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Sri Lanka End-of-Term Report 2016-2018

Sri Lanka’s first action plan covered a broad range of thematic areas including gender, anti-corruption, and access to information. While implementation saw no significant progress made from the midterm assessment, enacting Right to Information (RTI) legislation had a major effect…

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Sri Lanka – Citizens Use the RTI Law to Retrieve Government Compensation

After decades of failed initiatives to promote the right to information, Sri Lanka finally enacted its Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2016. The law allows Sri Lankans to scrutinize their government more closely...

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South Cotabato, Philippines – Citizen Monitoring of Public Infrastructure Projects

Inefficiencies in South Cotabato's procurement process led to delayed completion or hold up on implementation of 95 percent of planned infrastructure projects in 2017. A lack of publicly accessible information on the real-time status of ...

Georgia End-of-Term IRM Report – For Public Comment

In 2019, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the end of term report for Georgia's third action plan. The report covers the full action plan implementation period of July 2016 to July 2018. In Georgia, the IRM researchers Lasha Gogidze,…

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