Monitoring Report of the “Republic of Armenia Anti-Corruption Strategy and Its Implementation Action Plan for 2019-2022” has been published

On 3 October, 2019, the Government of the Republic of Armenia approved the “The Republic of Armenia Anti-Corruption Strategy and Its Implementation Action Plan for 2019-2022” (hereinafter referred to as the Strategy and Action Plan). The strategy envisages 48 measures, the term of 2 of which have expired (one was scheduled for 2019, the other for 2020), and the remaining 46 are subject to regular implementation by 2022.

The activities in terms of content include the three pillars of the fight against corruption: prevention of corruption, anti-corruption education, investigation of corruption cases (inevitability of punishment).

The Armenian Lawyers’ Association and the CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia have carried out the Monitoring of the “Republic of Armenia Anti-Corruption Strategy and Its Implementation Action Plan for 2019-2022”. The main objective of the monitoring is to assess the current progress of the implementation of the Action Plan of the Strategy. To implement the monitoring, information requests were sent to the relevant state bodies, the available documents and monitoring reports were studied, as well as two focus group discussions were conducted among the state bodies responsible for implementation of the actions and specialized CSOs and sectoral experts.

The monitoring activities were carried out from January to February 2021, and the report was developed in March of the same year.

The report on monitoring results is available here.