Strengthening Integrity in Public Procurement: Highlights from the iMonitor Final Conference in Brussels

On 27 March 2025, the iMonitor project held its Final Conference in Brussels, bringing together civil society organisations, anti-corruption experts, EU representatives and public officials to present the project’s achievements and discuss more broadly the role of data and civic engagement in safeguarding public investment. The event marked the culmination of a two-year initiative combining data-driven risk assessment in public...

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iMonitor presented at UNODC Conference on Anticorruption Day 2024

On December 9, 2024, the International Anti-Corruption Day, GTI’s scientific director, Prof. Mihály Fazekas, had the opportunity to present the iMonitor project online at a prestigious conference organized in Colombia by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the Andean Region and the Southern Cone. The event brought together leading regional and international experts, policymakers, and academics...

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Introducing the iMonitor Reporting Template: A Tool to Assist Civic Monitors in Gathering and Reporting Actionable Information on Monitored Contracts

Now in its second year, the iMonitor project is currently focusing on implementing its civic monitoring methodology in practice in the countries involved in this initiative. Since early summer, our volunteer monitors in Catalonia (Spain), Italy and Romania have started monitoring a few selected high-risk contracts, gathering detailed information about contract terms, hired suppliers and the actual contract implementation in...

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iMonitor Showcased at OECD’s Global Anti-Corruption Initiative Event

We are thrilled to share that iMonitor was recently presented at the webinar “Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Tackle Integrity Risks,” organised by the OECD’s Global Initiative to Galvanize the Private Sector as Partners in Combatting Corruption (GPS). Our scientific director, Dr. Mihály Fazekas, participated in the panel titled “How Can Control and Audit Functions Better Leverage Emerging Technologies to Contribute...

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iMonitor Training Programme: Empowering Monitors Across Three Countries

The iMonitor project has achieved yet another milestone in its mission to empower citizens as vigilant watchdogs of public contract implementation in their communities. Our NGO partners in Italy, Romania, and Catalonia (Spain) have successfully completed the delivery of our comprehensive skill development program, with the participation of 107 civic monitors in total from their emerging monitoring networks. Tailored Training for...

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Empowering civic monitoring: identifying low-integrity contracts with opentender.eu

At the iMonitor project, we are committed to empowering citizens to actively engage in monitoring public contracts, thereby contributing to transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption efforts in public procurement at the local level. Our innovative public contract monitoring model combines data-driven risk assessment with on-the-ground monitoring by trained civic monitors. Central to our approach is the use of opentender.eu, maintained by the...

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Opentender data updates and improvements released

We are thrilled to share the latest developments in the iMonitor project, featuring a series of updates and enhancements to opentender.eu, the flagship platform maintained by the Government Transparency Institute. These improvements represent a significant step forward in our mission of providing timely access to public procurement data and fostering transparency and integrity in public procurement across Europe and beyond. In...

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iMonitor partners present project to the Open Spending EU Coalition

We're thrilled to share the success of our recent online presentation hosted by the Open Spending EU Coalition. Titled "iMonitor: Supporting law enforcement with public procurement data analytics and civil monitoring," the webinar delved into our project's objectives and achievements. During the session, we provided a comprehensive overview of iMonitor, highlighting its core goal of empowering law enforcement through public procurement...

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Corruption Risk Indicators in Public Procurement: An extended opentender.eu framework

Authors: Dániel Kofrán, Ágnes Czibik, Mihály Fazekas (Government Transparency Institute). This risk assessment methodology report presents the tools that the iMonitor project uses for measuring corruption risks in the public procurement process, which will serve to select high-risk contracts for civil monitoring in the project. After introducing the public procurement process, the report focuses on the key aspects of measuring corruption,...

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The iMonitor project has been just started!

The iMonitor project - Enhancing law enforcement efficiency by bringing together public procurement data analytics and civil monitors – has been just started on the 1st of May, 2023. The two years long project is co-financed by the European Commission under the ISF-2022-TF1-AG-CORRUPT call (Project nr: 101103267 ) About the iMonitor project: Due to the lack of monitoring capacity, law...

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