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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 ...

Corruption Perceptions Index 2020: Latvia’s score slightly improves, but bolder reforms are needed to crack down on political corruption TI Latvia’s analysis, full text -> Transparency International has published the results of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. Latvia’s score has increased by 1, from 56 to 57, and ranks 42nd the world (together with Cyprus and Costa ...

Transparency International Latvia (Delna) has launched a new version of the website Deputāti uz Delnas. The website features interactive tools that allow users to easily explore data and information about the finances of political parties as well as Members of the Parliament’s outside interests. Data and information were collected from the Corruption Prevention and Combating ...

In 2019 and 2020, in the framework of the project “Integrity Watch Europe”, funded by the European Commission and led by the Transparency International Secretariat, Transparency International Latvia updated the popular website “Deputāti uz Delnas”. This online event aims to: Introduce the new version of deputatiuzdelnas.lv and explain its main functionalities Explain how the website was developed, ...

Transparency International Latvia and the Parliamentary Committee on Defence, Internal Affairs and Corruption Prevention of the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia in cooperation with the State Chancellery, with the support of the OGP is organising the online conference. The conference aims to discuss progress and the next steps in the development of the legal framework ...

Following years of advocacy by civil society organizations and legislative preparations by a dedicated working group of experts, Latvia adopted a comprehensive Whistleblowing  law  in 2018, that came into force on May 1st, 2019. For their collective work on these crucial protections enabling citizens witnessing  corruption, tax, health, environment and other violations observed in their work ...

On the International Anti-Corruption Day, the US Ambassador to Latvia John Carwille, the President of Latvia Egils Levits, several Latvian state officials, as well as other foreign ambassadors and Inese Tauriņa, the Director of the Transparency International Latvia, presented a joint video statement to mark the importance of cooperation in the fight against corruption. Ambassador Carwille ...

Online conference “Whistleblowing: the Next Level” took place on 5 and 6 November 2020 to review the progress of Latvia and share experiences with other countries in this area. During these two days, experts from Latvia and other countries will spoke about the results achieved during the first year after adoption of the Whistleblowing Law, ...

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 ...