Government Transparency and Accountability

• International Conference on Good Governance in collaboration with the International Republican Institute and the Asian Democracy and Reform Association /2001/
• Round table discussion between leading economists, policy makers and journalists on “The privatization of high-value companies” /1999/
• In collaboration with the State Emergency Commission and the Governor’s Offices of Aimags, we prepared a TV and radio series with 12 episodes called “Today or Never”/2001/
• The “Minority Media” project established a press working team at the State Parliament to publicize the stance and viewpoints of minority groups in Parliament and supported the minority newspaper ‘Express Times’ by supplying them with equipment /2003/
• In collaboration with the Constitutional Court of Mongolia, our foundation published “My Constitution, My Freedom”, a comic book with simplifications of the concepts of freedom and human rights in Article 16 of the Constitution of Mongolia /2005/
• Robert Dahl’s book “On Democracy”, translated by scholars Gankhuyag D., and Enkhbat Ch., was printed and distributed free of charge to the public /2004/
• Within the scope of the Asia Foundation’s good governance program, we carried out research and gave recommendations on the “Capacity building of research in the lawmaking process” /2005/
• A mini project on strengthening the lawmaking process- policy information on 12 topics for the use of law and decision makers /2007/
• “Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)”- the Zorig Foundation supports the EITI by being a member of the organizing committee of the ‘Publish What You Pay’ NGO coalition. In order to gain the support and understanding of the public, we printed pamphlets and produced short TV clips regarding the initiative. The Foundation also translated two chapters of the book ‘Escaping the Resource Curse’ and distributed the copies.