2009 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Weak conflicts of interest regulations and a lack of citizen access to information in Algeria create a scenario where there is little oversight of government activity. Gift giving is a common practice for those who wish to influence members of the executive and judicial branches. Legislators are often involved in business projects that leverage their political connections. In addition, asset disclosure requirements go unenforced across all branches of government, and due to partisan appointments in the supreme audit institution, government auditing is rarely completed. Citizens are unable to participate in budget debates and cannot access many key budget documents necessary to monitor public expenditures. Not only are government documents often unavailable to the public, but the channels through which citizens could request government information are often non-existent or complicated. For example, there is no independent ombudsman, and the anti-corruption agency has no website or direct channels through which citizens can reach its staff. Algerian citizens must first submit a formal letter of complaint to the Ministry of Finance, which then directs the claim to the appropriate agency.