Projects

School youth for a more participative local municipality

The aim of the project is to raise awareness about democracy, corruption and empower youth through Participatory Budgeting (PB) to have a say in democratic processes and be an active citizen. With this project we hope to further empower young people, giving them an opportunity to extend their ideas

Empowering youth to have a say through participatory budgeting in schools

The aim of the project is to raise awareness about democracy, corruption and empower youth through Participatory Budgeting (PB) to have a say in democratic processes and be an active citizen. In order to do that, TI Estonia and Estonian Cooperation Assembly will implement PB in 8 schools all over

Creating business plan for Business Integrity Forum

As a result of the project, a business plan has been created, which is the basis of the future Business Integrity Forum strategy and which allows the association to earn its own revenue. The association, so far, is mainly funded through projects. Project-based funding, however, hinders long-term

Integrity Watch 3.0

This Integrity Watch 3.0 (IW 3.0) iteration repurposes data from visualisation to risk-management. Since 2014, IW is the leading online hub that monitors integrity in political decision making across Europe. See the platform here: https://www.integritywatch.eu/ IW collects and harmonises hard-to

Digital Anti-Corruption Conference (DACC)

DIGITAL ANTI-CORRUPTION CONFERENCE: In Search of Applicable Innovations Scene Setting Online Discussions 7 December 2021 10 AM – 5.30 PM (GMT+2)Organised by: Anti-Corruption Headquarters NGO (Kyiv, Ukraine) & Transparency International Estonia (Tallinn, Estonia) The IT sector in the Central Eastern

Building a Nordic Open Data Ecosystem

The overarching goal of the project is to foster Nordic-Baltic cooperation in the implementation of common standards in the disclosure of essential anti-corruption data and in the development digital tools enabling citizens and journalists to prevent and detect corruption. To achieve this goal, the

Participatory budgeting in Estonian schools

In Estonia, participatory budgeting has been implemented for many years, for example in Tartu. A small part of the budget is set aside and ideas for the use of the budget can be submitted by everyone. The various concepts will eventually be put to the vote, giving the people in the town the

Supporting whistleblowers through the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre

Through this initiative, Transparency International Estonia will create the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC) to provide free legal advice using safe channels and the help of pro bono law firms to people who are considering reporting or have experienced retaliation due to reporting. Without

Anti-corruption programme for the Moldovan public sector

The aim of the project is to exchange anti-corruption knowhow and expertise between the Estonian and Moldovan experts, improve the anti-corruption capacity of the Moldovan public sector and improve the anti-corruption cooperation between the two countries. During the project, Estonian and Moldovan

Tailor-made whistleblowing mechanism for the public sector

The aim of the project is to develop a mechanism for reporting wrongdoing which will function appropriately in the Estonian public sector. During the project, specific recommendations and proposals are made to the partner from the public sector in order to develop, implement and use the mechanism in

Public Ethics Benchmarking

A successful democract is based on the public's trust, the public in turn trusts a governance based on strong ethical principles. The methodology and tools for this project have been developed by the Council of Europe and such projects have previously been carried out in Spain, Romania, Moldova and

Opener: discovering corruption risks with the help of open data

The aim of the project is to test if Estonian open data is sufficient to detect corruption risks. During the project a test version of an online platform will be developed which will correlate data from different open sources, creates and detects relevant connections which otherwise would be missed