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Advocacy & Legal Advice Centres provide assistance to witnesses and victims of corruption and provide valuable information about corruption hotspots to drive the advocacy efforts of the anti-corruption movement.

This site is the first point-of-call for citizens seeking legal advice in their country, for those interested in supporting the ALAC programme, and for those who want to learn more about this vital, grass-roots initiative, the people it has helped, the people behind it and the change it has driven.

Transparency International’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) are walk- or call-in corruption complaint offices. These help and resource centres are open to any citizen who may have become a victim or witness of corruption.

Most TI centres have a toll-free telephone hotline and citizens can always get in touch via email or post. TI’s ALACs are a growing phenomenon and have already helped tens of thousands of people with corruption complaints.

ALACs are run by national chapters of Transparency International and provide free and confidential legal advice and assistance – helping them pursue official corruption related complaints and encouraging them to come forward.

Informing anti-corruption reforms. Because of their constant contact with society, ALACs also play a critical role as ‘sensory organs’ identifying corruption hotspots that demand reform or official action.

Although they do not publicise cases that are not already in the public domain, ALACs disseminate the intelligence they generate in the form of reports and press releases.

ALACs push for specific administrative, institutional, legal and systemic changes.

Past cases have ranged from small bribes to grand corruption involving hundreds of millions of dollars. The sheer diversity of the cases and the people who use the centres – from the unemployed to entrepreneurs – demonstrates the pervasive nature of corruption.

The centres have cumulatively processed tens of thousands of cases. To read an example of a case handled by the ALAC in Baku, Azerbaijan, click here

There are now over 20 TI Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres operating in over a dozen countries around the world. To find out if there is an ALAC near you see the map above.