Monitoring was conducted by the Bona Fides Association from May to August 2007 as a part of the pilot project of the Laboratory of Budget Monitoring led by the Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups, financed by the European Union and Stefan Batory's Foundation. The project was introduced in nine Polish districts.

AddresseesCouncilors of Katowice, town's president, Katowice Municipal Office's employees and residents of Katowice AimsProject's aim is to increase the quality and transparency of public life at local self-government level. Furthermore, the project is expected to develop and strengthen civil participation in decision-making process that refers to residents themselves and to the

This service is the initiative of the Association 61. This an independent, non-governmental organization whose aim is to build the public system of the information concerning people who are elected for the particular public posts.

Complete and objective information concerning people elected for fulfilling public dutiesThe project is supposed to create the database of the official activities taken up by Parliament's members, senators and Polish representatives in the European Parliament. All the information is accessible on the website and is regularly updated. Not only does

The project involved monitoring the access to free legal aid in Poland in 2003. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights researched the legal status and the actual situation in Polish courts. The monitoring was part of a bigger project: “Access to Justice in Central and Eastern Europe”.

Addressees: European Commission, legal circles, Ministry of Justice, international and Polish organisations engaged in legal aid Aims: - making the problem of access to justice become a subject of serious public debate which would engage state organs, legal corporations, and representatives of the non-governmental sector – improving the

Politics in Warsaw, or local authorities and Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz’s mayoralty under inspection - blog

Addressees: Public opinion, citizens of Warsaw, media Aims: The aim of the blog is regular monitoring of the Warsaw Municipal Government Office’s actions during Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz’s mayoralty, with a special focus on the monitoring of the election promises. The specific character of the blog allows for instant

The project consisted in collecting and cataloging public statements concerning Iraq and weapons of mass destruction made by top Bush administration officials in the USA in the years 2001-2003. From 2005 to the end of 2007, The Center for Public Integrity monitored media source materials, as well as official information coming from Bush administration officials.

Addressees: Public opinion in the USA and all over the world Aims: From 2005 it is a common knowledge that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction, and at the moment of attack Bush administration officials could not sufficiently prove their statements. The aim of

Monitoring of participants of voting process in order to counteract abuses and violations of the election law on national level.

Period: Regularly from 1999 during every election, the most known action in 2004. Addressees: Public opinion, media, citizens, National Electoral Board, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Aims: Monitoring of participants of voting process in order to counteract abuses and violations of the election law on national level. Methodology: Monitoring is a part

Monitoring the processes of planning and spending public money coming from the voivodeship budget, taking into special consideration the financial means from the Mazowieckie Regional Operation Programme and the regional component of the Sectoral Operational Programme “Human Capital”

The project was connected with the monitoring of the processes of planning and spending public money coming from the voivodeship budget, taking into special consideration the financial means coming from the Mazowieckie Regional Operation Programme and the regional component of the Sectoral Operational Programme “Human

The aim of the project was to eliminate bad practices in the field of environmental impact assessment, and so to minimize environmental losses.

Addressees: Public opinion, officials responsible for environmental protection Aims: The aim of the project was to eliminate bad practices in the field of environmental impact assessment, and so to minimize environmental losses; to reduce conflicts and eliminate procedural errors. Methodology: The project was conducted under support of Institute

The project involved monitoring the free access to public information law in Romania in the years 2005-2006. The organisation Asociatia Pro Democratia (APD) from Romania in partnership with IRIS Center for Institutional Reform (USA) tested Romanian institutions with regard to the readiness and ability to give public information.

Addressees: NGOs in entire Romania, people working in the public administration, and politicians Aims: The aim of the project was to test the level of conformity of Romanian public institutions with the requirements of the Law 544/2001 (concerning free access to public information) so that the citizens exercising

The project consisted in collecting specific, reported cases of corruption in Poland from 1 September, 2000 to 1 October, 2001. Transparency International Polska collected approx. 6500 press-clippings from about 100 press sources.

Addressees: The report makes citizens aware of corrupt behaviour in everyday life. It’s also addressed to the representatives of public institutions, who hold the power to enforce legal changes. Aims:  to depict the scale of corruption in Poland,  to show legal loopholes, systemic and organizational shortcomings,  to

The project Transparent Local Government was implemented within the framework of Watchdog Initiatives funded by Stefan Batory Foundation. It’s aim is to increase social control over planning, spending, and accounting for public funds on the level of local governments.

Addressees: Non-governmental organizations from Lower Silesia. Local governments’ officials of communes and districts (gminas and powiats, respectively) in Lower Silesia. Aims: It’s aim is to increase social control over planning, spending, and accounting for public funds on the level of local governments as well as to

The main aim of the project, realised from November 2006 to October 2007, was to monitor the process of planning and spending financial resources from the state budget on securing the stability of the Wloclawek barrage. An element of the survey was also to monitor how budget resources are spent on actions connected with the plans to construct the Nieszawa barrage (the estimated cost of the construction of the Nieszawa barrage amounts to approx. 2 billion zlotys).

Addressees: Circle of ecological organisations, civil servants responsible for environmental protection, public opinion. Aims: The main aim of the project was to monitor the process of planning and spending financial resources from the state budget on securing the stability of the Wloclawek barrage. An element of the survey