/ Major, Problems and Recommendations / This report by Transparency International Georgia gives user-friendly summaries of the key findings and recommendations provided by the State Audit Office of Georgia (SAO) in its audit reports.

  The Parliament of Georgia is currently discussing the 2015 draft state budget. Here, we examine the draft budget’s priorities as well as planned income and spending. In the present analysis, attention is drawn to the problems in the f

  At the end of November, 2014, the Parliament adopted amendments known as the Beselia-Popkhadze-Sesiashvili legislative package. According to the opinion of the civil society, these amendments drastically worsen the legislation on human righ

 TI Georgia has found that the advertising services for the Government of Georgia's Two Years of Changes report cost approximately GEL 830,000. The Government's Reserve Fund granted money to the State Chancellery twice to cover these expenses –

  The 28 November 2014 amendment to the Local Self-Government Code resulted in an adjustment of the formula to determine the maximum number of employees per self-governing public agency. The previous formula set the total number of local gove

  Transparency International Georgia continues to investigate the practice of the appointments of security officers, the so-called ODRs (“ОДР” – офицер действующего резерва; lit. Active Reserve Officers) - in the state insti

  The City Council of the self-governing community Zugdidi Municipality has adopted the resolution on setting the procedure of giving bonuses to civil servants, based on recommendations proposed by Transparency International Georgia. Accor