good practice
toolkits and guidelines
ICAC New South Wales (Australia): Do-it-yourself Corruption Resistance Guide (2002)http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/index.cfm?objectID=581FB70B-D598-1B01-8775A43916B44810&NavID=24276998-D0B7-4CD6-F9D478C6A21599CF
This guide sets out benchmarks for key corruption resistance measures and lists resources that can help agencies achieve them. It identifies a number of corruption resistance topics that form part of the ICAC’s organisational integrity framework. Agencies can assess their level of achievement against a five-level scale for each topic. Depending on the outcome, they can take the suggested steps and use the relevant resources to improve their rating.
Model Initiatives Package on Public Ethics at the Local Level: Council of Europe (2004) http://www.minbzk.nl/contents/pages/7628/manueldebonnespratiquesread-only.pdf
Aimed at public servants, this handbook provides a collection of good practice models for the local level. In addition, it includes information on public ethics in Europe and examples of national initiatives.
OECD: Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector – A Toolkit (2003)http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2003doc.nsf/0/0fc741f6009c94b6c1256ddd005b2eff/$FILE/JT00153650.PDF
This toolkit, developed by the OECD’s Governance Division of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, provides techniques, resources and strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing conflict of interest cases. It also focuses on ways to increase integrity in public management decision-making. It builds on the OECD Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest. The toolkit is recommended for readers who are already acquainted with public sector ethics.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): Anti-Corruption Toolkit, 3rd Edition (2004) http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/corruption_toolkit.html
This resource provides a modular approach to a broad set of anti-corruption policies and measures, or "tools". It includes both theoretical approaches and their associated practical applications, with a variety of case studies. Chapter Four on Social Prevention focuses on education.
United Nations: Public Service Professional Ethics for Africa (Manual/CD-ROM) 2000 http://www.unpan.org/training-professionalism.asp
This CD Rom, based on the insights of practising professionals and scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures, provides hands-on training material on public sector ethics. It includes 11 case studies of ethical dilemmas (including nepotism and favouritism) that civil servants may be exposed to and must deal with on a regular basis. The CD Rom is in French only.
teaching and training material
A great number of private and public entities advise governments and public agencies in designing anti-corruption education strategies, offering ethics training and education. The following list includes only material developed by not-for-profit agencies that is already in the public domain.
Amnesty International (AI) Human Rights Education Materials
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/hre-resources-eng
AI has developed human rights education material for a variety of audiences. Teaching resources for educators, as well as train-the-trainer materials and guidelines for the teaching of law enforcement and government officials are available.
Centre for Applied Ethics, California
The Markkula Centre for Applied Ethics at Santa ClaraUniversity is a centre for research and dialogue on ethical issues in critical areas of American life. The centre has developed teaching material in the areas of character education and global and government ethics. It has a wealth of online resources relating to values education.
The Commonwealth Secretariat
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=39260&int1stParentNodeID=20639
The Commonwealth Secretariat promotes good democratic practice and works to strengthen democratic values and culture through the organisation of workshops, seminars and conferences, and the production and circulation of publications. Addressing issues such as accountability, scrutiny and oversight, elections and political finance, these publications can be used as teaching material.
Mexican Government Youth Zero Corruption Website
This colourful, interactive web page, set up by the Mexican Anti-Corruption Commission, provides advice to educators on how to deal with ethical issues and includes a wealth of teaching materials for teachers. It also appeals directly to young people, offering ethics games adapted to the reality of Mexican teenagers. The website is in Spanish only.
UN HABITAT Urban Governance Case Studies
http://hq.unhabitat.org/cdrom/TRANSPARENCY/html/casestudy/allcase.html
The UN HABITAT Urban Governance Toolkit includes 70 case studies from different countries that make excellent teaching material. The case studies illustrate the impact of corruption within the public sector and present potential solutions: from participatory assessments of corruption and ethics, to citizen participation in budgeting and expenditure monitoring.
United States Office of Governance Ethics (OGE)
http://www.usoge.gov/pages/comp_web_trng/comp_web_trng.html
In the United States, the Office of Government Ethics, based in the executive branch, aims to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of government employees, and to resolve those conflicts of interest that do occur. The OGE aims at achieving high ethical standards for employees and at strengthening the public's confidence that the government's business is conducted with impartiality and integrity. The website contains a number of ethics training resources on topics such as the acceptance of gifts.
World Bank Institute (WBI)
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/wbi/wbicatalogue.nsf/HomePage?OpenPage
The WBI's capacity building activities target a broad audience, including policy-makers, legislators, bureaucrats, members of the judiciary, parliaments, civil society and the media. A catalogue of training programmes can be accessed on this section of their website.
World Bank: Voices of the Poor. Can Anyone Hear Us?
http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/poverty/voices/reports.htm#cananyone
This book gathers the voices of over 40,000 poor women and men in 50 countries from the World Bank's participatory poverty assessments. Chapter Three on state institutions and corruption includes some dramatic examples of the effects of corruption on the poor, and is suitable teaching material for general awareness-raising.
World Bank: Youth for Good Governance Programme (2002)
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/WBIPROGRAMS/PSGLP/0,,contentMDK:20282819~menuPK:461615~pagePK:64156158~piPK:64152884~theSitePK:461606,00.htmlThis World Bank website provides an easy-to-read introduction to corruption. Topics include the definition, costs, causes and measurement of corruption, as well as means to fight corruption and the role of youth. An online course entitled “Youth for Good Governance”, consisting of nine modules, is also available for downloading in PDF format.
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