This 12-month project starts with editors sessions to encourage them to run 8-month anti-corruption campaign in their media outlets. The 1st general session will be held on 8 November at Zorig Foundation and it will involve editors from daily and weekly newspapers, Mongolian National Radio and TV and other broadcasting stations based in Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia.

The project involves a range of activities on capacity building of editors, training of journalists on investigative reporting and production of radio and TV spots.

Corruption in Mongolia has thrived in the recent years on the opportunities presented by the transitional period. It had spread in the community and is assumed to be growing. Even if its exact extent is not known, almost half of the population think that corruption is «customary» and 44.2% believe that it is «widespread».

The Parliament of Mongolia has focused on this issue and approved the National Anti-corruption programme, in its efforts to foster democratic development and the rule of law.

One of the most important aims of the anti-corruption programme is to increase the public awareness, support educational and preventive work, and promote anti-corruption activities in the society at large. The lack of unified understanding of corruption causes obstacles in fighting it. Greatest attention should be paid to changing the attitude of the public that corruption is inevitable.