1. Advocacy and Legal Advice Center
Presentation of 7-th Quarterly report

2. Anti-corruption hotlines:
Baku 088  or/either (12)
Ganja 088  or/either (22)
Lenkoran 088  or/either (171)
Guba or/either (169) and
Sheki 088  or/either (177) and

3. Advocacy and Legal Advice Center project’s objective:
To provide citizens with the means to become actively involved in the fight against corruption in their societies

4. ALAC’s renders following activities to achieve project objectives:
Provide the citizens with an effective instrument for combating corruption in their everyday lives;.
Provide citizens encountered with cases of corruption in the public administration system with free legal advice;
Ensure regular monitoring of the level of corruption in the country;
To inform citizens of their civil rights in a simple and understandable format;
Raise citizen’s awareness of their rights and possibilities to take actions against corruption;
Opens a dialogue with the national institutions to support the establishment of appropriate mechanisms in order to systemize and organize fight against corruption;
Monitor the work of responsible public institutions during processing of corruption cases

5. The ALACs implementation mechanisms
Project has 3 main implementation pillars:
Legal Advice
Education and information
Advocacy

6. ALAC pillars implemented by Transparency Azerbaijan:
Legal Advice
Education and information
Advocacy
Capacity Building: support is provided to state authorities to strengthen their capacity to process complaints
Public outreach campaign through mobile trainings and seminars

7. Legal Advice
Legal advice is the activity by which he/she is given help on how to use efficiently the legal procedures while filing a corruption related complaint

8. Information and education
The anti-corruption education activity refers to the efforts through which the project team provides education and information to help citizens to act and react on corruption cases equipped with knowledge.

9. Advocacy
Advocacy builds upon the results of both legal advice and education/information activities, in order to influence national policies, anti-corruption legislation and institutional practices towards a more efficient discouragement, prevention and punishment of acts of corruption.

10. Capacity Building of Public Institutions
Project team supports public authorities in their efforts to establish and operate anti-corruption hotlines, working groups and etc.

11. Public outreach campaigns through mobile trainings and seminars
Project team with the support of center’s volunteers runs anti-corruption mobile workshops for various targeted groups with a special focus on rural population and provides onsite free legal advice

12. Project target group
Project provides free legal advice for victims and witness of corruption and acts towards prevention of corruption practices against citizens

13. Dynamics of complaints (project life)

20. Romania Macedonia B&H ALAC 1st year ALAC 1,283 251 3,519* 1420
Project statistics for 1st year of implementation
Romania
Macedonia
B&H
ALAC 1st
year
ALAC
Total Number of Contacts (by phone/mail/ /in person)
1,283
251
3,519*
1420
3142
First Refusal Rate (initial contacts not pursued)
690 (54%) 26
(10%)
1,782
(51%)
794 (44%)
1249 (39%)
Cases Pursued/Referred (number of complaints investigated and referred by ALAC to relevant authority)
184 (14%) 93
(77%)
402
(22%)*
425 (30%)
682
(21%)
Cases Completed (cases concluded, successfully or other-wise, in accordance with formal complaint resolution procedures)
20 (11%)** 11
(6%) 76
(19%)
210 (14%)
361
(11%)

26. ALAC success cases
Prosecutor’s Office started a legal case against Jeyran-Batan municipality.
A citizen complained that employees of the municipality of Jeyranbatan district illegally sell land plots for a bribe by means of falsifying official documents. ALAC persistence resulted in an inspection by the Department of Municipalities under Ministry of Justice. The Ministry’ audit revealed violations and materials have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office. A legal case was raised and investigation by Absheron District Prosecutor’s is under way.

27. ALAC success cases
Prosecutor’s Office started a legal case against Yasamal Judicial Executors.
A citizen complained that Yasamal Judicial Executors abused their powers - assaulted her and threw her out of her apartment by application physical force two days before the ruling of the first instance court came into power. The citizen used the time slot to submit an appeal with the Court of Appeal, thus having suspended the initial court ruling. However, judicial executors prevent her from reinstating her rights for the apartment as of date of this report. According to the letter from Deputy Chief Prosecutor, the investigation is currently under way.