The project aims to deliver shared anticorruption solutions to increase the accountability of state institutions and strengthen civil society and the rule of law in SEE through capacity building on implementing best practice European social research innovation instruments. The action aims to close anticorruption policy implementation and public procurement gaps across SEE, which will amplify the impact of the planned increase in EU infrastructure support until 2025. The focus will be placed on 9 beneficiary countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia).

The public-private partnership approach will allow target groups to share solutions across EU and non-EU borders in SEE, based on 4 pillars: 

  1. Established Regional Good Governance Public-Private Partnership Platform (R2G4P) which will create a sustainable regional public-private partnership for shared good governance solutions.
  2. Increased capacity of public institutions and NGOs to diagnose and tackle corruption risks through 4 specialised three-day regional trainings for R2G4P members and annual summer school for 25 outside participants.  The training modules will include: a) MACPI: Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation; b) Opentender.eu: big data and network analysis to develop innovative risk indicators; and c) tackling state (policy, regulatory) capture and emerging corruption risks. Manuals will guide each module.
  3. Designed shared management and policy anti-corruption solutions, through producing annual SEE Good Governance Reports, each accompanied by 9 anticorruption reviews for public institutions, based on MACPI and opentender.eu methods.
  4. Communication and engagement strategy, including an opening conference, annual policy forums, and a closing summit.

Summary of bilateral results

The expertise partners from CMI (Norway):

designed and ran instruction sessions at three summer school, sharing knowledge on best international practices, as well as key findings on new emerging topics from the work of the U4 anti-corruption center (part of CMI);

provided guidance on how R2G4P's advocacy efforts could be enhanced, and how the anti-corruption reforms could be sustained through building of coalitions, leadership, analysis, and behavioural change;

supported the process of attracting government representatives as speakers at R2G4P knowledge-sharing and policy events;

supported the design of analytical reports, including advice on methodologies used;

critically reviewed all three SEE Good Governance reports, providing comments that informed draft revisions;

supported project operations, through active contribution in monthly meetings, supplying subscriptions and books for the consortium, regular financial reporting;

supported communications and outreach, including via use of CMI’s communications team for social media, as well as by preseting CMI’s knowledge on communication and advocacy during a workshop;

led the process of opening a call and contracting an external evaluator to assess the impact of the R2G4P initiative, as well as the level of cooperation between donor and beneficiary states.

Project details

Project info
Period
2014-2021
Project Website
https://seldi.net/r2g4platform/
Approval date
Grant financing
1458149.00€
Final project cost
1459519.08€

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