International Anti-Corruption Commitments

Title of the body

OECD Recommendation of the Council on Public Integrity

(https://www.oecd.org/gov/ethic...)

Issuing body

OECD

Brief description

The OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity provides policy makers with the blueprint for a public integrity strategy. It shifts the focus from ad hoc integrity policies to a comprehensive, risk-based approach with an emphasis on cultivating a culture of integrity across the whole of society. It is built on 3 pillars:

(1) Having a system in place to reduce opportunities for corrupt behaviour

(2) Changing a culture to make corruption unacceptable socially

(3) Making people accountable for their actions

Relevant excerpts

II.RECOMMENDS that Members and non-Members having adhered to this Recommendation (hereafter the “Adherents”) build a coherent and comprehensive public-integrity system. To this end, Adherents should:

1.Demonstrate commitment at the highest political and management levels within the public sector to enhance public integrity and reduce corruption, in particular through:

a)ensuring that the public integrity system defines, supports, controls and enforces public integrity, and is integrated into the wider public management and governance framework;

b)ensuring that the appropriate legislative and institutional frameworks are in place to enable public-sector organisations to take responsibility for effectively managing the integrity of their activities as well as that of the public officials who carry out those activities;

c)establishing clear expectations for the highest political and management levels that will support the public integrity system through exemplary personal behaviour, including its demonstration of a high standard of propriety in the discharge of official duties.

III.RECOMMENDS that Adherents cultivate a culture of public integrity. To this end, Adherents should:

5.Promote a whole-of-society culture of public integrity, partnering with the private sector, civil society, and individuals,