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What is Transparency Maldives?
Transparency Maldives is a non-political organization that promotes collaboration, awareness and other initiatives to improve governance and eliminate corruption from the daily lives of people.
Transparency Maldives received formal registration from the Ministry of Home Affairs on 19th July 2007.
We broadly define corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.
What is your approach to corruption?
Transparency Maldives does not investigate or expose individual cases of corruption. Instead, we view corruption as a systemic issue and emphasize the long-term perspective in our fight against corruption. This means we advocate for institutional change that will punish, prevent, or change the views on corruption in the Maldives.
What type of activities do you do?
Transparency Maldives can engage in a range of anti-corruption and governance building activities. Currently, we are conducting a baseline governance study, which will help guide our future interventions.
Transparency Maldives is non-partisan and non-political. It seeks to be a seeks to be a coalition builder and will collaborate with stakeholders from all sectors to bolster transparency and accountability in governance and address corruption in the Maldives.
What is your connection to Transparency International (TI)?
Our organization is the National Contact of Transparency International (TI) in the Maldives. This is the first level of accreditation in becoming a TI National Chapter.
What is Transparency International (TI)?
Transparency International (TI) is a global network including more than 90 locally established national chapters, chapters-in-formation, and national contacts. These bodies fight corruption in the national arena in a number of ways. They bring together relevant players from government, civil society, business and the media to promote transparency in elections, in public administration, in procurement and in business. TI’s global network of chapters and contacts also use advocacy campaigns to lobby governments to implement anti-corruption reforms.
What is the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)? And how does the Maldives rank?
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks countries in terms of the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians. It is a composite index, a poll of polls, drawing on corruption-related data from expert and business surveys carried out by a variety of independent and reputable institutions. The CPI reflects views from around the world, including those of experts who are living in the countries evaluated.
The Maldives was ranked for the first time in 2007. It shares the rank of 84 with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Jamaica, Kiribati, Gabon, Swaziland, Thailand, Lesotho, and FYR Macedonia. For a list of the full 2007 ranking, click here.