Transparency International’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) provide free and confidential legal advice to witnesses and victims of corruption. Offering a simple, credible and viable mechanism for citizens to pursue their corruption-related complaints, ALACs empower citizens in the fight against corruption. ALACs also play a critical role identifying corruption hotspots that demand reform or official action. Harnessing the powerful, real life data gathered by ALACs on the consequences and mechanisms of corruption, Transparency International (TI) chapters engage in strategic advocacy to bring about systemic change in public policy and practice.

The ALAC approach is already successfully used by TI National Chapters in more than 40 countries. To find out where, click here.

Blowing the whistle in Central America: not as easy as it sounds, Space for Transparency Blog, 12 January 2012

Rural Rwandan communities fight corruption, Space for Transparency Blog, 5 January 2012

Whistleblowers in Ireland, Space for Transparency Blog, 27 December 2011

Mobile ALACs in Africa: Giving citizens from rural areas a voice, Space for Transparency Blog, 6 December 2011

ALAC Venezuela opens: At last a solution to corruption, Space for Transparency Blog, 20 July 2011

Transparency International Ireland launches ‘Speak Up’ Helpline, (Video), 26 May 2011

Solomon Islands legal centre to fight corruption, Radio Australia (podcast), 2 December 2010

ALAC in Madagascar opened, L’express de Madagascar, 21 October 2010

Criminal investigation into GEL 1.5 million worth of missing irrigation pipes in Krtsanisi, TI Georgia Blog, 15 October 2010

TI National Chapter in Turkey has launched its Transparency Call Centre, 14 October 2010

Providing Legal Advice to Citizens in Senegal, Space for Transparency Blog, 7 September 2010

Anti-corruption watchdog backs referenda to brake councils’ plans to steamroller through solar power projects, Radio Praha, 22 April 2010

Citizens Become Actors in the Fight Against Corruption, Capacity4Dev, February 2010

Surpassing early expectations, the ALAC model has become one of the most dynamic approaches used across the global TI movement. This rapid growth is evidence of ALAC‘s practical and results-driven approach as well as their high cost effectiveness. To find your local ALAC, click on the map below:

Transparency International (TI) presents ‘On the Front Line’, a film documenting the work of the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre run by Transparency Palestine in the West Bank. The film looks at the people behind the centre and follows the stories of three of its clients.