The Report Card serves as a tool that enables civil society to monitor or assess compliance with a specific convention.

Over time, Transparency International (TI) has developed a methodology for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Antibribery Convention and another methodology in the field of public contracting and public integrity for the Interamerican Convention against Corruption (IACAC) and the United Nations Convention against Corruptión (UNCAC).

• Progress Report on the OECD Convention
• Report Card: Public contracting
• Report Card: Public Integrity

Transparency International (TI) views the Antibribery Convention of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a decisive step in the fight against corruption from the perspective of those who offer bribes. Despite the fact that many countries have already passed laws criminalising foreign bribery, there are still concerns about whether these countries are taking the necessary steps to implement the Convention.

The Report Card, first published in 2005, monitors the implementation of the Convention from the perspective of civil society. It is based on information collected from the National Chapters signatory countries to the Convention, including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Canada, the United States and Mexico.

The Chapters selected lawyers and other professionals as experts to respond to a questionnaire aimed at collecting information on cases and investigations of foreign bribery. The exercise analysed whether the countries had taken any steps to promote compliance with the Convention and investigated the current situation and the prospects for future enforcement of laws against foreign bribery.

• Report Card 2008
• Report Card 2007
• Report Card 2006
• Report Card 2005

Public Contracting

All Latin American countries have adopted the Interamerican Convention against Corruption and some of them have signed the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Based on the benchmark provided by the public contracting and public procurement provisions contained in these conventions, Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean and TI’s Public Contracting Global Programme carried out a study that provides an overview of the status of public contracting in Latin America. This study seeks to answer the following questions:

• To what extent have Latin American countries complied with their objectives regarding public contracting?
• How transparent are public contracting systems in Latin America?
• What corruption risks do these countries face?
• What measures need to be implemented in order to prevent those risks?

The answers to these questions may serve as a useful guidance to identify the measures that should be implemented to prevent those risks.

• Click here to read the regional Report
• Country reports: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.

Public Integrity in Latin America: Does the Latin American legal framework contribute to the integrity of public officers? In practice, are those laws effectively applied?

Promoting public integrity is a common objective shared by countries and the international community as a whole. It is also fundamental for the correct management of public affairs and resources as well as for corruption prevention.

The Interamerican Convention against Corruption and the United Nations Convention against Corruption provide that each country must make a commitment to set rules that public officers must observe in order to prevent conflicts of interest; devise systems to identify violations —such as net worth statements and mechanisms to file complaints; create agencies which coordinate policies to fight corruption; mechanisms to ensure transparency in public officers’ actions and systems for internal and external control, among other duties.

On the basis of those conventions a study was conducted in 9 countries that sought to assess the regulations to prevent conflicts of interest, the systems for submission of net worth statements by public officers and the mechanisms to file complaints and protect complainants. This was done by analyzing the existing regulations on these matters, the perceived level of implementation and the availability of supporting statistics.

• Click here to read the original report.
• Country reports: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.