Fostering Transparency Through Investigative Reporting

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Albania
April 2015- November 2015

BIRN Albania

The project includes journalistic training and mentoring, investigative reporting, and publishing on cases of public procurement fraud, conflict of interests, and corruption in Albania. The aim of this project is to enhance independent and professional investigative journalism as a mean to increase accountability, transparency, and anti-corruption mechanisms on public procurement procedures.

Summary

The aim of this project is to enhance independent and professional investigative journalism as a means to increase accountability, transparency, and anti-corruption mechanisms in public procurement procedures.

Information Sheet

Main Objective:Specific Objectives:
 
  • To enhance journalistic skills in Albania through on-the-job mentoring and regular investigative journalism training, enabling journalists to conduct complex investigative stories about corruption cases on public procurement procedures.
  • To raise the capacities of Albanian journalists to implement the new “Freedom of Information” law as a tool to support greater transparency and accountability of public institutions.
  • To enable other journalists, civil society representatives and researchers to have access to a database with documents received through “Freedom of Information” requests from public institutions.
  • To raise the capacities of journalists to understand the public procurement law in order to better report on corruption and abuse of power cases in the public procurement sector.