Assets and interest declarations of public officials are increasingly becoming a multi-purpose tool in EU member states to promote transparency and overall trust in public officials and the civil service. For the candidate countries curbing corruption is a central precondition on the accession path.
The general objective of the qAID project is to provide EU Member States (MSs) and Candidate States (CSs) with contemporary knowledge and innovative tools to assess and improve the impact of national asset and interest disclosure (AID) systems. Specifically, this is done by: (i) identifying best practices and effective (including automated and digital) systems and processes through structured evaluation process; (ii) developing a standardized EU risk analysis framework to strengthen filters for declarations and prioritize verification, along with a roadmap for implementing automated and digital risk analysis of declarations of assets and interests of relevant public officials in EU MSs and CSs; (iii) the development of a comprehensive toolkit to measure the impact of asset and interest disclosure systems in EU MSs and CSs; (iv) the dissemination of the new knowledge and developed tools among national stakeholders in EU MSs and CSs.
The project (co-funded by the European Commission under the ISF programme) is coordinated by the Centre of Crime and Security Sciences of the Universities of Trento and of Verona and carried out in partnernishp with the Italian Anticorruption Authority (ANAC), the Romanian National Agency for Integrity, the Centre for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) and the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (the regional intergovernmental organisation devoted to curb corruption in South Eastern Europe, based in Bosnia and Herzegovina).
