Tiri

Tiri is a not for profit NGO founded in London in October 2003 by Fredrik Galtung and Jeremy Pope. They were both founders members of Transparency International and played major roles in anti-corruption awareness raising and standard setting since the early 1990s. Tiri is a UK registered charity.

Tiri was established as an independent non-governmental organisation to works with governments, business and civil society to find practical solutions to making integrity work. Improvements in integrity offer perhaps the single largest opportunity for sustainable and equitable development worldwide. as an anti The time for talking about the importance of fighting corruption had now moved on to the determined reduction of corruption and raising of integrity by the application of practical knowledge and skills. Tiri’s core strategy and approach were developed in 2003 following consultations with a number of professionals and organisations in the fields of anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability reform.Tiri has grown from an initial idea to a growing NGO responding to the interests and priorities of its partners and stakeholders. We treat integrity as a function of accountability, competence, and corruption. Tiri has established three major, innovative programs, and supported a range of smaller initiatives and interventions addressing some of the major priorities in the pro-integrity reform movements:

In 2004, the Public Integrity Education Network was started (PIEN). PIEN addresses the capacity gap of reform by facilitating a growing global network of universities committed to providing evidence-based courses on public integrity and reform.

In 2005, the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction was initiated. Working with NGOs from eight post-war countries (Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and East Timor and major aid agencies to address the particular integrity and corruption challenges and opportunities of post-war reconstruction. NIR is now supporting community-led monitoring, for example of a waste treatmnent plant in Gaza and a school-building programme in Sierra Leone.

In 2006 integrity@work was launched in Nigeria, an interactive DVD-based tool to raise ethical competences in the public sector. This programme now includes Indonesia.

In 2008, the Business Integrity Working Group with several corporations interested in addressing the challenges of doing business with integrity in the world's emerging markets will be initiated

In addition to these programmes, Tiri has also facilitated pilot initiatives in other areas such as a forum of chief Election Commissioners and another for Chief Justices. It has worked with a wide-ranging client base of governments, NGOs, businesses and inter-governmental organisations.

Tiri is founded by grants from a number of charitable foundations, like the Open Society Institute, the Aga Khan Foundation, and Ford Foundation, national governments, United Nations agencies and others.

Tiri’s head office is in London and it also has an operational base in East Jerusalem.

Tiri is a word of Maori origin. Its meanings include the protection of society by the removal of no-go areas - taboos - and the lifting of prohibitions or obstructions. It can also mean the scattering of seeds to bring forth a new generation.

External links

* [http://www.tiri.org Tiri]