6.iv.2: Public Sector Integrity

To enhance integrity, transparency and accountability in public institutions.

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Corruption in the public sector robs people of their access to decent livelihoods. TI will promote public sector integrity by focusing on curbing corruption in public contracting, combating judicial corruption and promoting revenue and expenditure transparency. TI will also increasingly work in the areas of public service delivery and local government integrity. Corruption in public procurement considerably increases the cost of the provision of services, which constitute a major proportion of public budgets. Curbing corruption in procurement allows for the provision of good quality services at fair costs. TI will cooperate with relevant organisations at the global level in strategies to strengthen countries’ standards and practical abilities to better prevent corruption in public contracting. Through the development and implementation of tools and application of best practices, we will seek to enhance civil society’s capacity to better monitor performance of public contracting at national and local levels. We will work in coalition with other civil society organisations, public institutions and business associations committed to strengthening more effective, efficient and transparent public contracting environments, with greater access to information as a key component. TI will also work on combating judicial corruption, focusing on both the independence and accountability of the judiciary. The judiciary must be effective to achieve adequate integrity systems, and therefore judicial reform must address both undue political influence in judicial appointments and decisions and create conditions for judges that reduce the pressure for petty bribery. TI will also hold magistrates accountable for their decisions. In order to improve revenue and budget expenditure transparency it is vital to strengthen the accountability of decision-makers. To secure meaningful accountability there has to be adequate information about revenue income and expenditure. TI is working towards setting standards for revenue transparency, ways to measure revenue transparency performance and diagnose areas for improvement, as well as advocating the use of revenue transparency standards and measures of performance by companies, rating agencies, investors, government regulators and civil society.

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