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On September 9, 11, and 13, 2024, Jēkabs Kārlis Rasnačs, the project manager of Transparency International Latvia (Delna) participated in seminars titled “Public Procurement System: Transparency and Efficiency,” held in a hybrid format in the Moldovan cities of Costești, Bălți, and Cimişlia. The event was organized by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and USAID. ...

Transparency International Latvia has published the final report summarising the implementation, between 2016 and 2020, of the Integrity Pacts (IPs) to monitor procurements for the development of the tramline infrastructure in Riga. The report includes a summary of the various steps of implementation of the Integrity Pacts, with an emphasis on the impacts of the ...

EU leaders asked to toughen anti-corruption measures in the next round of financing to protect public contracts TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL’S EU CHAPTERS AND LOCAL PARTNERS CALL FOR AN OPEN AND VIBRANT PUBLIC CONTRACTING SYSTEM FOR THE EU The next seven-year European Union (EU) budget – the ‘MFF’ – and COVID-19 recovery funds are at risk of abuse unless ...

Transparency International Latvia/Delna and the Procurement Monitoring Bureau of Latvia have jointly developed and published a sample “procurement document package”.  The goals of these sample documents are to simplify public procurement by municipalities and other institutions, as defined by the Law on Public Procurement, and to promote effectiveness and integrity in public procurements. The package was ...

  On 28 February 2020, the conference “Integrity Pacts for Safeguarding EU Funds in Latvia and Europe” brought together Latvian and foreign experts from government and civil society to discuss the key takeaways from the piloting of the Integrity Pacts in Latvia and other 10 European countries and generate concrete ideas for the future of citizen engagement ...

Here comes our regular update on the progress of the project “Integrity Pacts Latvia”, covering the months between July and December 2019. Following the suspension of the Skanste Tramline project, Transparency International Latvia’s team has focused on the promotion of the Integrity Pacts at the national level, engaging state authorities and citizens on the potential ...

LIVE BROADCAST from conference “Integrity Pacts for Safeguarding EU Funds in Latvia and Europe: Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future” on the 28 February at 10.00-15.00.   The conference aims to bring together Latvian and foreign experts from government and civil society to: Discuss and assess the emerging impacts, main challenges and lessons learned from the Integrity ...

  Transparency International Latvia (Delna) invites you to a conference “Integrity Pacts for Safeguarding EU Funds in Latvia and Europe: Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future” on the 28 February at 9.30-16.00. in Hotel Pullman Riga Old Town, Jekaba iela 24, Riga. .The conference aims to bring together Latvian and foreign experts from government and civil ...

“Delnas Vasaras Skola 2019”, is the 4th annual anti-corruption and transparency summer school organised by Transparency International Latvia’s chapter. This year it took place in Cesis, Ruckas Muiža, from June 27th to 30th. Over period of four days it gathered more than 30 motivated cilvil society activists from different regions of Latvia, such as Cesis, Daugavpils, ...

A tramline project in Latvia’s capital Riga has been terminated due to suspicions of fraud, mismanagement and unacceptably high risks, information released recently by Latvia’s authorities suggests. The Central Finance and Contracting Agency of Latvia, the government authority tasked with supervision of EU-funded projects, has published its findings into Riga Satiksme, a city-owned company that ...