Integrity Star

Globe International is starting two-month project to look at the political will of the MPs to combat corruption through using anti-corruption legislative scorecard as monitoring tool. The proposed project is closely linked to the Asia Foundation’s “Integrity Star” program with purpose to increase parliament transparency on voting, especially on laws directly or indirectly related to the anti-corruption, responsibility mechanism, justice and accountability.

Corruption is corrosive to democracy and a threat to development. It damages economic growth, has a major impact on a country's development.  Combating corruption requires compound and complex actions and the role of civil society is highly important.

Article 3 of the Mongolian Constitution (1992) says: "Power of the State is vested in people of Mongolia. Citizens shall have rights to direct participation in state affair trough their elected representatives”. Public oversight in one hand and political will and commitment of the elected Parliamentarians on other side are essential elements of creation corruption free environment. 

The Mongolian Parliament showed it is commitment to combat corruption by passing the Anti-corruption law and establishment of the Anti-corruption Agency, but the practical actions are not sufficient as desired.

Goal of the proposed project is to raise public awareness on political will of parliamentarians on anti-corruption legislation.

Project Objectives are:
- To review the laws and other legal documents contributing to corruption free environment
- To monitor the voting of the elected public representatives on the ant-corruption legislation and indentify the committed MPs
- Inform the public in their representatives’ actions and commitment to make their voters’ lives better through eliminating corruption

Project Results:
- List of anti-corruption legislation passed by the parliament available and publicized
- Political will and commitment of the elected representatives evaluated through anti-corruption legislative scorecard and publicized
- The public informed in their representatives practical actions and enabled to compare it with their promises and speeches
- Report available and reached the public through media and other information distribution tools