In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Regional Anti-corruption Initiative, alike other international organizations, continues to undertake preventative measures against the COVID-19 outbreak, in line with guidance from the authorities of the host country. The RAI Secretariat in Sarajevo has asked staff to work from home, cancelled all duty travel and postponed planned […]

RAI Secretariat published vacancies for the project team of “Breaking the Silence: Enhancing the whistleblowing policies and culture in Western Balkans and Moldova” project. Vacancies for Project Officer and Finance and Administration Assistant are open until April 8, 2020 (23.59 CET). For more information, please follow the link.

Note: The event is postponed due to COVID-19 panmdemic. Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative proudly announces the signing Ceremony of the International Treaty on Exchange of Data for the Verification of Asset Declaration, which will take place at the Palais Niederösterreich in Vienna, Austria on March 24th, 2020. The Signing Ceremony will be co-hosted by the Regional […]

On 10-11 February 2020, the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Albanian OSCE Chairmanship 2020, in coordination with OSCE field operations from South East Europe, organised a regional conference discussing measures, policies and best practices in the fight against corruption, titled “Preventive measures and enforcing the law: building resilience to corruption in South East Europe”. […]

Delegation of the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) Secretariat, composed of Mr. Vladan Joksimovic – Head of RAI Secretariat and Ms. Desislava Gotskova – Project Manager of the Regional Anti-Corruption Project met with Mr. Sotir Tsatsarov – Head of the Bulgarian Commission for Anti-corruption and Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CAIAF) and Ms, Sylvia Kadreva – Member of […]

Delegation of the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) Secretariat, composed of Mr. Vladan Joksimovic – Head of Secretariat and Ms. Desislava Gotskova – Project Manager of the Regional Anti-Corruption Project participated at the Berlin Process Security Commitments Steering Group meeting held in Sofia, January 28 and 29, 2020. Mr. Vladan Joksimovic gave a presentation of the […]

Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index (hereinafter CPI), Transparency International’s flagship research product, has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption. The index offers an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries and territories from all over the globe. The 2019 CPI draws on 13 surveys […]

Within the framework of the regional project “Strengthening the Anti-Corruption in the South East Europe through Improving Asset Seizure Measures”, implemented by RAI Secretariat and AIRE Center, the Project Manager Ms. Desislava Gotskova and the Project National Coordinator for Kosovo* Ms. Ganimete Ismajli had meetings with Mr. Aleksander Lumezi, Chief State Prosecutor, Mr. Skender Cocaj, […]

Moldovan oligarch and former head of the Moldova’s Democratic Party (PDM) Vlad Plahotniuc has been banned from entering the United States “due to his involvement in significant corruption,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement on January 13. “The thief of the century” Moldovan anti-corruption prosecutors have charged Plahotniuc, who fled the country in […]

RAI Secretariat is starting a new Regional Project on whistleblowing! It’s titled: Breaking the Silence: Enhancing the whistleblowing policies and culture in Western Balkans and Moldova. We will start with implementation in April 2020. What shall we do: The engagement with the legislators and selected public institutions at looking how whistleblowing can be encouraged by […]