Globe International, a Mongolian NGO has completed the four-month project “Curbing corruption through better access to information” under the 20,000 USD grant awarded by the Embassy of Great Britain and North Ireland in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.  The project ran from November 15, 2008 to March 15, 2009 and it was aimed at curbing corruption through better access to information held by public institutions and promoting transparent and accountable governance.

The objectives of the project were to advocate and lobby legislation on freedom of information and new state secrecy law, and engage civil society to the campaigning.

We anticipate that the Parliament will pass the Law on the Right to Access Information and new State Secrecy Law during the period of their power until 2012.

During the project period, we formed Civil Society Coalition consisted from 10 NGOs and we held five CSC meetings to coordinate our events and advocacy activities. The project organized 9 events including Civil Society Coalition meetings, round table, training and Opinion Exchange Meeting and directly involved 121 individuals to the last three events.

The project cooperated with the Office of the Mongolian Parliament, the Office of the National Human Rights Programme, Anti-Corruption Agency and the Asia Foundation provided the partial funding for the local travels of the Speakers of the local parliaments from 19 aimags

As results of our activities, we have established the Parliament Group to provide the inside lobbying and now the number of the law initiators reached from 4 to 13 MPs. The project activities involved 34% of the Parliamentarians.

The project fully achieved its planned results and we are committed to continue our works on advocacy and lobbying the FOI law, and public awareness development and public education on access to information issues.