The R2G4P project, a spin-off from the SELDI initiative, aims to close the anti-corruption policy implementation and public procurement gaps across SEE, and thus amplify the impact of the planned increase in EU infrastructure support until 2025. The activities will be implemented in the framework of a Regional Good Governance Public-Private Partnership Platform (R2G4P), focusing on nine beneficiary countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia).
In order to increase the capacity of CSO partners to diagnose and tackle corruption risks, the R2G4P initiative held its first internal three-day regional training on 7-9 July 2021. The training modules were structured around the project’s key methodologies.
On 7 July 2021, Ágnes Czibik, Mihály Fazekas, Péter Horn and Bence Tóth from GTI made an overview of the most common public procurement integrity issues that countries from the region face, and provided an introduction to Opentender.eu.
Presentation by Ágnes Czibik & Dr. Mihály Fazekas, GTI
Presentation by Dr. Mihály Fazekas, GTI
Presentation by Péter Horn, GTI
Presentation by Bence Tóth, GTI
On 8 July 2021, CSD and GTI presented their approaches to state capture monitoring and assessment. CSD explained that the State Capture Assessment Diagnostics (SCAD) tool defines “state capture” as an exploitation of the power of government for private benefit in systematic and permanent manner, involving various forms of corruption and illegitimate activities. GTI added that state capture could easily be observed through a network analysis of the public procurement relations. Based on the share of corrupt buyers, suppliers and their clusters, a state could be either corruption free; corrupt without state capture; partially appropriated or fully captured.
Presentation by Dr. Todor Galev, CSD
Presentation by Dr. Alexander Gerganov, CSD (Part 1)
Presentation by Dr. Alexander Gerganov, CSD (Part 2)
Presentation by Dr. Mihály Fazekas, GTI
The last day of the training, 9 July 2021, was dedicated to the MACPI (Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation) tool. MACPI provides assessment of individual public institution’s anticorruption policies through quantitative surveys among employees, external experts and clients. It is designed as an internal management tool for the pubic body, used to identify the levels of corruption pressure over its activities and the gaps in the enforcement of its anticorruption policies.
Presentation by Dr. Todor Galev, CSD