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Strategies and Tools to Support Transparency in Local Governance ............................... 18 Key Issues covered by the Urban Corruption Survey ......................................................... 37 The Urban Transition .................................................................................................................... 4 The Participatory Process and the Tools Which Support It ................................................ 22
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Democracy increases demands for human rights .................................................................. 6 Common Forms of Corruption ................................................................................................. 11 Tools to enhance effectiveness of local governments in building transparency and fighting corruption: The case of Bulgaria ............................................................................... 20 Success factors in building transparency in local governments, USA ............................. 21 A Note on Donor Involvement ................................................................................................. 24 Exposing Corruption and Building Transparency through Effective Monitoring in Japan ............................................................................................................................................... 29 The Municipal Checklist ............................................................................................................ 33 Application of the Municipal Checklist in Four Towns of Namibia .................................. 34 Use of the Municipal Checklist in Piraeus, Greece ............................................................. 35 Kenya Urban Bribery Survey: Findings and Lessons ............................................................ 39 Survey to Assess Corruption in Municipal Elections in Brazil ........................................... 40 Outline of a Municipal Vulnerability Assessment ................................................................ 42 Analysing corruption’s impact on the urban poor in Indonesia ....................................... 44 Successful use of the Report Card in Bangalore, India ....................................................... 49 The Filipino Report Card on Pro-Poor Services .................................................................... 49 Score Card Surveys through Committees of Concerned Citizens in Bangladesh ....... 50 Monitoring Financial Performance of the City Corporation in Bangalore ..................... 52 Wisconsin Natural Resources Department: Listing of Public Meetings ......................... 57 Open Public Meetings Act of the United States ................................................................... 59 Arizona’s Open Meeting Laws Provide for Confidential Meetings in Specific Circumstances .............................................................................................................................. 60 Freedom of Information in South Africa - The Promotion of Access to Information Act ............................................................................................................................ 63 Increased Transparency through local computerisation in Bellandur, India ................. 65 Computerising the Law of Papua New Guinea ..................................................................... 66 The OPEN System in Korea ........................................................................................................ 68 Improving Transparency through the Internet during Elections in Ecuador ................. 69 Transparency in tendering procedures through the use of IT – Pori, Finland ............... 69 Montgomery County Website - United States ...................................................................... 70 Anti-Corruption Media Campaign in Lebanon ..................................................................... 74 Peru – Several Approaches for the Anti Corruption Campaign ........................................ 74 School Education Programme in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States .............. 74 Use of Posters as effective public information tools in Botswana .................................... 75 Baltimore’s CitiStat programme – Introducing a new culture of public information and participation ................................................................................................... 75 Operation Firimbi – Kenya ......................................................................................................... 79 Battling Corruption through Public Participation in Krasnoyarsk, Russia ...................... 80 Ethics Guidance in Canadian Legislation ............................................................................... 84 Conflicts of Interests in Contracts – California, USA .......................................................... 86 Conflict of Interest Board – New York, USA .......................................................................... 87
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