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Events
GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
Publication: Index of Transparency at Municipal Level in Kosovo
January 30, 2013
The Speak Up! Movement (FOL) has published the Index of Transparency at Municipal Level, a report on the implementation of the Law on Access to Public Documents at local level in Kosovo, as part of the BTD-supported project “Promoting Greater Transparency of Public Institutions in Kosovo.”
The report, based on research conducted in four municipalities (Gjakova, Podujeva, Prizren, and Mitrovica), presents the results of questionnaires created by FOL and completed by municipal representatives detailing municipal policies on public access to official documents and the level of communication of citizens with their local municipal structures. The effort expands FOL’s annual Index of Transparency, previously supported by BTD, which advocated for and monitored transparency in Kosovo’s public institutions through activities including testing the level of responsiveness to freedom of information requests coming from extra-governmental actors and individual citizens, to include the municipal level. The Index has proven to be a strong tool in advocating for increased transparency, especially as FOL has developed targeted structural interventions to assist state institutions in further developing capacities for full implementation of the law.
