Starting Wednesday at 9 am, through a 24-hour ‘Whistle for the End’ performance at Skopje’s Macedonia Square, the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) will demonstrate to citizens how they can save money from corruption, by pressing a button, i.e., symbolically blowing the whistle.

‘Whistle for the End’ is part of a Public Awareness Campaign organized under the auspices of the regional project ‘Breaking the Silence: Enhancing the whistleblowing policies and culture in Western Balkans and Moldova’ funded by the European Union and implemented by RAI.

As part of a street performance, citizens of Skopje will be pressing a ‘Whistle for the End’ button, and thus symbolically save money from destruction and stop corruption that’s happening in front of them, in a transparent box. By pressing the button, i.e. reporting corruption, whistleblowers contribute to the prevention, detection and investigation of corruption.

The Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) is an intergovernmental regional organization, which deals solely with anti-corruption issues, covering the nine member states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.

This regional project aims to help partners in the government and non-governmental sector of beneficiary jurisdictions to improve the disclosure channels and protection mechanisms for whistleblowers; strengthen the capacity of civil society to support whistleblowing; and enhance the public awareness about the importance of whistleblowing in the fight against corruption, by enhancing the legislative and institutional framework for the protection of whistleblowers, in line with the 201 EU Directive on whistleblower protection.

MIA will livestream the performance though its website and Facebook page.