Promoting Anti-Corruption Education (LT0014)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Lithuania, Second Action Plan for 2014-16
Action Plan Cycle: 2014
Status: Inactive
Institutions
Lead Institution: Ministries
Support Institution(s): NA
Policy Areas
Anti-Corruption, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Capacity Building, Health, Public Participation, Public Service DeliveryIRM Review
IRM Report: Lithuania End-of-Term Report 2014-2016, Lithuania Progress Report 2014-2015, Lithuania IRM Progress Report 2014-2015
Starred: No
Early Results: Did Not Change
Design i
Verifiable: No
Relevant to OGP Values: Access to Information , Public Accountability
Implementation i
Description
Increased public intolerance to corruption, and public involvement in anticorruption has been encouraged; anticorruption education programmes have been developed and implemented. Delining share of population thinking corruption is widespread according to Special Eurobarometer (in 2014 – 95 %, in 2015 – 94%, 2016 – 93%). Growing Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (in 2013 – 57, in 2014 – 58, in 2015 – 59, in 2016 - 60). Anti-corruption initiative “Clean hands” has been carried across health institutions in Lithuania (Ministry of Health, Q2/2014).
IRM End of Term Status Summary
Commitment 8. Promoting Anti-Corruption Education
Commitment Text:
Initiative 4: corruption prevention, transparency promotion
Area: To reduce the scale of corruption
Action (milestone): to promote anti-corruption education by employing mass media and other means.
Expected outcome:
- Increased public intolerance to corruption, and public involvement in anti-corruption has been encouraged; anticorruption education programmes have been developed and implemented.
- Delining share of population thinking corruption is widespread according to Special Eurobarometer (in 2014 – 95 %, in 2015 – 94%, 2016 – 93%).
- Growing Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (in 2013 – 57, in 2014 – 58, in 2015 – 59, in 2016 - 60).
- Anti-corruption initiative “Clean hands” has been carried across health institutions in Lithuania (Ministry of Health, Q2/2014).
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Responsible institution: Ministries
Supporting institutions: Not specified
Start date: 2014..................... ...................... End date: 2016
Commitment aim:
This commitment aims to promote anti-corruption education through the use of media and the creation of anti-corruption education programmes. This commitment comes in a context where 95 percent of Lithuanians believe that corruption is widespread.[Note 32: EC Eurobarometer survey report 2014: https://www.stt.lt/documents/es_ataskaita_2014/Lietuva_2014.pdf.]
Status
Midterm: Substantial
Throughout the first year of the action plan, numerous anti-corruption education campaign outputs were visible in the mass media. The Special Investigation Service and the Ministry of Education and Science had been developing anti-corruption education programmes well before this action plan came into effect. Anti-corruption NGOs interviewed by the IRM researcher confirmed the existence of these programmes.
The milestone to carry out the Clean Hands initiative was completed. Since the Ministry of Health did not specify the number of public health institutions that should carry the Clean Hands initiative, the IRM researcher has presumed that the initiative concerns the 21 health care institutions that are under the ministry’s jurisdiction. This one time initiative aimed to rank 21 health care institutions according to their anti-corruption index. The index includes information about the amount of information available to patients and an anonymous survey of staff and patients, among others. The Ministry of Health did not make the results of the survey publically available.
End of term: Substantial
The IRM researcher could not identify any further activities conducted towards completion of the anti-corruption programme.
Did it open government?
Access to information: Did not change
Public accountability: Did not change
A representative of Transparency International[Note 33: Interview held on 12 October 2015. ] remarked that while anti-corruption education is necessary it can only be truly effective in reducing corruption levels if combined with other methods on other levels of state and municipal governance (for instance, by promoting practical participation of pupils at schools and developing democratic skills early in life).
In the action plan, the government measures the success of this commitment with an increase of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score. While Lithuania’s CPI score has increased, such change can hardly be attributed to isolated anti-corruption efforts, such as those in this commitment.
In conclusion, there is no evidence suggesting, that substantial completion of this commitment has resulted in more open government practices, such as increased access to information or public accountability.
Carried forward?
The third national action plan does not include any type of commitment that would aim to further reduce corruption levels in Lithuania.
Commitments
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Open Data
LT0024, 2018, Access to Information
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NGO Database, NGO Fund
LT0025, 2018, Civic Space
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Publish Fiscal Information
LT0026, 2018, E-Government
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Public Services by NGOs
LT0027, 2018, Capacity Building
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Monitoring and Evlauation for Public Participation
LT0028, 2018, Public Participation
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Legislative Process Evaluation
LT0029, 2018, Capacity Building
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Build Open Data Portal, and Integrate Into the European Single Digital Market.
LT0015, 2016, Access to Information
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Publicize Information About Government Activities and Civic Participation in Governance.
LT0016, 2016, Capacity Building
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Publish Online Information About Revenues and Spending of National and Municipal Institutions
LT0017, 2016, E-Government
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Create and Broadcast Social Advertisements That Target Corruption in the Healthcare System
LT0018, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Create Legal, Organizational and Technical Tools to Easily Access Detailed Information About Election and Voting Procedures
LT0019, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Create Public Consultation Mechanism
LT0020, 2016, Capacity Building
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Foster Open Public Governance Culture in Public Sector
LT0021, 2016, Capacity Building
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Creation of NGO Database.
LT0022, 2016, Civic Space
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Creation of NGO Fund.
LT0023, 2016, Capacity Building
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Public Service Quality Improvements
LT0007, 2014, Capacity Building
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Developing and Promoting E-Services
LT0008, 2014, E-Government
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Encouraging Public Participation
LT0009, 2014, E-Government
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Raising Civic Awareness
LT0010, 2014, Education
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National Civil Society Fund Model Development
LT0011, 2014, Civic Space
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Accessibility of Public Information
LT0012, 2014, Access to Information
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Public Decision-Making Transparency
LT0013, 2014, Anti-Corruption
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Promoting Anti-Corruption Education
LT0014, 2014, Anti-Corruption
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Increase of the Accessibility of the Information Held by Public Administration Authorities.
LT0001, 2012,
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Centralised Publishing of Information on Government Activities
LT0002, 2012,
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More Extensive Public Consultations
LT0003, 2012, Public Participation
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Promotion of Public Participation in Public Administration Processes
LT0004, 2012, Open Parliaments
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Increasing the Accessibility of Services Provided to the Public.
LT0005, 2012, E-Government
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Promotion of Public Participation in the Process for the Improvement of Service Provision
LT0006, 2012, Public Participation