The Armenian Lawyers’ Association (ALA) and the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of in Armenia organized a discussion on 9 December, on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, which was attended by representatives of more than 30 civil society organizations in person and online.

The event was aimed at implementing of the public oversight strategy.

The results of the public monitoring over the implementation of various anti-corruption strategies were presented at the discussion. The monitoring covered the activities carried out in the first half of 2021. A strategy, which included 4 target areas – Anti-Corruption Education, Public Awareness, Prevention of Corruption and Inevitability of Punishment were was chosen for its implementation.

In order to carry out the monitoring, surveys published by various government agencies and reports from the public sector were reviewed.

Ms Suzanna Soghomonyan, Anti-Corruption Expert of the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, presented the “Monitoring Report of the Actions of the Republic of Armenia Anti-Corruption Strategy and Its Implementation Action Plan for 2019+2022 to be carried out in the First Half of 2021”. According to her, the monitoring was carried out by application of several methods.

“In the case of some actions, the monitoring indicators of the strategy do not allow to check the qualitative impact of the actions, and in many cases the adoption of this or that law was mentioned as an indicator. The law was adopted, it was considered performance, and it turned out that we have an excellent result, but what results we achieve, in fact, this issue is not solved by the strategy. It turns out that in terms of quantity we may have a good performance, but in terms of quality we are yielding,” the anti-corruption expert said.

Details in the video.