ESP Anti-Corruption Initiatives
ESP Anti-Corruption Initiatives 2004
ESP Initiative
CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION
Anti-corruption initiatives have been adopted by many governments throughout the region, often with the assistance and funding from major international bilateral and multilateral donors, and frequently civil society actors have provided support to these efforts through awareness and training programs. Nevertheless, corruption remains a problem, both at the national and local level, and the rights of citizens are compromised as a result. Education is not an exception. The transparency of decision making and open access to information; transparent distribution of funds, consultations with social partners, external and internal audits, anti-corruption education programs contribute to more transparent, accountable, non-corrupt practice of education policy.
ESP has started this initiative in 2003 by mapping the educational projects that attempt to improve transparency, accountability and combat corruption in education from the network for further dissemination. Study tour for country teams was organised in co-operation with IIEP UNESCO and Lithuanian Ministry of Education in order to examine experiences of education reform with focus on measures that increase transparency, system accountability and curb corruption.
Fact finding mission was undertaken by joint team of ESP and IIEP representatives in spring 2004 in order to understand better situation in Central Asian countries the performance of education systems with focus to areas of the system most vulnerable to corrupt and unethical practices and to prepare recommendations on possible activities for NGOs to improve transparency and ethics in the sector.
ESP, HESP together with IIEP, organized anti- corruption in education workshop in November 2004, two training sessions are planed for academic year of 2004-2005 in Central Asia.
The online resource pack on the topic has been started to compile and is continuously enriched with new materials and links. CA ECN intends to use these materials, develop version of similar resource collection adapted for Central Asia in Russian 2005.
ESP intends to prepare publication based on mapping and overview of the corruption in education in the region and examples of best experiences and good practice of anti-corruption measures in education.
"Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in Education: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan".
In English
In Russian
Report of the joint technical mission, undertaken by of OSI ESP and IIEP, Paris (UNESCO) in May 2004.
Mission members- Virginija Budiene, OSI ESP; Muriel Poisson, IIEP, Paris (UNESCO) and Jacques Hallak, IIEP, Paris (UNESCO).
Main objectives of the technical mission: to map out the main opportunities for misuse of educational resources in each of the countries concerned (Kz, Kg, Tj) , as well as the promising strategies developed in various educational sub-sectors to improve transparency and accountability.
Corruption and Anti-Corruption Measures in Education. The CIS and the Western Balkans.
CIS and the Western Balkans
This overview covers broad trends in corruption in the education systems of the CIS and the Western Balkans, as well as drawing on specific examples from six countries: Albania, Macedonia, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Tajikistan. Based on country presentations (see References). By Liz Barrett, June 2004.
Anticorruption Initiatives in General Education. Few Examples from the Region
AntiCorruption_projects_gen_ed_.doc