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About Ekhbar

Ekhbar is an innovative digital platform dedicated to empowering Lebanese citizens to take a stand against corruption. It provides a secure, anonymous, and user-friendly environment where individuals can report corruption. Our website is specifically designed to ensure that your voice is heard without compromising your safety.

Through the Ekhbar platform, citizens are empowered to exercise their rights under the Whistleblower Protection Law and the Right to Access Information Law, both of which are vital in promoting accountability and combating corruption. In addition to being a safe and trusted repository, Ekhbar provides valuable data on anti-corruption activities across Lebanon while ensuring complete confidentiality.

Our team is committed to providing the necessary legal advice and resources to help you navigate the complexities of reporting corruption while safeguarding your rights and security.

 

About TI-LB

Transparency International Lebanon (TI-LB) is Lebanon’s leading advocate for transparency, accountability, and good governance. Since 1999, TI-LB has been on the front lines of the fight against corruption, working to strengthen institutional integrity across Lebanon’s public and private sectors. As the national chapter of Transparency International, we believe in more than just envisioning a corruption-free society—we are actively making it happen by driving change, empowering citizens, and holding institutions accountable.

With a people-centered approach, TI-LB tackles corruption from multiple angles, guided by a robust Impact Matrix that emphasizes three core areas: Policy & Institutional Change, Behavior Change, and Awareness & Outreach. We operate as a guiding thread and conveying channel between international organizations, civil society, and citizens, creating a chain of dialogue and collaboration that promotes a participative approach to anti-corruption efforts. This continuous exchange of information fosters transparency, ensures well-informed communities, and bridges gaps between global standards and local needs.

To achieve meaningful, lasting change, TI-LB builds robust, long-term partnerships with a network of dedicated national, local, and international organizations working across Lebanon. These partnerships enhance our strategic reach, propelling TI-LB to deliver anti-corruption initiatives that are both globally aligned and locally impactful. By combining international standards with deep community engagement, we ensure that our programs not only meet global benchmarks but are also highly responsive to Lebanon’s unique governance challenges and diverse community needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

EKHBAR platform aims to simplify the process of securely reporting corruption cases, ensuring confidentiality and easy online access. It is an online space that allows citizens to file corruption complaints, while ensuring confidentiality and protection of information. It also provides legal advice and guides users through the process of requesting information, in line with the Right of Access to Information Law, thus contributing to enhancing transparency and accountability.
Several significant reasons have led the LALAC to switch to a digital platform. First, digitization aims to facilitate citizens' access to legal services and advice available from anywhere at any time, minimizing geographical and time barriers. Second, digitization enhances efficiency and speed in addressing issues and providing support, making the response more efficient and relevant to the citizens' needs amid rapid technological transformations.
Digital transformation aims to better reach the youth, who are the most engaged with technology and online platforms. By providing services through a digital platform, the LALAC can engage youth and get them to engage in legal issues and advocacy, leading to greater legal awareness and active participation of this key category of the society.
The platform is crucial to fight corruption, especially in the current circumstances, where trust in public institutions is diminishing. It is a tool that empowers citizens to be part of the anti-corruption process, and promotes transparency and accountability.
This process is highly efficient in fighting corruption, as it provides a safe and easy platform for citizens to report corruption cases, therefore encouraging community involvement in the fight against this scourge. The platform ensures confidentiality, protecting whistleblowers and enhancing their confidence to report.
However, the efficacy of this process will still depend on the cooperation of all parties, including government and judicial institutions, and the enforcement of anti-corruption laws such as the right of access to information and the law on the protection of whistleblowers.
a. Receiving the corruption-related cases you report.
b. Providing free legal advice on the case and ways to proceed.
c. Referring the case to a specialized law firm when necessary.
d. Referring the case to the competent governmental institutions and following up.
e. Assisting with the process of requesting information.
f. Responding to inquiries related to anti-corruption information.
Yes, the platform guarantees full confidentiality of all reported information and the reporting can be done anonymously.
The legal guarantees and protections that can be obtained for whistleblowers are provided under the Whistleblowers’ Protection Law. This law ensures that whistleblowers are protected from discrimination, retaliation, or any action that interferes with their personal or professional interests. The law also includes financial rewards that could reach 5% of the funds saved or recovered by the administration for whistleblowers who have not participated in corruption crimes, encouraging people with information about corruption to disclose it, knowing that their identities and the information they provide will remain protected.
EKHBAR platform deals with a wide range of corruption cases that citizens may encounter in their interactions with public institutions. These cases include, but are not limited to: bribery, embezzlement of public funds, abuse of authority, favoritism, misuse of public resources, fraud in government procurement, and any other form of administrative or financial corruption. Our goal is to provide a safe and confidential platform for all citizens to report any corrupt practices they witness, experience, or are involved in, regardless of their size or nature, in order to contribute to the fight against corruption and promote transparency and integrity in public institutions.
Under the Right of Access to Information Law, any natural or legal person can request a wide range of information and documents from various public and private organizations that run public utilities. These include public administrations, public institutions, independent administrative bodies, courts, municipalities, private companies entrusted with the management of a public facility among others. Information that can be requested include files, reports, studies, minutes, statistics, orders, instructions, circulars, memos, contracts, national archives documents, electronic documents, audio and video recordings, as well as images and scannable documents such as CDs and USBs. The law promotes transparency and provides free access to information to enhance accountability and good governance.
There are no fees associated with submitting a request for information through the EKHBAR platform. Our services, including submitting requests for information, are available free of charge to all citizens. Our goal is to facilitate access to public information and promote transparency without any financial barriers. You can use the platform to submit your request for information at zero cost.
Yes, you can follow the status of your request via the EKHBAR platform. After submitting your request, you will be provided with a reference number related to your request. You can use this number to log in to your account on the platform and track the status of your request at any time. You will find updated information about the stages of processing your request, including the date the request was received, who is responsible for responding, and the expected response time. We aim to ensure transparency at all stages of the information request process.
If you do not receive an answer to your request by the relevant authorities within the prescribed legal period (usually 15 working days with a one-time extension), you can take the following steps:

1. Reach out to the EKHBAR platform: we will follow up on your request with the relevant organization and try to get a response.
2. File a complaint to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC): If there is still no response, you can file a complaint to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). The NACC is authorized to consider complaints about violations of the Right of Access to Information Law. The NACC shall examine your complaint and issue a binding decision within a period of two months.
3. Appeal to the State Council: If you are not satisfied with the decision of the NACC, or if the NACC does not respond to your complaint within the specified time limit, you can appeal the NACC's decisions to the State Council as per the procedures stipulated in the law.

We will guide you through every step of the process and provide legal advice. Remember that the right to access information is fundamental, and we are dedicated to helping you get the information you need.


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Please note that the information displayed on this platform represents the number of received reports and does not necessarily reflect the actual scale of corruption in Lebanon.
Specific content and enhancements to this website were produced with the financial assistance of the European Union within the framework of the project “Transparency Now: Strengthening Anti-Corruption Efforts in the EU Southern Neighbourhood”, jointly implemented by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and Transparency International. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union or the United Nations.

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