b y ACRC(Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, Republic of Korea)
Integrity AssessmentOf Public Organizations
1. Concept and Background
Lord Kelvin (British physicist)
An innovative initiative to encourage public institutions
to engage in voluntary efforts to prevent corruption
by regularly assessing and disclosing
the integrity levels at public institutions
Concept of Integrity Assessment
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1. Concept and Background
Implement preventive measuresfor corruption-causing factors
Reactive approachbased on crack-down and punishment
Efficiency
Background
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Introduce scientificassessment model
Limits ofconventionalcorruption assessment models
Accuracy
Promote citizens’rights to know and participation
Growing public awareness about corruption issues
Transparency
Integrity AssessmentInitiative
Solutions
Problems
Values
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Increase national
competitiveness
through enhanced
integrity
2. Objectives and Features
Understand trends in corruption levelsof public organizations
Identify corruption-prone areasin the public sector and root causes of corruption
Encourage public institutionsto engage in voluntary anti-corruption efforts
Provide basic data for devising government-wideanti-corruption strategies
Objectives
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2. Objectives and Features
Areas to be assessed Persons to be surveyed
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Survey questions
Individual organizations
and their specific tasksFirst-hand service users
and internal staff of pub-
lic organizations
Personal perception
of corruption & actual ex-
perience with corrupt
practices
(offering of money, gifts,
entertainment or favors)
Features
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Data sources Assessment results
A++
Phone or online sur-
veys & statistics
on the public
officials punished
for corrupt acts
Disclosed to relevant or-
ganizations and
the media
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2. Objectives and Features
Features
3. History of development
Integrity Assessment
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Developed, tested & im-proved the integrity assessment model
Officially con-
ducted the 1st assess-ment(71 organizations, 348 lines of work, about 30,000 people)
Introduced
internal in-tegrity as-sessment methods
Revamped the
assessment model (to the current system)
Conducted
the 11th assess-ment(627 organiza-tions, 2,507 lines of work, about 240,000people)
1999-2001 2007 2008 2012 20132002
To conduct
the 12th as-sessment(653 organiza-tions, 2,628 lines of work, about 240,000people)
4. Assessment Model Structure
Comprehensive
integrity
(Deducted)
How transparently and accountably public officialscarry out duties without committing corruption
Statistics on employees punished for their corruptionor corruption cases reported in media
Levels of corruption in managerial activities, institutional practices and organizational culture
Levels of corruption in the processesof determining and executing policies
Internalintegrity
Policy customerevaluation
Externalintegrity
Cases ofCorruption
Integrity Assessment Model (2013)
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5. Effectiveness
Reliable data is collected by surveying some 240,000 people
Provide accurate information on the current status of corruption01
Analysis of corruption-prone areas in each public organization
02Provide an effective tool to encourage voluntary anti-corruption efforts
Results are disclosed though the media to raise the issue of corruption
Raise public awareness about corruption in the public sector03
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Gyeonggi provincial govern-ments trying hard to enhance integrity scores Local governments to take
drastic measures to come out on the bottom in the Integrity Index
Low integrity, no promotion
5. Effectiveness
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6.43
7.718.38 8.68 8.77 8.89
8.20 8.51 8.44 8.43
4.13.5
1.50.9
0.7 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.4
0.5 0.3 0.4 0.3
Comprehensive Integrity (points)
Offering entertainment (%)
Offering money / gifts (%)
Offering money / gifts / entertainment (%)
7.86
0.5
0.4
2012
6. Achievements
Integrity Index and rate of offering money, gifts and entertainment to public officials
Integrity levels have continued to improve in the public sector
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*Time series interrupted in 2012 due to modification of the model
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013
7.86
0.29
0.25
“Integrity Assessment” Program wins
2012 UN Public Service Awardsin the category of Preventing & Combating Corruption
at the UN Headquarters in New Yorkon June 25, 2012.
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7. International Recognition & Technical Assistance
Winner of 2012 UN Public Service Awards
Contact Information
Thank YouMr. Dong Hyun KimDeputy Director, Anti-Corruption Survey & Evaluation Division
Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission
Republic of Korea
Tel: 82-2-360-6548
Fax: 82-2-360-3547
E-mail: [email protected]