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Transparency and Accountability in Legislative and Governmental Institutions Corporate Governance Political Finance Access to Information Links to Other Resources 
Interview with Ernesto Villanueva, president of the Steering Committee of Libertad de Información-México A.C., and participant in the World Movement World Movement Participants Database - Search for more information about groups working on transparency and accountability. |
Projects and organizations, listed by region and country, are presented as illustrative examples that democracy activists, practitioners, and educators might consider as they develop their own initiatives. Global
International Foundation for Election Systems - Global
www.ifes.org
Contact: Jeff Fischer, jeff@ifes.org
The International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)' Money & Politics Program is a global initiative to promote transparency, accountability, and enforcement in political finance worldwide. With a focus on disclosure, IFES identifies and targets the needs of each country separately and works together with local partners to apply internationally accepted standards and best practices. Recognizing that complete, detailed, and public disclosure is the cornerstone of any successful political finance system, IFES addresses the unique needs of each country with technical assistance to promote open disclosure through transparency provisions in legislation and procedures, public information software and materials, and training and education. IFES works directly with political parties, candidates, governmental officials, judges, the media, NGOs, and academics to help them better understand and use the available information in their campaigns, journalistic investigations, oversight functions, research and choices at the polls. Encouraging these groups to work together to share information and bring the important issues of political finance to the forefront of the political debate, IFES promotes further reform in the development, application, and enforcement of legislation. IFES also helps develop the Money & Politics Database, which is an instrument for promoting complete, detailed, and public disclosure of financial information. An example of the database can be found on the Web site of the Central Election Commission of Lithuania (www.vrk.lt/pip/pip_e.htm).
Asia - Pacific
Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats - Asia Regional
www.cald.org
The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) is a regional group of political parties, seeking to strengthen and support the efforts of political parties to combat political and electoral corruption in Asia. The purpose of CALD programs is to identify the best practices for political parties in combating corruption and promoting effective anti-corruption tools that strengthen integrity efforts within political parties. The Council conducts comparative research exploring political party experiences with anti-corruption initiatives in Asia and globally. It also organizes regional workshops for democratic political party leaders and reformers on effective strategies for political parties to reduce corruption in politics.
Central and Eastern Europe
Alliance for Support of Fair Play - Slovakia
www.fair-play.sk
Contact: Zuzana Wienk, zuzana@fair-play.sk
The Alliance for Support of Fair Play is a nongovernmental organization based in Slovakia that monitors political party finance in the country and promotes transparency in party financing. It has developed and maintains databases of information about parties' financial status, donors, and internal structures. It also gathers and analyzes information about financial supports that parties receive from the government. The Alliance works with journalists who, based on the databases, investigate cases of misuse of public funds by a political party. It also drafts party finance legislation, which aims to promote transparency of party financing by introducing an effective public control mechanism.
About "What's Being Done On . . . "
For three months at a time, we highlight the activities of various organizations in different global regions, and links to important resources, that are focused on a particular theme or area of democracy work. Each new theme is announced via DemocracyNews, and the information from the previous installment is placed in the archives below. We hope to receive and post information about the work you or others may be doing that is focused on these issues. Send information via e-mail to the or by fax to (202) 378-9890.
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