Integrity Pacts (IPACTs)

The main focus of the project is to create a monitoring system led by citizens and civil society organizations that ensures transparency and accessibility of data on public procurements and contracts. The project’s main activities include theoretical training on civic monitoring, field visits, discussion tables between citizens and contracting authority representatives and awareness raising activities in schools about  transparency, legality and open data.

The European Commission (DG Regio) launched a pilot program in different EU Member States to test the adoption of the Integrity Pacts (IP) in the procurement process related to European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds). The Integrity Pact is an agreement signed by the contracting authority, the bidding participants and an independent third-party control entity aimed at monitoring the tender procedures and the implementation of the contract and report any fraud or irregularity. Actionaid Italy, as indipendent supervisor, is monitoring two projects in Calabria: the modernisation of the National Archaeological Museum of Sibaritide and the transformation of the archeological area called “White House”. The Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities  (MiBAC) is involved in quality of Management Authority of the “Culture and Development” Operational Program and the Regional Secretariat for the Ministry in Calabria as the Contracting Authority.