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 identifying corruption hotspots that demand reform or official action. By combining the assistance to citizens with advocacy to achieve structural reform, ALACs make a sustained contribution to better governance.

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.