Links 

This section of the ACP website provides links to organizations that are involved in our project in Sri Lanka, or that have useful information regarding anti-corruption issues.

Corruption Watch (open in new window)
A project of the Free Media Movement and the International Federation of Journalists. A website promoting freedom of information that will publish all material produced by journalists currently undergoing investigative journalism training. This website will be a resource for investigative journalists containing toolkits, training manuals, and a calendar of training activities.
Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia (open in new window)
The Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia is a significant entrance way to information about combating corruption. It offers primary materials and direct links to major information sources for anti-corruption practitioners and analysts engaged in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The Gateway serves as an easily accessible repository of anti-corruption project documentation, legislation, regional and international agreements, news, survey results, reports, and research. By sharing this information widely, it is hoped that new and productive initiatives will be generated to reduce corruption in these regions.
Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies (open in new window)
The Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies (ACN) is a regional anti-corruption initiative established in 1998 by national governments, civil society organizations, and international donor agencies to promote knowledge sharing, donor co-ordination and policy dialogue in the transition economies in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. The main objective of the ACN is to assist participating countries to strengthen their capacity to tackle anti-corruption reform and to move closer to international standards.
Asian Development Bank, Anti-Corruption site (open in new window)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is vigorously addressing the problem of corruption in its own assistance programs and projects, and is supporting governance and accountability measures in its financed activities. The ADB’s Integrity web page provides information on this topic, and links to other relevant pages.
ADB/OEDC Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific (open in new window)
More than 25 countries of the region (including Sri Lanka) have committed to act against corruption within the framework of the ADB OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative. The Initiative is jointly managed by the OECD and the ADB, and supports efforts to build up effective and sustainable anti-corruption mechanisms through policy dialogue, policy analysis, capacity building and donor coordination. The members have developed an Anti-Corruption Action Plan for Asia and the Pacific and work together towards its implementation
ARD Inc. (open in new window)
ARD is a US-based consulting company that has been selected by USAID to undertake the Sri Lanka Anti-Corruption Program (ACP). Through the ACP, ARD will design and implement activities aimed at limiting opportunities for corruption, increasing transparency, improving oversight, establishing effective sanctions, and realigning official incentives to public ends. The ACP will also provide technical assistance and small grants to strengthen civil society organizations, advocacy, monitoring, and investigative journalism.
Auditor General’s Department of Sri Lanka (open in new window)
The Auditor General’s Department (AGD) promotes public accountability by carrying out audits and reporting to Parliament on a variety of public agencies and authorities. The scope of activities subject to audit includes the accounts of all departments of the Government, Provincial Councils, Local Authorities and Public Corporations and of any business or other undertakings vested in the Government under any written law. The AGD’s activities and reports enable Parliament to exercise control over public finance, and to enhance public accountability in Sri Lanka.
Centre for Policy Alternatives (open in new window)
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) encourages public policy debate on a variety of issues, including anti-corruption. Focusing primarily on issues of governance and conflict resolution, CPA is committed to program of research and advocacy through which public policy is critiqued, alternatives identified and disseminated. CPA is an independent, non-partisan organization which receives funds from international and bilateral funding agencies and foundations.
Commission for Investigation of Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (open in new window)
Sri Lanka’s Bribery Commission carries out three main functions: investigation of allegations contained in complaints filed with the Commission; prosecution of offenders through legal actions instituted in appropriate Courts; and preparing and submitting reports to the Parliament through the President.
Freedominfo.org (open in new window)
Freedominfo.org is a one-stop portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the world. It contains crucial information on freedom of information laws and how they were drafted and implemented, including how various provisions have worked in practice. freedominfo.org is a virtual network that links these movements as they struggle for greater openness. It is the online institutional memory of freedom of information campaigns throughout the world.
Free Media Movement (open in new window)
The Free Media Movement (FMM) aims to ensure that the print medium in Sri Lanka is free and responsible, and sensitive to the needs and expectations of its readers, while maintaining the highest international standard of journalism. FMM members have undertaken numerous investigative reporting activities dealing with corruption and related problems.
Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative (open in new window)
The Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative (SPAI) gives impetus to the fight against corruption by building upon existing actions through better co-ordination of all efforts and by relying on eliciting high-level political commitment. Its precise objective is to support countries Southeast Europe to adopt effective legislation, build proper institutions and develop appropriate civil society organizations and practices needed for a sustained fight against corruption.
Transparency International (open in new window)
Transparency International (TI) is a global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption. TI brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption. The TI website contains a wealth of information and tools to aid in this struggle. The Sri Lanka Chapter of TI maintains a website at: www.tisrilanka.org
United Nations Convention Against Corruption (open in new window)
The United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), of which Sri Lanka is a signatory, gives the global community the opportunity to develop a common language about corruption and a coherent implementation strategy, and to begin establishing an effective set of benchmarks for measuring performance. The Global Program against Corruption (GPAC) is a catalyst and a resource to help countries effectively implement the provision of the UN Convention against Corruption.
United Nations, Office of Drugs and Crime, Anti-Corruption site (open in new window)
The primary goal of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of the UN’s Global Programme against Corruption (GPAC) is to provide practical assistance and build technical capacity to Member States in the development of anti-corruption policies and institutions.
US Agency for International Development, Anti-Corruption Site (open in new window)
USAID has developed various programs for fighting corruption, often in response to local problems and specific windows of opportunity within a region or country. These programs are described at the website, and include: increased public awareness of corruption issues through media and civic education; involvement and participation of citizens and civil society in oversight functions; efforts to promote a free and independent media and improve the quality of investigative reporting; support for transparent and accountable local government; fiscal and tax reforms; procurement reform; financial management, internal controls and audit capacity development; support for Supreme Audit Institutions; banking regulation; strategies to prevent money laundering; and numerous initiatives in support of rule of law principles and practices.
The Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (open in new window)
The Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre is a web based resource centre established to present the Utstein Group’s thinking and activities in the field of anti-corruption and to share lessons and experiences with the outside world. The resource center is operated by the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) of Norway. Transparency International is an associate partner in the development of the resource center.
World Bank, Anti-Corruption Site (open in new window)
The World Bank has identified corruption as among the greatest obstacles to economic and social development.  The Bank’s anti-corruption website presents an anti-corruption strategy that builds on five key elements:
  1. Increasing Political Accountability
  2. Strengthening Civil Society Participation
  3. Creating a Competitive Private Sector
  4. Institutional Restraints on Power
  5. Improving Public Sector Management
World Bank Institute, Anti-Corruption Site (open in new window)
The World Bank Institute (WBI), in collaboration with many units in the World Bank Group, supports countries in improving governance and controlling corruption. WBI conducts and publishes empirical diagnostic surveys, analytical studies, prepares learning program materials, and maintains a comprehensive governance databank.