CIPE partner the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) was featured in an April 23, 2009 New York Times article “Money From Abroad Floods Into Lebanon to Buy Votes” on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Lebanon in June. LTA is in charge of monitoring election campaign spending limits – the first such monitoring system in the Arab world. CIPE and LTA are working together to tackle corruption from the supply side, within the broader context of developing a national anti-corruption strategy for Lebanon. Working in a participatory and multi-stakeholder manner—unprecedented in Lebanon on this subject and a model for the broader Middle East-North Africa region—LTA is conducting awareness-raising workshops and developing resources and practical implementation tools on corporate governance, business ethics, and anti-bribery mechanisms for listed companies, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and family-owned enterprises. Launches of these new resources will be coming up in the next couple of months, so stay tuned. You can read more about LTA and its long-term partnership with CIPE in CIPE’s newly released 2008 Annual Report.
Published Date: April 28, 2009