Tell Us What You've Done Initiative - Pilot Study Results

Global monitoring finds minimal transparency on anti-corruption efforts

25 October 2011: The first global study to test access to information about the implementation of anti-corruption treaties has found that half of the questions put to governments (50%) met with administrative silence.

The research, carried out by Access Info Europe and Transparency International and partners around the world, also found that only around one quarter of questions (just 26%) submitted in twenty countries plus the European Union resulted in information – either complete or incomplete information – being provided to the civil society requesters.

Tell Us What You've Done Report

Results dataset

Presenting the findings of the "Tell Us What You've Done" initiative at the inter-governmental meeting on the UN Convention against Corruption in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 25 October 2011, Lydia Medland of Access Info Europe commented that "Although civil society particpation is seen as integral to the UNCAC process, we found that civil society is routinely ignored by governments."

Background to the Tell Us What You've Done Initiative

On 3 May 2010, World Press Freedom Day, twenty NGOs from around the world asked their governments what they had done to implement the UN Convention against Corruption.
The aim was to obtain information which could be used to track compliance with international anti-corruption treaties and to evaluate the readiness of governments to be transparent about the measures taken.

This Project was coordinated by Access Info Europe and the Transparency International Secretariat (Berlin).

Protocol (with the questions submitted)
Participating organisations
Press Release from 3 May 2010