According to the Law on State Procurement, a contest is an alternative method of state procurement that can be used for purchasing design services. Unlike electronic tenders, the process of procurement through contests bypassed the State Pr

  From January to May of 2015 Georgian Ministries and their subordinate Legal Entities of Public Law (LEPL) have spent more than GEL 1 million on the production and airing of advertising videos on various TV stations. GEL 199,521 was spent on

  Construction of a new port has been considered in recent years in Georgia in the village of Anaklia of Zugdidi Municipality. During Mikheil Saakashvili’s presidency there was a plan  to build a new city, Lazika, on An

  On 8 July 2015 the Parliament of Georgia passed at the third hearing the draft Law “on the State Security Service” and amendments to its accompanying draft laws. Transparency International Georgia has many concerns about the

 In this brief, the Coalition’s views about the draft laws related to judicial reform are presented. In our opinion, the draft laws offer preliminary solutions to a series of issues, but some of these initiatives would benefit from mor

  It is common for cell phone users in Georgia to receive advertising SMS messages several times a day. In most cases, these messages are sent by companies offering various products and services without consent from the receiver. Messages sen

  On June 4, a draft Law on Changes to the Code of Local Self-Government and the Code of Administrative Procedure, which was prepared by MPs Gia Zhorzholiani and Erekle Tripolski, was submitted to the Parliament of Georgia. According to th

  Transparency International Georgia continues to monitor employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the so-called ODR security officers, inside various institutions. Previously, we have revealed the existence of such employees inside sev

  On May 5, Transparency International Georgia released a blog post entitled Georgia’s governors: biographies and assets in which it was noted that two current governors had filled out their asset declarations incompletely, while one of

  According to the latest survey, the public considers reporting on social issues as the primary function of journalists. The survey was conducted for Transparency International Georgia by Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) from April