By making a gift of a good or service, with no expectation of anything in return, an organization may show its attachment to certain values and traditions. Gifts and hospitality may also be part of its promotional strategy. Such gifts and hospitality are part of the normal way of doing business. This generosity, in itself, is neither illegal nor immoral, but, under certain circumstances, may give rise to suspicions about hidden advantages received in return that could expose the organization to integrity risks. Indeed, when given or received with a view to creating an obligation and leading the recipient to betray the interests under their responsibility, such gifts may result in bribery or influence peddling. A corporate policy setting the official rules for offering and receiving gifts and hospitality (“gifts and hospitality policy”) constitutes a key tool for managing such risks. In this context, the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) published a guide that aims to help companies, whether public or private, and non-profits to design and effectively implement a gifts and hospitality policy.
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Corruption Prevention / Risk Analysis Rhineland-Palatinate
The integrity of the public administration is of central importance for a state governed by the rule of law. Corruption can cause great damage and seriously affects the reputation of the state. The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate is therefore actively trying to prevent corruption in the administration. Rhineland-Palatinate takes full action against corruption, to ward off damage to the state and to protect its reputable contractual partners.
The main elements of the program for the prevention of corruption are set out in an administrative regulation issued by the state government on January 22, 2019. The website provides the administrative regulation with its annexes, guidelines and Q6A.
The guideline for risk management corruption was introduced with the 2019 administrative regulation. A flowchart for risk analysis corruption can be found via the website as well as excel sheets and templates to conduct the necessary risk analysis (Attachment 1 to Annex 1)
Die Integrität der öffentlichen Verwaltung ist für einen Rechtsstaat von zentraler Bedeutung. Korruption kann großen Schaden anrichten und beeinträchtigt das Ansehen des Staates erheblich. Die rheinland-pfälzische Landesregierung versucht daher aktiv, Korruption in der Verwaltung zu verhindern. Rheinland-Pfalz geht konsequent gegen Korruption vor, um Schaden vom Land abzuwenden und seine seriösen Vertragspartner zu schützen.
Die wesentlichen Elemente des Programms zur Korruptionsprävention sind in einer Verwaltungsvorschrift der Landesregierung vom 22. Januar 2019 festgelegt. Auf der Website finden Sie die Verwaltungsvorschrift mit ihren Anhängen, Richtlinien und Q6A.
Der Leitfaden zum Risikomanagement Korruption wurde mit der Verwaltungsvorschrift 2019 eingeführt. Über die Website finden Sie ein Flussdiagramm zur risikoanalyse sowie Excel-Tabellen und Vorlagen zur Durchführung der notwendigen Risikoanalyse (Anlage 1 zu Anhang 1)
Interactive Guide for Risk Management. Application to manage risk for integrity in Public Procurement process
Carrying out a risk management process for integrity is a complex task for public institutions. For this reason, the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (Spain) makes risk management tools available to public managers to facilitate the process. The essential and complete risk management tools we share in the OECD Integrity Toolkit, aims at guiding them in this preventive task.
The Guide has two main tools:
- A roadmap to apply the methodology of risk assessment of the main risk areas in public management: procurement, human resources management, subsudies, urban planning, and budget management,
- The main output of four years of risk analysis in public procurement processes. The diagnosis establishes 12 main risk areas in the three phases of procurement process: preparation, awarding and execution. Main factors are considered human, organizational, operational, procedural, external -laws and regulation-).
Other useful methods and tools are in the link https://www.antifrau.cat/en/tools.html
Guidebook on how to address corruption risks in the education sector
“Corrupt schools, corrupt universities: What can be done?” presents conclusions drawn from UNESCO-IIEP’s research into ethics and corruption in education. It helps to build awareness among decision-makers and education managers of the importance of combating corruption, provides them with tools to detect and assess corruption problems, and guides them in formulating strategies to curb malpractices.
Languages: Also available in Azeri and Arabic.