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15 organizations in the town of Gavar, Gegharkunik province, have become participants of the Anti-Corruption Compliance Program and completed the questionnaire “The Role of Business in Fighting Corruption: Armenian Reality”.
The questionnaires have been developed within the framework of the “Armenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms” Project, which is implemented by the “Center for International Private Enterprise” (CIPE), the “Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO (ALA), the “Corporate Governance Center” (CGC), and the “Yerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industry” (YerCCI).
Their objective is to identify the private sector’s attitude towards corruption in the business, the perception of the private sector of anti-corruption compliance, and the measures implemented and planned by the private sector to provide anti-corruption compliance.
The heads of the three of these 15 small business companies are women.
These companies include textile manufacturing, shoe production and trade companies, providers of TV service, as well as companies providing financial services.
The questionnaires provided to business representatives, in addition to the questions on corruption issues also included questions about whether the company has adopted the codes of business conduct, and if yes, how cases of violations are revealed and so on.
According to Liana Makvetsyan, a lawyer, responsible for the CSOs incubator the of the Gavar office of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project, the heads of organizations are interested in what they would gain from participation in this program and how it would contribute to the company’s safer work.
“When completing the questionnaires, various questions are raised regarding this or that formulation, which can be assumed that the business sector does not have a very good understanding of anti-corruption programs, undesirable consequences of corruption in business, and the fight against them. They noted that manifestations of corruption are often be met in individual-state body dialogue, and they attached importance to the fact that both parties should be responsible,” she said.
The following steps will be taken within the framework of the program:
Notably, the objective of the project is to combat corruption in the business sector, to introduce the Anti-Corruption Compliance Standards within the Armenian business community, and implementing Anti-Corruption Compliance Programs in SMEs.