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Measuring corruption: ‘The basics’ By Marie Laberge UNDP Oslo Governance Centre

Measuring corruption: ‘The basics’ By Marie Laberge UNDP Oslo Governance Centre. What challenges are involved in measuring corruption ? What challenges matter the most in the Tajik context?. Choosing appropriate assessment methods can go a long way towards mitigating these challenges. .

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Measuring corruption: ‘The basics’ By Marie Laberge UNDP Oslo Governance Centre

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  1. Measuring corruption: ‘The basics’By Marie LabergeUNDP Oslo Governance Centre

  2. What challenges are involved in measuring corruption? What challenges matter the most in the Tajik context? Choosing appropriate assessment methods can go a long way towards mitigating these challenges.

  3. Why measure corruption risks? Corruption is usually performed ’in the dark’, ’in the shadows’, where it rarely can be observed directly Therefore easier to focus on potential ’risk areas’ and collect evidence about vulnerability to corruption (’red flag indicators’) In other words, it’s easier to measure the ’opposite’ of corruption, i.e. the effectiveness of anti-corruption mechanisms (and more useful to monitor the effectiveness of the ’remedy’ than to monitor the seriousness of the ’cancer’)

  4. Complementarity of indicators

  5. Exercise: Combining input (’in law’) indicators with impact (’in practice’) indicators to assess integrity in the civil service

  6. Two types of ‘tools’ for diagnosing and measuring corruption risks 1) Internal tools • Purpose: To identify institutional factors that enable corruption: leadership, institutional culture & incentives, internal procedures, regulations, enforcement mechanisms, transparency of operations • Sources of info: Water utility staff, experts, review of internal documents (procedural manuals, budgets, procurement documents) • Example: ’Vulnerability assessment’

  7. Two types of ‘tools’ for diagnosing and measuring corruption risks 2. External tools • Purpose: To validate the corruption risks identified by ’experts’ (by adding a ’water user perspective’) • Sources of info: water consumers, water utility, contractors, civil society, business community • Examples: Corruption surveys, participatory corruption apparaisals

  8. Research methods (for collecting information) Qualitative approaches (document review, interviews, focus groups, observation) are better at describing and explaining situations Quantitative approaches (questionnaires) are better at measuring Used together, they provide a richer understanding of a situation

  9. What kind of data collection methods can you think of? What are their strengths and weaknesses?

  10. Research methods (for collecting information) • Surveys • Interviews • Focus groups • Observation • Field tests • Analysis of documents

  11. 1. Surveys

  12. 2. Interviews

  13. 3. Focus groups

  14. 4. Observation

  15. 5. Field tests

  16. 6. Analysis of documents

  17. Triangulation, a means to ‘verify’ information The same topic is discussed with different groups of people An issue is analyzed by the same group of people, but using different methods The same group analyzes the issue at different points in time Results from the analysis carried out by one group are shared for discussion with another group Results of the study are shared with the community at the end to ’validate’ the findings

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