International Symposium on Excellence in Public Service / Public Administration

1. by ACRC
(Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, Republic of Korea)

2. 1. Concept and Background
Lord Kelvin (British physicist)
Concept of Integrity Assessment
An innovative initiative to encourage public institutions
to engage in voluntary efforts to prevent corruption
by regularly assessing and disclosing
the integrity levels at public institutions
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3. 1. Concept and Background
Background
Initiative Integrity Assessment
Implement
preventive measures
for corruption-causing
factors
Reactive approach
based on
crackdown
and punishment
Efficiency
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Introduce scientific
assessment model
Limits of
conventional
corruption
assessment models
Accuracy
Promote citizens’
rights to know
and participation
Growing
public awareness
about corruption
issues
Transparency
Solutions
Problems
Values

4. 2. Objectives and Features
Understand trends in corruption levels
of public organizations
Identify corruption-prone areas
in the public sector and root causes
of corruption
Encourage public institutions
to engage in voluntary anti-corruption efforts
Provide basic data for devising government-wide
anti-corruption strategies
Objectives
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5. 2. Objectives and Features
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Areas to be assessed Persons to be surveyed
Survey questions
Individual organizations
and their specific tasks
First-hand service users
and internal staff of
public organizations
Personal perception
of corruption & actual
experience with corrupt
practices
(offering of money, gifts,
entertainment or favors)
Features
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6. A++
Data sources Assessment results
Phone or online
surveys & statistics
on the public
officials punished
for corrupt acts
Disclosed to relevant
organizations and
the media
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2. Objectives and Features
Features

7. 3. History of development
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1999-2001 2002 2007 2008 2012 2013
Developed,
tested &
improved
the integrity
assessment
model
Officially
conducted
the 1st
assessment
(71 organizations,
348 lines of work,
about 30,000
people)
Introduced
internal
integrity
assessment
methods
Revamped the
assessment
model (to the
current system)
Conducted
the 11th
assessment
(627
organizations,
2,507 lines of
work, about
240,000
people)
To conduct
the 12th
assessment
(653
organizations,
2,628 lines of
work, about
240,000
people)

8. 4. Assessment Model Structure
Integrity Assessment Model (2013)
(Deducted)
How transparently and accountably public officials
carry out duties without committing corruption
Levels of corruption in managerial activities,
institutional practices and organizational culture
Levels of corruption in the processes
of determining and executing policies
Statistics on employees punished for their corruption
or corruption cases reported in media
External
integrity
Internal
integrity
Policy
customer
evaluation
Cases of
Corruption
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9. 5. Effectiveness
Provide accurate information on the current status of corruption
Reliable data is collected by surveying some 240,000 people
Provide an effective tool to encourage voluntary anti-corruption efforts
Analysis of corruption-prone areas in each public organization
Raise public awareness about corruption in the public sector
Results are disclosed though the media to raise the issue of corruption
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10. Low integrity, no promotion
Gyeonggi provincial governments
trying hard to enhance integrity
scores Local governments to take drastic
measures to come out on the
bottom in the Integrity Index
5. Effectiveness
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11. 6.43
Integrity levels have continued to improve in the public sector
7.71
8.38 8.68 8.77 8.89
8.20 8.51 8.44 8.43
4.1
3.5
1.5
0.9
Comprehensive Integrity (points)
Offering entertainment (%)
Offering money / gifts (%)
Offering money / gifts / entertainment (%)
0.7 0.5 0.6
0.3 0.5 0.4
0.5 0.3 0.4 0.3
7.86
0.5
0.4
2012
6. Achievements
Integrity Index and rate of offering money, gifts and entertainment to public officials
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013
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*Time series interrupted in 2012 due to modification of the model
7.86
0.29
0.25

12. in the category of Preventing &
Combating Corruption
at the UN Headquarters in New York
on June 25, 2012.
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7. International Recognition & Technical Assistance
Winner of 2012 UN Public Service Awards

13. Contact Information
Mr. Dong Hyun Kim
Deputy Director, Anti-Corruption Survey & Evaluation Division
Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission
Republic of Korea
Tel: 82-2-360-6548
Fax: 82-2-360-3547
E-mail: kimdhyun@korea.kr