Struggle against corruption in Azerbaijan and rescue of our country from the illness restricting national self-consciousness should be one of the primary aims of all the people and society.
Fund of Struggle against Corruption was instituted on February 1, 2004. It is aimed at carrying out of researches in a corruption sphere and bringing of them to the society’s attention. The Fund of Struggle against Corruption is a non-governmental organization, which was established to carry out decisive struggle against corruption, also to provide close participation of the public in this struggle and arouse public opinion in order to remove this problem hindering legal education and social development. To reach the assumed aims, to reveal real corruption state in Azerbaijan the Fund of Struggle against Corruption holds numerous events, polls and researches.
By taking this important step the Fund relies basically on creative potential of our nation and accepts faithfulness and frankness as a way of struggle. The Fund is not satisfied only with the description of situation, but it also joins efforts in struggle against this evil, tries to restrict various corruption cases and creates condition for each person to express his/her attitude towards this problem.
The Fund of Struggle against Corruption aims at reducing a corruption level with the support and efforts of independent experts and decent citizens of the democratic state, along with setting in motion of anticorruption mechanisms and resources.
Study of the following factors of public life, which is aimed at weakening corruption in the country in order to reach aforesaid regulations, is one of main directions:
Attitude of Azerbaijani public to the corruption problem, social spheres subjected to corruption most of all, revelation of main reasons for corruption in Azerbaijan, transparency of cooperation in the relations of the public with officials, anticorruption research of the Legislation, preparation of proposals to executive and legislative bodies of the country.
The Fund of Struggle against Corruption, during the period of its activity, carried out the projects connected with study of a corruption level in some spheres of public life: Study of a corruption level in small and middle-sized business and assuming of measures against it (the poll carried out among 1110 businessmen), corruption cases in education sphere, as well as measures and proposals aimed at their elimination, anticorruption examination of the draft law on education, working out of the project of additions and proposals to the “Law On Struggle Against Corruption”, Virtual Bar against Corruption, center of enlightenment in connection with struggle against corruption, virtual consultation and so on. The Fund members partake as national experts in the Project of Support to Strategy of Azerbaijan on Struggle against Corruption of Council of Europe (AZPAC).
The main sphere of the Fund’s activity at present stage is study of a corruption level in regions within the frames of cooperation of the public and state structures and preparation of mechanisms of struggle against it. Enlightenment of population on legislation, state documents connected with struggle against corruption and organization of public control, assistance to citizens in submitting their applications and complaints connected with corruption to state structures.