{"id":15,"date":"2026-06-21T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:31:26","slug":"despre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/despre\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tI received UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award 2000 for my contribution to improving urban governance in Central and Eastern Europe.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Be the Change you Want to See, Be an Island of Integrity!\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I am Ana Vasilache, Methodology Author<\/p>

I have expertise in good governance, participatory strategic planning and institutional transformation. Trained as an architect, I brought visual and structured thinking into facilitation, organizational development and adult learning.<\/p>

Inspired by the reform experience of Ronald MacLean Abaroa, former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, with whom I collaborated, I developed the Islands of Integrity\u2122 methodology \u2014 as a participatory and strategic approach for transforming the organizational systems that allow corruption to flourish.<\/p>

Over the years,\u00a0 I applied the methodology, with the support of practitioners whom I trained and certified. They\u00a0 worked with local governments and organizations across Europe and Central Asia, helping them strengthen integrity, accountability and public trust.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ronald MacLean Abaroa<\/h3>

Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, Ronald MacLean Abaroa became internationally recognized for reducing endemic corruption and transforming his city through innovative leadership and institutional reform.\n
\nTogether with Professor Robert Klitgaard, he developed an approach that viewed corruption not simply as individual misconduct, but as the result of dysfunctional systems requiring strategic and institutional transformation.\n
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Professor Robert Klitgaard<\/h3>

Professor Robert Klitgaard is one of the world\u2019s leading experts on corruption and institutional reform.\n
\nHis conceptual frameworks \u2014 especially the understanding of corruption as a systemic phenomenon shaped by monopoly, discretion, accountability and transparency \u2014 became one of the intellectual foundations of the Islands of Integrity\u2122 methodology.\n
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Despre Am primit Premiul UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour 2000 pentru contribu\u021bia mea la \u00eembun\u0103t\u0103\u021birea guvernan\u021bei urbane \u00een Europa Central\u0103 \u0219i de Est. Cu curaj \u0219i demnitate, fii o insul\u0103 de integritate! Sunt Ana Vasilache, autoarea metodologiei Sunt expert\u0103 \u00een bun\u0103 guvernare, planificare strategic\u0103 participativ\u0103 \u0219i transformare organiza\u021bional\u0103. De profesie arhitect\u0103, am transferat g\u00e2ndirea vizual\u0103 \u0219i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":89,"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandsofintegrity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}