Open contracting opportunity / Thailand Integrity and Transparency Assessment / Myanmar MPs asset declaration

Open Contracting Lift program (Capacity building and funding opportunity).  This impact accelerator program to help teams of bold procurement reformers around the world to go further with their ideas and deliver change will offer extensive, tailored support from leading experts and peers to deliver better goods, works, and services, and expand economic opportunity for everyone through new or better contracting strategies. Teams will be eligible for up to $30,000 worth of direct support depending on team needs and progress, as well as 200 hours of technical assistance and support from Open Contracting Partnership.

Application deadline: Friday 12 March 2021

Open Contracting Partnership: https://lift.open-contracting.org/ 

 

Integrity and Transparency Assessment.  “Through a collaboration between Office of the [Thai National Anti-Corruption Commission] and the Faculty of Economics at Chulalongkorn University, [Integrity and Transparency Assessment] uses a holistic and comprehensive approach to enable multi-faceted data collecting, an essential resource when looking to enhance integrity and transparency…The NACC will report ITA Results in August 2021.”

Bangkok Post: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pr/2056635/integrity-and-transparency-assessment

 

NLD orders MPs to hand over lists of assets in bid to prevent corruption. “[Myanmar’s] National League for Democracy (NLD) has ordered every one of its newly elected MPs to provide a full list of their assets before December 30…The order, similar to the one the party made after its 2015 election victory, comes at the end of a term in which senior NLD figures were toppled, and even jailed, following allegations of graft.”

Nyan Hlaing Lin and Min Min/Myanmar Now: https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/nld-orders-mps-to-hand-over-lists-of-assets-in-bid-to-prevent-corruption