Country: Lebanon
The Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) is the first Lebanese non-governmental organization specialized in promoting transparency and fighting corruption.
Welcome to the website of the Lebanese Transparency AssociationThe Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) is the first Lebanese non-governmental organization specialized in promoting transparency and fighting corruption. Realizing the unacceptable levels corruption reached in Lebanon and the need to act against it, a group of business people, academics, economists, lawyers and intellectuals joined forces to found LTA in May 1999 in a bid to curb corruption through civil society.On this website you will find information about our activities, projects and publications, as well as background information on the issue of corruption and on the global anti-corruption movement and how to join it. LTA s annual report 2005-2006Employment OpportunitiesLTAs General Assembly Elects its New Board On April 20, 2006 LTAs General Assembly of more than 60 members elected 12 new Board Members. Read more... LTAs Latest ActivitiesLTA Launches the Lebanese Code of Corporate Governance On June 13, 2006 LTA has launched a code of Corporate Governance for Lebanese companies, a premiere in the country and the Region. The code will be of great benefit for Lebanese companies and boost the Lebanese Economy. Read more and download the code ...UNDP-LTA Project: Towards a National Dialogue on Corruption in LebanonThe UNDP and LTA have designed a joint project in order to curb corruption in the Lebanse public sector. Read more... LTA and Partners Launch Lebanon Development Marketplace 2006LTA and its local and international partners launched in November 2005, the Lebanon Development Marketplace (LDM) 2006. LDM 2006 is a World Bank initiative that includes a competition, entitled quot;Youth in Governance: Shaping the Future quot;, for cash prizes totaling 230,000 USD. The prizes will be awarded to innovative project proposals that promote youth issues in Lebanon. Read more...Release of the 2005 Corruption Perceptions IndexOn October 18, 2005 Transparency International (TI) released the Corruption Perceptions Index 2005. Lebanon scored 3.1 out of 10 and ranked 83rd amongst the 159 ranked countries. Read more... Governance and Corruption around the World: New Findings and Lessons for the MENA region In October 2005, international World Bank governance experts Daniel Kaufmann and Robert Beschel visited Lebanon; a lecture was presented on Governance and Corruption in the MENA region revealing alarming numbers for Lebanon. Read more... Electoral Law for Lebanon In September 2005, LTA in cooperation with the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS), launched an intensive six-months project to accompany the work of the National Commission for the Electoral Law. This project falls in the framework of the several projects hosted by LTA during the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections 2005. Read more... LTAs Survey on Corporate GovernanceThis is one of the first opportunities to analyze empirically the problem of state capture that is the efforts of firms to shape and influence the underlyin
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