SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
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SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
The Center for Civil Communications organised a second workshop on July 4 to discuss crucial measures necessary to decrease the level of corruption, this time with focus on public enterprises and institutions. Local experts and representatives of state institutions and the business community exchanged their knowledge and expressed opinions how to curb corruption in this sector, previously estimated like one of the most susceptible in Macedonia.At the workshop Vanja Mihajlova, anti-corruption expert and former member of the State Committee for Prevention of Corruption, professor from the Law faculty Borce Davitkovski and professor Ljubomir Kekenovski from the Economy Faculty presented draft - measures and their expert opinions.
SKOPJE, December 28, 2012 – Today the Centre for Civil Communications published findings from their monitoring of public procurement procedures in Macedonia covering the period from July to September 2012. Some of the key findings are: There is a continually increasing problem of annulment of larger tenders - those for procurement of goods and services costing more than 20,000 euros or for implementation of works costing more than 50,000 euros. There is an increasing trend of adopting decisions to annul such tenders mainly because the estimated value of the procurement is lower than the bids offered by the companies. Some institutions continue to disobey the rule for accurate definition of the evaluation criteria. Instead of the quality of a bid, some tenders mainly appraise the experience of the bidding companies. In the third quarter of 2012, 210 contracts amounting to 14 million euros were concluded through non-transparent negotiating procedures without publishing a call for bids. Overall, in the first nine months of 2012, the value of such contracts amounted to approximately 32 million euros. A comparative analysis of the Macedonian legislation and seven European countries indicates that no other country creates so-called ”black lists” of bidders that are banned from participating in tender processes for a given time period (1 to 5 years) for activating bank guarantees. The monitoring report is available on-line at www.ccc.org.mk. For further information please contact the Centre for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk. NOTE TO EDITORS: The USAID Civil Society Project is a two and a half-year project financed...
SKOPJE, 14 February 2013 – Today the Center for Civil Communications published findings from their monitoring of public procurement procedures that were implemented by local government institutions between April and September 2012. A problem present in almost one third of the monitored local tenders is the use of eligibility criteria that were inappropriate to the subject of the procurement, the estimated value of the tender, or the market conditions. The legal obligation to organize an e-auction for all public procurements, regardless of their value, has become more difficult to adhere to in local tenders. Hence, e-auctions took place in only 46% of the monitored procedures. Local institutions frequently do not exhibit transparency and accountability in public procurements, not only when these principles should be a reflection of good governance, but also when such conduct is stipulated by law. Tender annulment is also an issue for local level public procurements, with 15% annulled during the monitored period. However, this is considerably lower than the percentage of central level tenders that were annulled (25%) during that period. Companies that participate in tenders organized by local government institutions point to the following problems as the most frequent: the large amount of required documentation for bids, technical specifications, eligibility criteria and the evaluation process, short deadlines, and the obligatory e-auction. The report is available on-line at www.ccc.org.mk. For further information please contact the Centre for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk. You can find the report here
SKOPJE, September 18, 2012 – The Center for Civil Communications has announced today the results of the regular monitoring of public procurements in the country, for the period of April – June 2012. Among others, the following key findings have been noted: Main problems that companies face in public procurements, according to the survey, are: collection of the receivables; unclear and favorable tender documentation; and unrealistic and hardly feasible eligibility criteria. A series of weaknesses have been recorded in the state institutions’ selection of the criteria for evaluating the bids. The focus is often on the bidder rather than on the bids, undermining in that way tenders’ main goal – to obtain best value for money. Annulment of the procedures is on the rise again. 30% of the monitored procedures were annulled. Although scheduled, legally binding, e-auction was not realized in 45% of the monitored procedures. The monitoring report which includes key findings and recommendations for overcoming the detected weaknesses, as well as a survey on 220 companies on their experience with public procurements and an analysis of public procurements appeals. Download report here.
The Center for Civil Communications submitted the measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the public administration to the authorized institutions and media in the country. The measures were defined at the workshop, which took place on 24 October, and were proposed by domestic experts and representatives from the authorized institutions.The measures are mainly directed at: increasing the professionalism of the public administration; employing and promoting civil servants only on the basis of their work experience, knowledge, and accomplished results; reducing the discretion rights of the managers of state institutions for selecting employees; introducing a system of rewards and punishments for civil servants; limiting the possibility for various committees to make arbitrary decisions; clear defining, harmonizing, unifying, and publishing of all conditions and documents required for obtaining the services of the public administration, as well as making certain services automatic. The Center proposes to all relevant institutions to implement the measures in the interest of the general commitment to decreasing the corruption in the Republic of Macedonia.
flickr_albumid=[72157623090003191] Today, the Center for Civic Communications presented the fourth quarterly Report on the results of the public procurement process monitoring, which besides the regular analysis of public procurement procedures, also contains an analysis of the legal protection in the public procurement procedures. The report, inter alia, noted: Despite its legal obligation, some state institutions, including ministries, did not provide a notification for an agreement for public procurement to the Public Procurements Bureau. The number of government institutions that are not providing data to the Public Procurements Bureau on the incurred costs of 20,000 or 50,000 euros for the procurement of goods and services is increasing. The problem with the delays in reaching the decision to choose the most favorable bid is getting worse. Out of a total of 40 monitored public procurement procedures in this quarter, a decision for choosing the best offer has not been made in 13 cases (33%), and the time delay for reaching a decision in these procedures ranges from 50 to 120 days. The problem with the nullification of public procurement procedures is being mitigated. Out of a total of 40 public procurement procedures, 7 procedures have been completely or partially annulled (17.5%), leading to a certain mitigation of this problem compared to the previous quarter, when 25% of the procedures were annulled. Although increased, the usage of the electronic public procurement system in the last quarter of 2009 is still not on a satisfactory level. In 2009, only 2.5% of the procedures have been conducted through the electronic...
The Center for Civil Communications has been working on systematizing and prioritizing the measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the education, proposed at the workshop that took place on 16 January 2008. At the fifth, out of the six planned workshops, domestic experts and representatives from the authorized institutions participated in the discussion on the need to take appropriate measures for decreasing the corruption in the education.
The first Quarterly Analysis of the results from the monitoring of the implementation of the public procurement procedures in the Republic of Macedonia on central level was published on February 26, 2009. The Center for Civil Communications is analyzing the implementation of the public procurement procedures trough 4 phases in the period November 2008 – November 2009. The goal of the analysis is to assess the implementation of the public procurement procedures in the RoM in light of the new PPL and to determine if and to what extent the following basic public procurement principles have been followed and applied: transparency, competitiveness, equal treatment of the economic operators, non-discrimination, legality, efficient, effective and rational spending of the Budget (best value for the money), as well as accountability of the money spent.
SKOPJE, 15 December 2011 - Center for Civil Communications today announced a regular index of rationality for a new group of five products or services: written translation from Macedonian into English language; air-conditioners; private security services; notebook computers and GPS vehicle devices. The index includes prices of products or services purchased by 50 central and local governmental institutions.
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
More than 30 participants discussed the results of a recent Monitoring of media coverage of corruption in the country, on two workshops held in Skopje on September 30, and October 4. Besides journalists and editors from national and local media, representatives of all concerned institutions: State anticorruption commission, Association of journalists, Journalists and media workers trade union, and Broadcasting council have also participated in the workshops. The monitoring showed that the media don’t play their full role in the fight against corruption in the country, and that the media reports on corruption still lack of professionalism and basic standards of modern journalism. Among other, half of the news reports have either no source or only one source, represents only one side of the story, and did not consult those who are blamed for corruption. Corruption as a subject is treated only superficially and in an informative way, without in-depth, comprehensive and detailed research and analysis. Only 4% of the stories are investigative ones. Discussions were focused mainly on the reasons for this situation. Journalists and editors have openly spoken for everyday problems they face with regarding investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Recommendations for improving the reporting of corruption, and thereby to strengthen the role of media in fighting corruption were drafted and they will be sent to all stakeholders. In addition, journalists for nation-wide and local media will be trained in investigative journalism and reporting corruption. Strengthening the role of media in the fight against corruption is part of the project “Media and civil society...
SKOPJE, March 10, 2011 - Center for Civil Communications announced the eighth regular quarterly report on the results of the monitoring of public procurement for the period from October to December 2010. Simultaneously, the Centre announced the so-called Index of rationality in spending public money as a completely new tool that should help state institutions to achieve lower prices in public procurement and to spend public funds in a mora rational manner. The following are the key findings from the monitoring of public procurement (.pdf) in the last quarter of 2010: The criteria for qualification of firms to participate in tenders limit competition and favor certain bidders. Continued trend on poor competition in a significant part of the procedures monitored. Inappropriate elements are used to evaluate bids. In some cases, tender specifications can favor certain bidders. The value of direct agreements continues to grow. Transparency of institutions is raised. Most institutions complied with the low-stipulated deadline on taking the decision on the selection of the most favorable offer. Institutions continue the practice of not submitting detailed notifications on selection decision to companies. Trend on reduced requirements for tender documentation fees. Growing number of appeals approved by the State Commission on Public Procurement Appeals. ВThe index of rationality (.pdf) provides comparisons of prices under which different institutions have procured same products, services or works (winter maintenance of streets and roads, industrial salt, heating oil, New Year's decorations and copy paper). The significant differences in prices and the conditions under which state institutions buy same types of...
On 2 October, the Center for Civil Communications submitted proposal measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the illegal construction to the authorized institutions and media in the country. The measures were suggested and discussed at the third workshop, which was organized by the Center during the month of September.The proposed measures were mainly in the direction of: strengthening and intensifying the inspection controls; more efficient dealing with and sanctioning the problem of illegal construction, as well as increasing the risk and lack of prospects for illegal construction.
Bearing in mind the great role media play in the fight against corruption and in increasing the transparency and accountability of the public institutions, the Center for Civil Communications hopes that, through highlighting the existing forms of corruption and promoting investigative techniques, will contribute to increasing the interest of journalists and media for investigating corruption. For that purpose, the Center, in December 2007, published a manual for journalists for investigating and reporting on corruption, which points to the consequences of corruption and the role of the media in its suppression.
SKOPJE, December 21, 2010 - Center for Civil Communications today announced the seventh quarterly report (.pdf) with the results of monitoring of public procurements at central and local level in the period July-September 2010 where they note the following key findings: Economic operators can not exercise the right to inspect the documentation of the procedures for public procurement they have participated in. This incorrect application of the Law on Public Procurement has increased suspicion of the companies for misuse the public procurement. The trend of reduction of competition in public procurement procedures continues. In only 47.5% of the monitored tenders in this quarter, there where only one or two companies bidding. Annulled are 22.5% of monitored procedures. From 2008 to 2010, the number of annulled procedures has increased for 2.5 times. Part of the contracting authorities do not respect the newly established deadline for taking bid selection. Contracting authorities fail to meet the legally stipulated target of 30% e-auctions for this year. As of September, with an e-auction ended only 11.6% of the published bids. The trend of increase of the contracts without publishing notice continues. In this quarter, through direct contracts are spending 574 million (9.3 million), up 14% over the same period last year. Continued use of the element 'time of payment', which is forcing companies to offer terms for payment of invoices from public contracts up to 300 days. Based on these findings, recommendations on measures to overcome the weaknesses detected and comparative analysis of the manner in which two important issues...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Domestic experts and representatives of the institutions and business community discussed the necessary measures that need to be taken in order to decrease the corruption in the public procurements area. The workshop was organized by the Centre for Civil Communications on 3 May this year, in the NGO Info centre. This was the first of six planned workshops that are part of the project that involves suggesting measures for narrowing the corruption in Macedonia.
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Skopje, 18 October - Participants at a conference on public procurement, which was held Thursday in Skopje in organization of the Center for Civil Communications, jointly concluded that there is a need and a room for amendments to the legislation on public procurement in the country in order to reduce the abuse in the spending of public money. Basis for discussion were the findings of the monitoring of public procurement in Macedonia (.pdf) where the main weaknesses were detected in the process of procurement, such as reducing the interest of companies to participate in tenders, frequent cancellation of procedures, use of disputed items in selecting the winning bid, favoritism by defining the tender documents, etc.. The President of GRECO (Group of states against corruption within the Council of Europe), Drago Kos shared the Slovenian experience in this area and offered several measures to reduce corruption in the public procurement undertaken in other EU countries, including the insertion of an anti-corruption clause in any contract for procurement of more than 10,000 euros and an obligation for assets declaration for all persons in contracting authorities involved in public procurement. {vimeo}15951776{/vimeo} Some participants called for the prediction of punitive provisions in the Law on Public Procurement. The Director of the Bureau for Public Procurement, Mare Bogeva Micovska presented the efforts of the institution to enhance the public procurement system and the planned introduction of a special module on prevention of corruption in the trainings conducted by the Bureau. More than 60 participants attended the conference, among which representatives of all stakeholders...
Today (June 1), the Center for Civil Communications published the results from the regular public procurements monitoring in the country and the results from the survey of companies about their experience with the public procurement procedures. Presenting the Quarterly report with the results from the public procurements monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia(.pdf) for the period from January to March 2010, Mrs. Vanja Mihajlova and Nikola Tupancheski PhD stressed that there is still space for improvement of the public procurement process in the country especially in terms of more consistent abiding by the legislation by the state institutions, and they also emphasized the need to further stipulate the legal provisions to reduce the space for possible abuses in practice. The monitoring of the public procurements at a central and local level resulted with the following findings key findings: Increased use of scoring criteria for the bids which doesn’t guarantee the selection of the most favourable bid; Inadequate criteria are selected for determining the ability of companies to participate in public procurement procedures; High percentage of annulled public procurement procedures (20% of the monitored procedures); e-auction is only used in 5.5% of the public procurement procedures, which is several times less than the legal threshold of 30%; Rapidly increasing number of framework agreements concluded without specifying the ways in which contracts are awarded to firms; The legal obligation to inform the companies in detail about the reasons for selection of the most favourable bid or rejection of a certain bidder is not adhered to; The requests...
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20105
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20103
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20103
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20103
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20103
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20103
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20103
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
Trainings for journalists in investigating and reporting on public procurements, local media
07/05/20104
10 journalists from local media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. The trainings included types and procedures of public procurements stipulated in the new Law on public procurement, as well as the public procurement practices, based on the reports from monitoring of the public procurements done by the Center for Civil Communications. In addition, the journalists learnt how to use and search better the electronic system of public procurements in order to acquire necessary information for their reports. Each participant developed his/her own action plan for future investigation in public procurements based on the knowledge, skills and tips acquired during the training. Besides on their host media, the investigative news reports on public procurements will be published in the Monthly anti corruption magazine MAK of the Center for Civil Communications. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccenter/sets/72157623831287711/
The Center for Civil Communications is implementing an initiative for a greater involvement of the media into investigating and reporting the public procurement in the country, under the “Monitoring of the public procurement project”. Thus, besides the trainings for journalists from nation-wide and local media on enhancing their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements, an additional support for journalists’ investigations in this direction will be provided. Therefore, CCC is inviting all interested journalists to fill the Plan for an investigation in the public procurement which can be downloaded here, and to send it us back by email, no later than April 18, 2010. Six best proposals in total, both from national and from local media, will get a financial support to cover the expenses of the research. The awarded journalists will have to broadcast/publish their stories on their host media first. In the same time, the awarded stories will be published in CCC’s monthly anti corruption magazine MAK. For more details about this call, please call (02) 3213-513 or send us an email to center@ccc.org.mk . Contact person is Elena Ristevska.
Index of Rationality
29/03/20103
10 journalists from national media have been trained in improving their skills in investigating and reporting on public procurements in the country. http://www.flickr.com/photos/45630648@N05/sets/72157623733570374/
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24/02/20105
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
The main conclusion of the CCC’s research of the way media in the country report on corruption became part of the U.S. Department of State’s regular annual Human Rights Report in the world published on March 11, 2009. The Freedom of the Speech and Press section of the report says: The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. However, several commentaries and editorials on International Press Freedom Day (May 3) noted that pressure from political and business interests was impeding the development of a more independent press. On June 30, the Center for Civil Communications reported that the country's media lacked a professional approach towards reporting on corruption. The whole report can be found on the following link CCC’s research on the way Macedonian media reports on corruption can be found on the following link
Center for Civil Communications invites you to attend a conference on publicprocurement which will be published annual report on the results of the monitoringprocess of public procurement in Macedonia ". The conference will be held on February 22, 2010 (Monday), at the Holiday Inn (Millennium Hall 2), in Skopje in the period from 11.00 to 13.00 hrs. The conference will be attended by representatives of all institutions and organizations involved in public procurement that will present their views and opinions on the monitoring finding. The aim is to assess the conduct of the procurement process in Macedonia in light of the new law and whether and to what extent the basic principles: of public procurementtransparency, competitiveness, equal treatment of economic operators, non-legality,economical, efficient, effective and rational use of budgetary resources, efforts to get the best offer under the best conditions and accountability for money spent in public procurement. Your presence will contribute to efforts to promote this very important area. Confirm your attendance at the contact Elena Risteska of 02/3213-513 or center@ccc.org.mk
flickr_albumid=[72157623090003191] Today, the Center for Civic Communications presented the fourth quarterly Report on the results of the public procurement process monitoring, which besides the regular analysis of public procurement procedures, also contains an analysis of the legal protection in the public procurement procedures. The report, inter alia, noted: Despite its legal obligation, some state institutions, including ministries, did not provide a notification for an agreement for public procurement to the Public Procurements Bureau. The number of government institutions that are not providing data to the Public Procurements Bureau on the incurred costs of 20,000 or 50,000 euros for the procurement of goods and services is increasing. The problem with the delays in reaching the decision to choose the most favorable bid is getting worse. Out of a total of 40 monitored public procurement procedures in this quarter, a decision for choosing the best offer has not been made in 13 cases (33%), and the time delay for reaching a decision in these procedures ranges from 50 to 120 days. The problem with the nullification of public procurement procedures is being mitigated. Out of a total of 40 public procurement procedures, 7 procedures have been completely or partially annulled (17.5%), leading to a certain mitigation of this problem compared to the previous quarter, when 25% of the procedures were annulled. Although increased, the usage of the electronic public procurement system in the last quarter of 2009 is still not on a satisfactory level. In 2009, only 2.5% of the procedures have been conducted through the electronic...
flickr_albumid=[72157622903417819] Center for Civil Communications conducted training within the project "Strengthening of the role of media in the fight against corruption". In the period between 16-18.10.2009, in Ohrid, twelve journalists from national Macedonian media took part at the training for corruption research and reporting. Through interactive teaching and discussion, Sabina Fakic and German Filkov, both trainers from CGK, talked about the methods used for research areas in Macedonia that are most corrupted, phases and stages of research and how to reporting. Among other things, they spoke of where should be corruption searched, how to gather information and documents, how to establish and maintain sources. Anti-corruption expert, Vanya Mihailova and Professor of Law Faculty, Nichola Tupancheski, spoke about the role of the media in detecting and preventing corruption, types of corruption, fight against various corruption and legal state. Before completing the training, journalists discused corruption issues that should be investigated in their daily work. Research stories will be published in their home-media and on the CCC's web site in Investigative journalist's network section. This activity was supported from the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) funds through the agency of the United States for International Development (USAID).
Center for Civil Communications presented the results of the monitoring of the media reporting on corruption in Macedonia on June 30, 2009. Representative of the CCC, German Filkov, presented the results of the monitoring and led discussions on with the most relevant representatives of the Macedonian media. Besides presenting the results of the monitoring, the workshop with the editors helped to emerge common recommendations for improving the way in which media reports about this very serious problem, that will enhance their role in the fight against corruption in Macedonia.
The Center for Civil communications presented The second quarterly report based on the monitoring of the public procurements process on June 23, 2009. Center's representative Sabina Fakic made summary of the results of their work and emphasized the essential risks in conducting transparent, effective and rational public procurements process in Republic of Macedonia. Some of the findings are: high percent of invalidated procedures, subjectivity when setting the criteria for acceptable offer, procrastination until decisin, rare use of e-auction, pure arguments for the decisions, increased number of procedures with no announcement, etc. Average mark that economic operators gave to the public process enforcement is 2,93 - from 1 to 5.
The Centre for Civil Communications in collaboration with the Romanian Centre for Investigating Journalism (RCIJ) conducted the first phase of the project “Overcoming corruption: Exchange of experiences and best practices in investigative journalism in Romania and Macedonia”. In the period between 03-05.10.2008, in Ohrid, 10 journalists from national and local Macedonian media participated at the training for progressive journalist techniques in support of fight against corruption.
The first Quarterly Analysis of the results from the monitoring of the implementation of the public procurement procedures in the Republic of Macedonia on central level was published on February 26, 2009. The Center for Civil Communications is analyzing the implementation of the public procurement procedures trough 4 phases in the period November 2008 – November 2009. The goal of the analysis is to assess the implementation of the public procurement procedures in the RoM in light of the new PPL and to determine if and to what extent the following basic public procurement principles have been followed and applied: transparency, competitiveness, equal treatment of the economic operators, non-discrimination, legality, efficient, effective and rational spending of the Budget (best value for the money), as well as accountability of the money spent.
Центарот за граѓански комуникации во соработка со Романскиот центар за истражувачко новинарство од Букурешт (CRJI) ја продолжува работата на проектот „Справување со корупцијата: Размена на искуства и најдобри практики во истражувачкото новинарство меѓу Македонија и Романија”. Во почетокот на месец ноември, новинарите кои активно партиципираат во проектот и претставници на Центарот, поминаа една недела практична работа во дел од романските медиуми. Новинари кои се дел од проектот Размена на искуства и најдобри практики се Синиша Јаков Марушиќ од БИРН, Богданка Кузеска од Канал 5, Наим Вренези од телевизија Алсат, Жарко Настоски од телевизија Алфа, Натали Наскова Сотировска од Дневник, Весна Коловска од Канал 77, Даниела Трпчевска од Утрински весник, Викторија Новаковиќ од телевизија Орбис, Срѓан Стојанчов од Шпиц и Дритон Дикена од весникот Факти.
Центарот за граѓански комуникации во соработка со Романскиот центар за истражувачко новинарство од Букурешт (CRJI) ја продолжува работата на проектот „Справување со корупцијата: Размена на искуства и најдобри практики во истражувачкото новинарство меѓу Македонија и Романија”. Во почетокот на месец ноември, новинарите кои активно партиципираат во проектот и претставници на Центарот, поминаа една недела практична работа во дел од романските медиуми. Новинари кои се дел од проектот Размена на искуства и најдобри практики се Синиша Јаков Марушиќ од БИРН, Богданка Кузеска од Канал 5, Наим Вренези од телевизија Алсат, Жарко Настоски од телевизија Алфа, Натали Наскова Сотировска од Дневник, Весна Коловска од Канал 77, Даниела Трпчевска од Утрински весник, Викторија Новаковиќ од телевизија Орбис, Срѓан Стојанчов од Шпиц и Дритон Дикена од весникот Факти.
The Centre for Civil Communications in collaboration with the Romanian Centre for Investigating Journalism (RCIJ) conducted the first phase of the project “Overcoming corruption: Exchange of experiences and best practices in investigative journalism in Romania and Macedonia”. In the period between 03-05.10.2008, in Ohrid, 10 journalists from national and local Macedonian media participated at the training for progressive journalist techniques in support of fight against corruption.
The Center for Civil Communications has been working on systematizing and prioritizing the measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the education, proposed at the workshop that took place on 16 January 2008. At the fifth, out of the six planned workshops, domestic experts and representatives from the authorized institutions participated in the discussion on the need to take appropriate measures for decreasing the corruption in the education.
Bearing in mind the great role media play in the fight against corruption and in increasing the transparency and accountability of the public institutions, the Center for Civil Communications hopes that, through highlighting the existing forms of corruption and promoting investigative techniques, will contribute to increasing the interest of journalists and media for investigating corruption. For that purpose, the Center, in December 2007, published a manual for journalists for investigating and reporting on corruption, which points to the consequences of corruption and the role of the media in its suppression.
The Center for Civil Communications submitted the measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the public administration to the authorized institutions and media in the country. The measures were defined at the workshop, which took place on 24 October, and were proposed by domestic experts and representatives from the authorized institutions.The measures are mainly directed at: increasing the professionalism of the public administration; employing and promoting civil servants only on the basis of their work experience, knowledge, and accomplished results; reducing the discretion rights of the managers of state institutions for selecting employees; introducing a system of rewards and punishments for civil servants; limiting the possibility for various committees to make arbitrary decisions; clear defining, harmonizing, unifying, and publishing of all conditions and documents required for obtaining the services of the public administration, as well as making certain services automatic. The Center proposes to all relevant institutions to implement the measures in the interest of the general commitment to decreasing the corruption in the Republic of Macedonia.
On 2 October, the Center for Civil Communications submitted proposal measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the illegal construction to the authorized institutions and media in the country. The measures were suggested and discussed at the third workshop, which was organized by the Center during the month of September.The proposed measures were mainly in the direction of: strengthening and intensifying the inspection controls; more efficient dealing with and sanctioning the problem of illegal construction, as well as increasing the risk and lack of prospects for illegal construction.
Announced the measures for narrowing the corruption in public enterprises and institutions
13/07/20086
Center for Civil Communications announced recommendations for undertaking measures for narrowing the corruption in public enterprises and institutions on July 23. The necessity of undertaking the proposed measures stems from the established wide room for corruption in public enterprises and institutions, enabled by the poor regulation in this area and the politization of these institutions.All this results in low efficiency and losses in the work of the public enterprises and institutions, as well as in a decrease of the quality of services they provide to the citizens and the business sector. Hence, the proposed measures are mainly in direction of stipulating more detailed criteria for selecting and appointing members in the governing bodies/ managing boards of the public enterprises
The Center for Civil Communications organised a second workshop on July 4 to discuss crucial measures necessary to decrease the level of corruption, this time with focus on public enterprises and institutions. Local experts and representatives of state institutions and the business community exchanged their knowledge and expressed opinions how to curb corruption in this sector, previously estimated like one of the most susceptible in Macedonia.At the workshop Vanja Mihajlova, anti-corruption expert and former member of the State Committee for Prevention of Corruption, professor from the Law faculty Borce Davitkovski and professor Ljubomir Kekenovski from the Economy Faculty presented draft - measures and their expert opinions.
Domestic experts and representatives of the institutions and business community discussed the necessary measures that need to be taken in order to decrease the corruption in the public procurements area. The workshop was organized by the Centre for Civil Communications on 3 May this year, in the NGO Info centre. This was the first of six planned workshops that are part of the project that involves suggesting measures for narrowing the corruption in Macedonia.
SKOPJE, August 30, 2013 – Today, the Centre for Civil Communications published the monitoring results for public procurements implemented in Macedonia in the period January-March 2013. Key findings include: Macedonia is among a handful of countries in the world whose Law on Public Procurement does not stipulate sanctions for violations made to legal provisions in effect, despite numerous cases of violations identified in the practice. This conclusion is based on the comparison of Macedonian legislation with relevant laws adopted and implemented in 8 European countries. From the monitored sample, every fourth public procurement contract was signed in a tender procedure with only one bidding company. With the lack of competition among companies, there are no guarantees that public funds are spent for quality goods and services, and are offered at favorable competitive prices. Companies are denied the right to demonstrate past performance acquired through joint ventures. According to the State Commission for Public Procurement Appeals’ Assessment, companies may enter into joint ventures in order to demonstrate relevant capacity for contract performance, but not for the purpose of demonstrating past performance. This implies another risk of high concentration of public procurement performance among a small group of big companies. Tender annulments are exceptionally high in number and account for 26.6%. In the first quarter of 2013, funds in the amount of 11 million Euros were contracted through negotiation without a prior announcement of call for bids. This monitoring report is available here. For further information, please contact the Centre for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or...
The Center for Civil Communications defined several measures that need to be taken in order to narrow the room for corruption in the public procurements realm in Macedonia through a series of activities that were carried out from 2005 to 2007. The measures were sent to all relevant institutions in the country and they are expected to take them into consideration in terms of the generally expressed commitment for narrowing the corruption in Macedonia. Apart from the public procurements, in the following period, CCC will suggest measures for narrowing the corruption in other most vulnerable sectors as well.