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.
risk management
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
Health Service Executive’s risk registers
This page provides risk management support tools, such as templates for risk management and risk assessment, risk registers, risk assessment training materials, tools and exercises.