Practically, civil society representatives may be part of the procurement workgroup within a public authority with the same rights and obligations as the other members of the group, except for the right to vote. In reality, however, public authorities avoid involving civil society representatives in public procurement working groups, thus violating the law. And this again proves to us that the use of public money for the procurement of goods, services and works for the needs of the communities is an opaque activity in Moldova.

Find out from the October edition of the Newsletter "Budgets without secrets" the authorities avoid civic monitoring of public procurement, but also which rayons organize. transparent public procurements.

Also, in this issue you will find the following interesting topics:

TOP: Top of the most Transparent in Moldova: Straseni, Falesti and Soroca
OPINIONS: Democracy in the country depends on the level of transparency
INTERESTS: Businesses of millions of lei, secreted by the Rezina Rayon Council
LOCAL BUDGETS: Authorities do not have levers to set local taxes for 2018
GOOD PRACTICES: Transparency lessons, learned by rayon councils from the Slovak experience

More information you can find in the Newsletter (available only in Romanian)

The publication aims to make transparent the activity of local public authorities in Moldova by promoting transparency and financial accountability.

The Newsletter is produced within the project “Transparent, financially sound and competitive municipalities in Moldova” which is implemented by the Institute for Economic and Social Reforms (INEKO) in partnership with IDIS “Viitorul”, with the support of the SlovakAid and the US Embassy to Moldova. The project aims to increase the financial accountability of local governments in 50 municipalities throughout Moldova.