Topic Guide: Corruption in Water and Sanitation Sector

Water management institutions need adequate human, financial, technical and administrative resources to fulfil their mandate, including a professional and qualified workforce. Measures promoting transparency and integrity in employee appointment and job promotion constitute a first step to addressing corruption challenges in the sector’s human resource management. This involves promoting merit-based appointments, compensation, promotion and transfer management systems and raising ethical standards through the introduction of codes of conduct, business principles and ethical training. The professionalism of the sector’s workforce can also be strengthened through adequate remuneration to attract and retain qualified staff and on-the-job training and capacity building measures, including ethical training and awareness raising activities on the causes and consequences of corruption and measures to address it in the sector.[1]