<p><strong>No ministry or municipality in the country has a high level of protection against corruption in public procurement</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.16px;"><a href="images/ranking of institutions.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="images/ranking.png" border="0" width="300" height="393" style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px; border: 0px;" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">Today, July 3, 2024, the Center for Civil Communications (CCC) announced the <a href="images/ranking of institutions.pdf" target="_blank">ranking of the Government, line ministries and municipalities according to 32 anti-corruption performance indicators in public procurement</a>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Institutions are placed in three zones – red, yellow and green depending on the points won for the way they carry out public procurement. 100% means maximum and 0% means no protection against corruption.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">4 ministries and 43 municipalities are in the red zone, that is, their public procurements are carried out with a low level of protection against corruption because they have scored less than 50%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">No institution is located in the green zone, of high protection against corruption, with an anti-corruption performance of over 80%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning and the Ministry of Political System and Relations between Communities have the greatest exposure to corruption.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Among the municipalities, the lowest level of anti-corruption performance in public procurement was determined in Kratovo and Gostivar. In the red zone is the City of Skopje, as well as 40 other municipalities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The best performance among ministries have the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, with a level of anti-corruption performance of 72%. Among municipalities, the best anti-corruption performance in public procurement have Kavadarci, with 70%, as well as Veles and Probishtip, with 66%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The low level does not necessarily mean corruption in the public procurement of that institution at all costs, but that not all possible measures are taken to prevent it, and hence the possibility of it happening in these institutions is higher.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The ranking was made within the "Citizens Against Corruption" program, supported by USAID. For more information, please contact the Center for Civil Communications at (02) 3213-513 or at center@ccc.org.mk.</span></p>