The project encompassed in-depth investigations on corruption in several most vulnerable areas: public procurements, the composition of the management committees of public enterprises, providing services from the public administration, construction, education, and health care. The results from the investigation were published in analytical reports regarding the level, forms, and generators of corruption. The reports received wide coverage by the Macedonian media, with a total of 108 journalistic reports. Instigated by the reports, governmental representatives announced decreasing bureaucratic procedures, legal protection of the students who reported corruption, a more vigorous fight against the construction mafia, while the findings in the report on corruption in the health care was used as evidence that corruption is the first and foremost problem that has to be solved in the health care.
Investigative reports on corruption in the Republic of Macedonia (2005-2006)
The project encompassed in-depth investigations on corruption in several most vulnerable areas: public procurements, the composition of the management committees of public enterprises, providing services from the public administration, construction, education, and health care. The results from the investigation were published in analytical reports regarding the level, forms, and generators of corruption. The reports received wide coverage by the Macedonian media, with a total of 108 journalistic reports. Instigated by the reports, governmental representatives announced decreasing bureaucratic procedures, legal protection of the students who reported corruption, a more vigorous fight against the construction mafia, while the findings in the report on corruption in the health care was used as evidence that corruption is the first and foremost problem that has to be solved in the health care.
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