“Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO, “Europe of Law” NGO, the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia, in cooperation with the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, are carrying out the alternative public monitoring of the Actions of the Republic of Armenia Anti-Corruption Strategy and its Implementation Action Plan for 2019-2022 to be performed in 2021.
This, among other things, includes, collecting information on the progress of implementing the Strategy’s Action Plans using qualitative and quantitative methods.
More than three dozen representatives from the monitoring team, non-governmental organizations and state structures, including the Ministry of Justice, the Competition Protection Commission, the Corruption Prevention Commission, NCEDI Foundation, the Department of Analysis and Development Programs of the Civil Service Bureau, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the Prime Minister’s Office, the State Administration Academy, the Academy of Advocates, the Anti-Corruption Committee, the Digitization Department of the HTI and several political and social organizations attended the discussion organized on 10 April.
At the first meeting in this format, the area of public awareness and anti-corruption education of the Anti-Corruption Strategy was discussed.
In this framework the topics on the development, approval and implementation of the plan of the annual public awareness campaign; the inclusion of the subject “Fundamentals of Anti-Corruption Policy” in the teaching modules of all higher educational and secondary professional educational institutions; the implementation of anti-corruption education in high schools; raising awareness about the reforms implemented in the civil service system; the implementation of trainings, including the prevention of corruption, integrity, “Human Rights”, the development of distance learning modules for civil servants, and the online broadcasting of the testing phase of competitions for filling vacant positions were discussed in this format.
