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We at K-Monitor firmly believe that corruption is a problem that affects all parts of the society and harms everyone regardless of their beliefs, ethnicity, gender or political orientation. It not only causes enormous economic harm, but also undermines trust in institutions and the rule of law. It endangers democracies and also hurts people in regions where good governance would be must to eliminate hunger, poverty and violence. The best antidote against corruption is a society where citizen have a feeling of ownership over institutions and actively shape their environment. As a non-profit, K-Monitor supports institutions, journalists and individuals to fight corruption through community building, technology development, advocacy and research.

Principles of our operation are openness, independence and a critical approach.

You can find our 2022 annual report in English here. Our official annual reports are available on the Hungarian version of this page.


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Our Story

K-Monitor was founded by volunteers

2007

with the aim to create a map of corruption cases in Hungary.

Launch of our database and map

2008

thanks to donations we started to professionalize.

First paid employees have been hired.

2009

New webpage

2010

and a platform for whistleblowers to share their stories and receive assistance

K-Monitor receives the Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum award

2011

as an acknowledgement of our anti-corruption work and contribution to investigative journalism in Hungary.

k.blog.hu is launched

2012

and we begin to work on our network project, available at ahalo.hu.

Launch of the Be smart with data! program

2013

where we cooperated with other NGOs to foster advocacy and communication based on data in Hungary

New K-Monitor mobile app introduced

2014

besides the mobile map we run Voksmonitor at all three elections that year.

Organized the first Dawn of Asset Declarations event

2015

moreover we developed redflags.eu and introduced K-Teszt.

Civilzseb.hu launched

2016

and developed Redesign Hungary to connect creative industries and NGOs.

Parldata launched

2017

and network of sailing regatta participant visualized.

Developed budget visualisation tool

2018

and launched Voksmonitor for the elections. Our director became an Obama Fellow!

In focus: local municipalities

2019

This is the Minimum!, First Conspiracy for Democracy workshop

Launched the This is How I Gave Birth campaign

2020

and published research on Informal Payments in Maternity Care

Development of our map based participatory platform PartiMap

2021

and launching the first online consultations

We won twelve out of thirteen FOI lawsuits we initiated

2022

and monitored the conditionality mechanism launched against Hungary.

Contact How to get in touch with us?

K-Monitor Közhasznú Egyesület
Legal address:
1077 Budapest, Rózsa u. 8.
Office and mailing address:
1062 Budapest, Bajza u. 23. I./1.
Phone:
‎+36 1 789 5005
E-mail:
info@k-monitor.hu

Team

Nóra Gaál

operations leader
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Attila Juhász

communication, project coordinator
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Sándor Léderer

co-founder & executive director
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Miklós Merényi

local government expert
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Noémi Fanni Molnár

lawyer
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István Pósfai

project coordinator
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Réka Takács

office manager
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Orsolya Vincze

lawyer
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