointed) • 26 elected council members and 107 employees in mayor’s office

  6. Question 3 Why did you pick Lanchkhuti municipality to work with? Is it particularly known as a corrupt city?

  7. Reasons for selection of Lanchkhuti municipality PAP* approach focuses on prevention and on building organizational integrity so that there is neither opportunity, nor motivation, to engage in corrupt behavior. Why Lanchkhuti? Experienced in working with civil society organizations Average size, income – typical municipality Cooperative and open to innovations

  8. Question 4 Why did Lanchkhuti local government agreed to take part in this project?

  9. Reasons for interest of Lanchkhuti Nothing like that was ever done in Georgia before, would like to be the first (pioneer) to try it Zero-tolerance policy towards corruption (in particular bribery) declared by central government Experience in previous cooperation with Civitas Important to talk in pre-elections about transparency, accountability and integrity

  10. Question 5 So how did you go on with the corruption prevention process?

  11. The process – start-up Obtaining strong support from mayor, signing a memorandum of collaboration Establishing strong working team – guiding coalition formed by nine members: deputy mayor (leader of the group), heads of departments: Procurement, Finance & Budgeting, Property Management, Public Relations, Infrastructure & Development, Social Services, Organizational (including human resources) , one local councilor

  12. Question 6 • Who decided on the guiding coalition composition? • Did it change during the project? • Why do you have a representative of local council engaged? • And, why the local team are not you, the consultants?

  13. Guiding Coalition • Mayor recommended key managers – department heads. • The composition changed due to LG elections in May, 2010. However, some people remained engaged. • Presence of elected council member, gave legitimacy to the work of the coalition as strategic plan must be approved by the council. • Ownership for the process and results stay with guiding coalition.

  14. Question 7 Which were key stages in your work with the guiding coalition?

  15. The process – summary Stage 4 – Working out solutions & elaborating the strategic plan Stage 3 – Getting to root causes of problems Stage 2 –analysis and identification of vulnerable to corruption areas • Stage 1 – Information collection - Documents & Survey

  16. Question 8 What did the survey demonstrate and which areas did the guiding coalition select to focus on?

  17. Vulnerability Analysis Survey Results

  18. Question 9 What did the strategic plan contain?

  19. Focus areas of strategic plan • 1. Human resources management: • Recruiting/dismissal • Promotion, bonuses, assessment • Most of activities focused on this • 2. Improvement of municipal territory • Selection of infrastructure projects • Control of implementation/monitoring of implementation of infrastructure projects • Less actions here due to introduction of electronic tender system

  20. Lanchkhuti LG strategic objectives • Improve management and increase transparency of infrastructure projects selection and implementation in the interests of citizens • Establish adequate working conditions for effective functioning of staff • Increase staff qualification and motivation • Develop service regulations and standards to prevent and limit the possibilities of misuse of the official position for personal gains

  21. Question 10 Why did Lanchkhuti local government decide to focus on these two fields selected and not others?

  22. Reasons for Lanchkhuti choice • Decentralization process in Georgia not complete • Many functions that are under control of LG in Europe are still at national level in Georgia. • Thus, the emphasis was put on issues that the municipality can tackle independently.

  23. Question 11 So what were results of your work? What did each of you learn from your engagement in this one year project?

  24. Lessons Learned - LG Different forms of corruption – not only bribery, cultural issues – nepotism, protectionism Despite the fact that we all (guiding coalition members) work in the same building, our communication needed improvement Strategic thinking Elaboration of the plan is not enough, it needs implementation Our plan will be part of the national plan

  25. Lessons Learned - Consultants Focus on municipal function/area rather than department Publicity of the project is important Communication and meeting with the coalition should occur at least once a month, homework in between Engagement of elected council representative in the work of guiding coalition is crucial

  26. Contact Information “Civitas Georgica” 97 Tsinamdzgvrishvili St. Tbilisi, 0164, Georgia Tel: +995 32 951991 Fax: +995 32 911948 E-mail: office@civitas.ge Blog: www.civitas.ge/wordpress/ www.civitas.ge

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