- Date
- July 29, 2003
Civil society is often seen as a cure for corruption in the post-Communist world. International organizations and experts tend to believe that NGOs have an important role in exposing corruption or that they can even in some ways prevent potential corruption. NGOs can monitor interaction between people in the government and the business sector, alerting the public to misconduct. Also, the transparency of public sector decision-making processes can be increased by lobbying on the part of NGOs.
However, the underlying problem lies in putting an equation mark between “NGOs” and “civil society,” overlooking often deficient institutional frameworks where corruption is allowed to thrive and civil society is constrained.
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