Transparency Serbia
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| Abbreviation | TS |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2002 |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose | Fight against corruption |
| Headquarters | Belgrade, Serbia |
Key people | Nemanja Nenadić |
| Website | www |
Transparency Serbia (abbr. TS) is a non-profit organization based in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 2002 and granted the status of "national chapter in formation" by the Transparency International (TI) movement. Over the next four years, Transparency Serbia concentrated its efforts on advocating for the adoption and improvement of anti-corruption legislation through the use of promotional campaigns, draft amendments, comparative legal analysis of legislation. Transparency Serbia further worked to raise public awareness of anti-corruption legislation and identify implementation gaps where legislation was not being enforced. The priorities of work in that period were advocating for the adoption of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance (2004), the Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest (2004), full implementation of the Law on Financing of Political Parties (2003) and the Law on Public Procurement (2002), as well as the adoption of the National Anti-corruption Strategy (2005) and the accompanying action plan (2006).
Since October 2005, the Transparency Serbia has been a fully fledged member of the Transparency International movement. This entails participation in the implementation of the TI Global Strategy, a commitment to common goals with other national chapters and the Secretariat (based in Berlin, Germany), as well as the exchange of experiences and best practices in efforts to curb corruption. Nonetheless, Transparency Serbia is registered as a civil society organization (association of citizens) in accordance with Serbian legislation, and as such it exercises full autonomy from the rest of the movement when determining which areas and corruption issues to tackle and how best to approach them.
In 2006, Transparency Serbia opened the Advocacy and Legal Advice Center (ALAC)[1] in order to provide assistance to citizens and businesses in cases where they suspect that corruption is a barrier to the exercise of their rights.
Transparency Serbia was among the 100 Serbian companies, academic institutions and non-governmental organisations which signed up in 2007 to the UN Global Compact initiative aimed at promoting corporate responsibility.[2]
More recently, in September 2015, on the occasion of the International Right to Know Day, Transparency Serbia won the national annual award for special contribution to the promotion of the right to information in Serbia.[3]
Transparency Serbia is a civil society organization. Its internal structure includes: • an Assembly, which adopts the most important documents of organization and elect other bodies, • a Managerial Board, which is responsible for strategy and then implementing of planned activities • a Supervisory Board, with a control and oversight mandate.
The senior positions in the organization are the President (currently without president), the Executive Director, the Program Director and the Financial Director. According to report on its website,[4] Transparency Serbia is financed solely on the basis of donor contributions to projects, with funding coming mainly from international organizations and foundations, the European Union, and western governments.