Georgian Defence GDI Index Moderate
Corruption risk in Georgia’s defence system is moderate, Transparency International Defence and Security’s (TI-DS) Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI), published on Thursday, reads.
Georgia shares this risk category with Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Macedonia. Latvia ranks first in this area (67 points), followed by Northern Macedonia (62 points) and Georgia (60 points).
NEW: Our GDI shows countries across Central and Eastern Europe face a high risk of corruption in their defence sectors.
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“The Georgian defence sector is generally subject to scrutiny and held to reasonably high standards of transparency, with clear access to information legislation. However, corruption risks remain and the effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny remains patchy, with most legislation passed either without amendment or with only technical changes,” GDI Index reads.
The new research revealed several areas of concern that make the country’s defence system vulnerable to corruption. These include weakness of anti-corruption mechanisms and parliamentary oversight, use of opaque public procurement procedures, and inadequate protection of whistleblowers.
The Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) is a comprehensive assessment of the quality of institutional controls to manage the risk of corruption in defence and security institutions
The GDI provides a detailed assessment of the corruption risks in national defence institutions by scoring each country out of 100 across five key risk areas: financial, operational, personnel, political, and procurement.