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The NCPA Practical Guidelines on Facilitation Payments

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Facilitation payments are payments made to secure or expedite the performance of a routine governmental action to which the payer is in effect entitled. Qualified as a form of bribe in many jurisdictions, such payments are widely considered as detrimental to society as they undermine the rule of law and fair competition. The Network of Corruption Prevention Authorities (NCPA) released practical guidelines to help businesses address this key issue and thereby uphold public integrity in the countries where they operate.

The Register of Private Interests (PINREG)

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The Register of Private Interests (PINREG) was launched by the Chief Official Ethics Commission (COEC) in 2021. The main purpose of the system is to help persons in the public sector to declare their private interests and to adjust them with public interests, as well as provide compliance officers and the COEC with the necessary tools to prevent possible conflicts of interest.

The PINREG makes the process much easier and faster by collecting the necessary data from over 10 state registers and information systems and preparing draft declarations. This allows for greater data accuracy and reliability, as the persons who are legally required to submit their declarations of private interests only need to review the draft and make necessary adjustments or fill in additional information. The PINREG collects such information as the name of the person’s workplace, official title or status (i.e. standing as a candidate at elections), participation in legal entities, transactions over 3 000 Euros, etc. Also, at least once a week the PINREG scans the state registers and information systems for updates and sends reminders for persons when the new data needs to be declared.

Another useful function that helps the COEC to ensure compliance and take prevention measures, is that the PINREG records whether a person decided not to include some of the data in his or her final declaration that was included in the draft.

There are approximately 150 000 persons that are legally required to declare their private interests in Lithuania. All their latest declarations, with few exceptions, are public. Persons in the public sector have to file declarations no later than within 30 calendar days from the date of the acquisition of their status in the public sector. And then – every time some new data emerges – for example, if a person starts in a new job.

ETICO online resource platform on ethics and corruption in education

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ETICO is a dynamic clearinghouse for all information and activities related to transparency and accountability issues in education. Developed by IIEP-UNESCO, it will provide you with more than 800 references on publications, projects, policies, and norms; thematic pages on key issues in the area of ethics and corruption in education; a glossary with definitions of the most important terms used in the fight against corruption in education; an agenda displaying recent and forthcoming events, conferences, and workshops; a blog that offers the global anti-corruption community a space to publish new ideas and discuss them; and a selection of over 1,500 newspaper articles on corruption in education issues from all over the world.

 

Guidelines on the design and development of teacher codes of conduct

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These guidelines have been prepared by IIEP-UNESCO to help countries successfully design a teacher code of conduct (or review an existing one) and put in place the appropriate mechanisms to ensure its proper dissemination, application, and monitoring at all levels of the system. They are aimed both at national and local stakeholders. They follow the major steps involved in the development of a code. For more detailed information on each aspect of the guidelines, the reader is directed to the Resources and Tools that are included in annexes.

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