The mayor's office is showing little ambition to make its administration costs, spending on implemented projects and details on contracts with companies it has hired public. In the past, mayor Gigi Ugulava and his senior staff have claimed they we

An international advertising campaign recently launched by the government of Georgia has claimed that Georgia was "first worldwide in progress to combat corruption" and wrongly attributed this assessment to Transparency International (TI). TI neve

One of the first acts of the Saakashvili government in February 2004 was to introduce plea bargaining into Georgia’s legal system. A plea bargain is, quite simply, "an agreement [between the prosecutor and the defendant] that, if an accused person sa

 Tbilisi, December 22, 2008 – TI Georgia welcomes the step taken by the Ministry of Finance by publishing the Donor Support Matrix on its official website today. This matrix contains information on the distribution of international financi

This report provides a brief overview of the commitments made by international NGOs active in Georgia to be transparent and accountable towards the people they serve. The aim of the report is to alert managers of relief and development organization

This paper lays out some issues of concern about Georgians displaced in the wake of the August 2008 conflict. Of nearly 130,000 people who fled their homes to other parts of Georgia during the summer, around 25,000 are not expected to be able to retu

38 countries and 15 international institutions pledged approximately USD 4.55 billion in aid to Georgia following the August war in 2008 – roughly USD 1,000 for every inhabitant of Georgia. 95 percent of the aid was pledged by only 12 donors. TI Geor