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\n Rena Safaralieva (left), Executive Director of Transparency Azerbaijan, the Azeri chapter of Transparency International, speaks at an event in April 2017
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\n This article was originally published by
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\n Eurasianet
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\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n The Azerbaijani government has forced the local chapter of the global corruption watchdog Transparency International to scale back its activities in the South Caucasus nation.\n<\/p>\n

\n The move is part of a long-running crackdown on the country\u2019s civil-society sector. But this particular episode perhaps resonates more than others because the local chapter had developed a reputation for being cautious in its approach toward the government, which international watchdogs \u2013 including
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\n Transparency International
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\n (TI) \u2013 contend is one of the more corrupt in the world.\n<\/p>\n

\n It is also stoking criticism of Western governments and advocacy organizations that fund many of Azerbaijan\u2019s largest civil society groups for adopting an allegedly restrained approach in dealings with Baku.\n<\/p>\n

\n On August 1, Transparency Azerbaijan (TA) closed two legal aid centers in the cities of Ganja and Guba, and its main office in Baku \u201csubstantially scaled down its activities,\u201d the group said in a
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\n statement
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\n .\n<\/p>\n

\n The organization indicated that its actions were prompted by laws \u2013 adopted in 2012 ahead of the last presidential election \u2013 designed to restrict foreign funding for Azerbaijani civil society organizations. Transparency Azerbaijan has traditionally gotten most of its financing from foreign donors, and as financing rules tightened, it came to rely entirely on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which provided 100 percent of the organization\u2019s funding for the last year.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis should not be allowed to happen. Transparency Azerbaijan is a non-partisan organization, like all Transparency International chapters, with no political affiliations,\u201d the Berlin-based TI said in a
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\n statement
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\n .\n<\/p>\n

\n USAID has
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\n estimated
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\n that most of Azerbaijan\u2019s still-active, independent civil society organizations have substantially cut back their operations in recent years.\n<\/p>\n

\n Transparency Azerbaijan is now the only anti-corruption organization operating in the country that is not affiliated with the government. And while Transparency International is one of the fiercest critics of the Azerbaijani leadership, the national chapter has increasingly come under fire from other local civil society activists, who complain that the local chapter\u2019s survival came at the cost of its interest in directly challenging high-level corruption in Azerbaijan.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIn other post-Soviet countries, the TI national chapters have much better reputations,\u201d said Anar Mammadli, a prominent human rights activist. \u201cUnfortunately, [TA] had not worked to establish public oversight over the government, and their work on combating corruption \u2026 didn\u2019t respond to what the public needed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n TA has conducted a variety of programs to combat corruption, develop governance skills for other local NGOs and help implement the government\u2019s ASAN e-governance system. But it has tended to avoid any direct confrontation with authorities. In one prominent example, in 2011, TA publicly
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\n disagreed
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\n with TI\u2019s assessment of the country\u2019s level of corruption.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere are fundamental corruption-related problems in the country. For instance, elected officials don\u2019t declare their income. There are corruption scandals. But TA doesn\u2019t address these issues,\u201d Mammadli said.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s possible that the reason that the government was cooperating with Transparency Azerbaijan could be to soften the criticism from Transparency International. But TI has continued its activities honestly and that may be the reason for the pressure on TA,\u201d said Zohrab Ismayil, a civil society activist and head of an NGO, the Public Association for Assistance to Free Economy. In spite of TA\u2019s relatively docile stance, the scaling back of its operations \u201cis still a loss to civil society and will narrow opportunities for people in the provinces,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

\n TA, however, disputes that criticism. \u201cIt is not our job\u201d to deal with specific issues of corruption, Rena Safaralieva, the organization\u2019s executive director, told EurasiaNet.org. \u201cOur job is to give recommendations to the government and monitor various areas,\u201d Safaralieva said.\n<\/p>\n

\n In the bigger picture, the fact that such a relatively non-confrontational organization has had to retreat raises questions about foreign donors\u2019 approach to funding civil-society groups in Azerbaijan.\n<\/p>\n

\n USAID\u2019s interactions with the government of Azerbaijan have generated controversy in the past. \u201cWhy…\u00a0 does the US government continue to fund misguided programs in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries that display no interest in reform? Why does USAID write seriously of President Aliyev\u2019s benign intentions when he has shown minimal respect for the rights of his own citizens? The reason is as banal as it is galling: bureaucratic self-interest, inertia, and the assumption that more is always better,\u201d
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\n wrote
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\n Melinda Haring, fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, in a 2013 article in Foreign Policy.\n<\/p>\n

\n Since then, the ongoing crackdown has prompted foreign donor organizations, including USAID, to shift programs to less sensitive issues, critics charge. If donors previously funded projects in areas like corruption, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly, they have now shifted to projects related to areas such as infrastructure, ecology, and agriculture.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cUntil about 2015, foreign donors have funded many projects in Azerbaijan involving young people in important areas like political campaigns, political leadership,\u201d said Abulfaz Gurbanli, a political activist and board member of the youth opposition group N!DA Civic Movement. \u201cUnder the current conditions, donors have stopped implementing politically sensitive programs in order not to create a confrontation with the authorities.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWestern states have sold Azerbaijani civil society out,\u201d
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\n claimed
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\n Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a Harvard-educated activist who spent two years in prison on politically motivated charges.\n<\/p>\n

\n Most recently, he complained, Western representatives in Baku have remained largely silent, as the government has heightened pressure on a prominent independent news organization.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWestern countries are under the mistaken impression that in Azerbaijan, leaders from the democratic front \u2026 will someday make democratic changes, and then, when everything is ready, they will say \u2018we are ready to work with you.\u2019 But this is not going to happen,\u201d Hajiyev asserted.\n<\/p>\n

\n USAID, in response to questions from EurasiaNet.org, did not directly address critics\u2019 allegations. \u201cThe United States seeks a strong, stable, independent, prosperous, democratic Azerbaijan. We have worked together with Azerbaijan in three equally important areas to help realize this goal: security, energy-economics, and democracy and human rights,\u201d the US Embassy in Baku told EurasiaNet.org in a statement. \u201cUSAID provides a wide spectrum of development assistance in two sectors: economic growth (policy reform, access to finance and economic diversification) and democracy and governance (assisting vulnerable populations, strengthening civil society).\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Even when donors want to keep working on more politically sensitive projects, they can be thwarted by other factors. The German Marshall Fund, for example, continues to work on projects to provide free legal aid and promote freedom of speech. But the organization sometimes has difficulty in identifying local partners.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cApparently the all-around pressure has done its job,\u201d said Mehriban Rahimli, the Black Sea Trust Consultant of GMF on Azerbaijan and Georgia. \u201cApplications for funding have decreased noticeably, because people are avoiding projects that are politically sensitive. It is understandable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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