Martin, Slovakia and Craiova, Romania win the 2011 United Nations Public Service Award for North America and Europe in the category “Preventing and Combating Corruption in the Public Service”. Both local governments applied the novel strategic anticorruption approach, promoted by FPDL in CEE/SEE countries with LGI/OSI support.
The program “A City without Corruption, a City with Future,” organized by Partners Romania together with the Romanian municipality of Craiova, recently won the first prize in the 2010 Civil Servants Agency Annual Competition in the category “Strengthening public service integrity, transparency and accountability.” The project aimed to improve accountability and combat corruption on the level of local government and was selected from over 30 different initiatives from across Romania, showing the impact of Partners’ work in the country.
by Raymond Shonholtz. This paper was presented at the United Nations Development Program Conference, Inter-Regional Forum on Coping with Crisis and Conflicts, Bucharest, Romania, April 2-4, 2001.