Detailed Activities
1. Training, Education and Capacity Building
The Corruption Prevention Section assists public and private sector organizations to prevent corruption through providing a range of training, education and capacity building initiatives. Training and education focuses on enhancing knowledge, competences and skills amongst staff in client organizations on corruption issues and to enable them effectively undertake or mainstream corruption prevention measures in the work place. The Corruption Prevention Section offers a variety of workshops and training initiatives targeting senior managers, middle managers and other specialist staff. The initiatives among other issues aim to raise awareness of corruption, its causes, and impact on the organization and strategies that can be employed to detect and prevent corruption. The Corruption Prevention Section also undertakes capacity building initiatives which can also be tailor-made to meet specific needs of the client organization. The training and education initiatives are undertaken either following requests from a client institution or through the section initiating contacts with target organizations.
2. Development of Policy Frameworks
The Corruption Prevention Section works with Public and Private Organizations to support and help to facilitate development and implementation of corruption and fraud prevention policies to serve as a framework within which corruption prevention initiatives can be mainstreamed in the workplace. The Policies among other issues establishes an organization’s position on corruption and fraud and hence positions it to better participate in the fight against corruption. The section also assists institutions to develop other tools such as Codes of ethics. The section also works with service providing organizations to support development and implementation of client service charters as a tool for improving service delivery standards and accountability levels.
3. Institutional Inquires
The corruption prevention section undertakes investigations but with a broader focus. The Investigations done by the Corruption Prevention Section which are referred to as inquiries focuses on factors that allowed the corruption to occur in the first place and also evaluates the weaknesses within the organizational systems and make recommendations to reduce the probability of recurrence. Institutional inquiries are mostly undertaken in response to complaints that have been made to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
4. Institutional Audits
The Corruption Prevention Section undertakes reviews of systems and procedures in organizations in both the public and private sectors. Such reviews are either initiated by the Anti-Corruption Bureau or are undertaken following complaints or reports that raise problems with systems and procedures. The reviews which are initiated by the Bureau are done using a facilitative approach in which key staff from the target organization are involved in the process of reviewing the systems and procedures. The system and procedures reviews can also be done on request by a client organization. The Corruption Prevention Section does also undertakes compliance audits or spot-checks in selected activities mainly of national importance such as examinations to audit compliance with established systems and procedures by personnel charged with the responsibility of undertaking such activities and also to assess performance and effectiveness of the systems and procedures in countering the threat of corruption and fraud.
5. Follow up Exercises
Effective implementation of recommendations by target organizations stemming from an institutional inquiry or an audit or any other exercise is enforced through follow up exercises. The Corruption Prevention Section tracks the recommended changes made to the target organizations t verify compliance and measure impact. Follow up exercise are also done to monitor implementation of policies and other initiatives designed to address corruption.
6. Advisory and support services
The Corruption Prevention section advises public and private institutions among other things on elements of the organization that may contribute to corruption such as systems (including policies and procedures), organizational structure and also advice on corruption detection. Advice is provided during investigations, corruption prevention in which officers analyze the organization for weaknesses and make recommendations. The Investigations Section may sometimes refer matters to the Corruption Prevention Section where corrupt behavior is not established but there appears to be a vulnerability to corruption. Alternatively Organizations can also contact us for advice on reducing the risk of corruption. The section also provides advice and technical support to assist institutions who want to implement the National Anti-Corruption strategy.
7. Research
The Corruption Prevention Section conducts research into corruption and related issues for purposes of understanding the problem of corruption and also to better inform efforts to reduce corruption so that interventions and initiatives that are undertaken are tailored to effectively respond to the nature of the problem of corruption. Such research activities are either national exercises or small scale research exercises which specifically focus on a specific issue, sector or problem.
