FOLLOW THE MONEY Edited by Dr. Vugar Bayramov The report was prepared by Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD), Azerbaijan with funding of Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) Authors: Vugar Bayramov Leyla Aliyeva Kanan Karimzada Sevinc Yusifova Expert Yashar Habiboglu Zeynalov © Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD) Shirin Mirzeyev 76 “a”/33 Baku Az1002 Azerbaijan Phone; (99412) 497 5486 Fax; (99412) 5970691 Email;
[email protected] Web; http://www.cesd.az Baku 2010 3 Contents Executive Summary 444 INTRODUCTION 888 Main Points on Oil Sector in Azerbaijan 191919 SOFAZ 212121 Monitoring of tenders announced for the Oguz-Qabala-Baku waterline project 33323222 Monitoring results 515151 Monitoring of tenders for reconstruction of the Samur-Absheron irrigation system 565656 Monitoring results 777777 Monitoring of tenders conducted for settlement of the problems of refugees and internally displaced persons who were forced to flee their native lands as a result of Armenian-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict 818181 Monitoring results 109 Monitoring tenders announced for the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railroad project 112 Monitoring of tenders announced for the State Program on education of Azerbaijan youth in foreign countries in 2007-2015 120 Conclusions and Recommendations 124 Following suggestions were prepared and presented as a result of held researches and discussions with other NGOs. 134 REFERENCES 138 Abbreviation 140 4 Executive Summary The influx of petrodollars to the country in recent years has paved the way for considerable expenditures in the state budget and the State Oil Fund of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOFAZ). Azerbaijan’s oil revenues are mainly allocated to finance projects for road construction, transport, water supply, building of houses for refugees and IDPs.