The document discusses corruption in the global construction sector, which is estimated to cost up to a third of the sector's $12 trillion value by 2020. Corruption ranges from overbilling to bribery and affects both developing and developed countries. To curb corruption, the document recommends strengthening oversight of public procurement and infrastructure projects from project selection through implementation. This includes performance audits to verify project delivery and preventing undue political influence. Parliamentarians are urged to establish frameworks for integrity and accountability across the entire project cycle.
Presentation made at the OECD Workshop “Joint Learning for an OECD Trust Strategy” on 14 October 2013 by the OECD's Marco Mira d’Ercole, head of the Household Statistics and Progress Measurement Division in the Statistics Directorate.
Presentation by Frédérique Six at the OECD Workshop on “Joint Learning for an OECD Trust Strategy” on 14 October 2013. Mr. Six discusses effective regulation, the trust triangle, compliance and a trust regime.
High-quality public infrastructure supports growth, improves well-being and generates jobs. Yet, infrastructure investment
is complex, and getting from conception to construction and operation is a long road fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.
Poor governance is a major reason why infrastructure projects often fail to meet their time-frame, budget, and service delivery
objectives. This booklet outlines how governments can get infrastructure right. For further information see www.oecd.org/gov
Disclaimer! This paper is in work in progress. Contact the authors for more information.
Abstract
The interactions between minimum wage policy and tax evasion remain largely unknown. We study firm-level employment effects of a large and biting minimum wage increase in Latvia conditional on labor tax compliance. The Latvian labor market is characterized by the prevalence of envelope wages, i.e., unreported cash-in-hand complements to the official wage. We apply machine learning to classify firms between compliant and tax-evading using a unique combination of administrative and survey data. We then show that firms engaged in labor tax evasion are insensitive to the minimum wage shock. Our results suggest that these firms use wage underreporting as an adjustment margin, converting (part of ) the envelope into legal wage. Increasing minimum wage contributes to tax rule enforcement, but this comes at the cost of negative employment consequences for compliant firms.
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Presentation make by Prof. Geneviève Cartier - Commission of Inquiry on the Awarding and Management of Public Contracts in the Construction Industry - at the 2nd OECD Forum on Governance of Infrastructure, Paris, 20th March 2017. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/oecd-forum-on-governance-of-infrastructure-2017.htm
Presentation made at the OECD Workshop “Joint Learning for an OECD Trust Strategy” on 14 October 2013 by the OECD's Marco Mira d’Ercole, head of the Household Statistics and Progress Measurement Division in the Statistics Directorate.
Presentation by Frédérique Six at the OECD Workshop on “Joint Learning for an OECD Trust Strategy” on 14 October 2013. Mr. Six discusses effective regulation, the trust triangle, compliance and a trust regime.
High-quality public infrastructure supports growth, improves well-being and generates jobs. Yet, infrastructure investment
is complex, and getting from conception to construction and operation is a long road fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.
Poor governance is a major reason why infrastructure projects often fail to meet their time-frame, budget, and service delivery
objectives. This booklet outlines how governments can get infrastructure right. For further information see www.oecd.org/gov
Disclaimer! This paper is in work in progress. Contact the authors for more information.
Abstract
The interactions between minimum wage policy and tax evasion remain largely unknown. We study firm-level employment effects of a large and biting minimum wage increase in Latvia conditional on labor tax compliance. The Latvian labor market is characterized by the prevalence of envelope wages, i.e., unreported cash-in-hand complements to the official wage. We apply machine learning to classify firms between compliant and tax-evading using a unique combination of administrative and survey data. We then show that firms engaged in labor tax evasion are insensitive to the minimum wage shock. Our results suggest that these firms use wage underreporting as an adjustment margin, converting (part of ) the envelope into legal wage. Increasing minimum wage contributes to tax rule enforcement, but this comes at the cost of negative employment consequences for compliant firms.
Making Infrastructure Deliver - Lessons from QuebecOECD Governance
Presentation make by Prof. Geneviève Cartier - Commission of Inquiry on the Awarding and Management of Public Contracts in the Construction Industry - at the 2nd OECD Forum on Governance of Infrastructure, Paris, 20th March 2017. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/oecd-forum-on-governance-of-infrastructure-2017.htm
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Presentation make by Iain BEGG, European Institute at the 2nd OECD Forum on Governance of Infrastructure, Paris, 20th March 2017. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/oecd-forum-on-governance-of-infrastructure-2017.htm
Asian Election Stakeholder Forum III (AESF III)
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The rapid rise of online political campaigning has made most political financing regulations obsolete, putting transparency and accountability at risk. Seven in 10 countries worldwide do not have any specific limits on online spending on election campaigns, with six out of 10 not having any restrictions on online political advertising at all.
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المحاضرة ال 144 من المبادرة
أ. د. / أكرم حسن
استاذ إدارة المشاريع
بعنوان
"اسباب الفساد بالمشاريع الهندسية"
وذلك يوم الإثنين 10 يناير2022
السابعة والنصف مساء توقيت القاهرة
الثامنة والنصف مساء توقيت مكة المكرمة
و الحضور من تطبيق زووم من خلال الرابط
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-Ggqz0pH9xJND8m-lpanZ1df954nf9u
علما ان هناك بث مباشر للمحاضرة على القنوات الخاصة بجمعية المهندسين المصريين
ونأمل أن نوفق في تقديم ما ينفع المهندس ومهمة الهندسة في عالمنا العربي
والله الموفق
للتواصل مع إدارة المبادرة عبر قناة التليجرام
https://t.me/EEAKSA
ومتابعة المبادرة والبث المباشر عبر نوافذنا المختلفة
رابط اللينكدان والمكتبة الالكترونية
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eeaksa-egyptian-engineers-association/
رابط قناة التويتر
https://twitter.com/eeaksa
رابط قناة الفيسبوك
https://www.facebook.com/EEAKSA
رابط قناة اليوتيوب
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEAchannal
رابط التسجيل العام للمحاضرات
https://forms.gle/vVmw7L187tiATRPw9
ملحوظة : توجد شهادات حضور مجانية لمن يسجل فى رابط التقيم اخر المحاضرة
Anti Corruption Actions:
-Individual Engineers in construction Sector
-Professional Engineering Institutions
-Government in Construction Industry
-Organizations in Construction Industry
Crowding in private financing to support a public vision for infrastructureOECD Governance
Presentation make by Iain BEGG, European Institute at the 2nd OECD Forum on Governance of Infrastructure, Paris, 20th March 2017. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/oecd-forum-on-governance-of-infrastructure-2017.htm
Asian Election Stakeholder Forum III (AESF III)
August 22 – 26, 2016
Bali, Indonesia
"Transparency & integrity for Quality Elections"
General Election Commission Republic of Indonesia
and
General Election Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL)
Presentation of Alex Matheson, International consultor an Associate of the Economics and Strategy Group (ESG), in the "I International Seminar on Strategic Management in the Public Sector" in Ceplan, Perú
The rapid rise of online political campaigning has made most political financing regulations obsolete, putting transparency and accountability at risk. Seven in 10 countries worldwide do not have any specific limits on online spending on election campaigns, with six out of 10 not having any restrictions on online political advertising at all.
Electoral System in 2025: Diagnosis and Change PrinciplesMarcin Senderski
Democracy’s image is becoming increasingly impaired. Its deterioration is proportional to the descending credibility of the top politicians. Thus, the rationale behind the assumptions to the newly developed electoral system should be to reinforce democracy’s rating by promoting more effective decision-makers and more transparent forms of government. This diagnosis, along with the assumption that society behaves rationally, underlies my forecast on how the electoral system may evolve in forthcoming years and how to address key challenges of contemporary democracy.
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This Discussion Paper was released at the Digital Summit in Tallin, Estonia on 15-16th October 2018.
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144
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#تواصل_تطوير
المحاضرة ال 144 من المبادرة
أ. د. / أكرم حسن
استاذ إدارة المشاريع
بعنوان
"اسباب الفساد بالمشاريع الهندسية"
وذلك يوم الإثنين 10 يناير2022
السابعة والنصف مساء توقيت القاهرة
الثامنة والنصف مساء توقيت مكة المكرمة
و الحضور من تطبيق زووم من خلال الرابط
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-Ggqz0pH9xJND8m-lpanZ1df954nf9u
علما ان هناك بث مباشر للمحاضرة على القنوات الخاصة بجمعية المهندسين المصريين
ونأمل أن نوفق في تقديم ما ينفع المهندس ومهمة الهندسة في عالمنا العربي
والله الموفق
للتواصل مع إدارة المبادرة عبر قناة التليجرام
https://t.me/EEAKSA
ومتابعة المبادرة والبث المباشر عبر نوافذنا المختلفة
رابط اللينكدان والمكتبة الالكترونية
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eeaksa-egyptian-engineers-association/
رابط قناة التويتر
https://twitter.com/eeaksa
رابط قناة الفيسبوك
https://www.facebook.com/EEAKSA
رابط قناة اليوتيوب
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEAchannal
رابط التسجيل العام للمحاضرات
https://forms.gle/vVmw7L187tiATRPw9
ملحوظة : توجد شهادات حضور مجانية لمن يسجل فى رابط التقيم اخر المحاضرة
Anti Corruption Actions:
-Individual Engineers in construction Sector
-Professional Engineering Institutions
-Government in Construction Industry
-Organizations in Construction Industry
Combating corruption and public financial management (PFM)John Leonardo
Corruption has a highly damaging effect on many developing countries. We define corruption, provide examples of public sector corruption and examine its effects (and the costs). We look at the relationship between public financial management (PFM) and corruption and present actions to combat corruption. We also discuss the role of development partners in assisting PFM reforms.
OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity - 26 January 2017 OECD Governance
The OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity provides policy makers with the blueprint for a public integrity strategy.
It shifts the focus from ad hoc integrity policies to a comprehensive, risk-based approach with an emphasis on cultivating a culture of integrity across the whole of society. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/ethics/recommendation-public-integrity.htm
ICT-driven initiatives, the majority of which stem from civil society, play an increasing role in governance. There are numerous opportunities for development agencies to fund related projects and programs.
From May 2008 ICGFM Conference, Business in Partnership Against Corruption, How Can Multilateral Development Banks Partner with Governments, Private Sectors and Civil Societies to Improve Transparency and Accountability in Procurement
, Asha Ayoung, Lead Procurement Specialist, World Bank
Assessing an Enabling Environment for Open Local Contracting in Fako Divisionijtsrd
Open Contracting has become part of public financial management the government uses to generate revenues through the issuance of licenses to operate public services, and in the sale of public property. As one of the measures in which the government spends its money, all levels of government whether at the national or at the local levels enter into contracts to deliver goods, works, and services to citizens. These public contracts are given to all economic sectors and agreements are made ranging from the small procurement of goods to large capital spending for development of major infrastructural projects to take place. However, public contracting has been identified as the government activity in the advanced and less advanced countries most vulnerable to wastefulness, mismanagement, inefficiency, and corruption oftentimes, the governments dishes out little or no information about a the planning of public contracts, b how public contracts are formed e.g. whether by negotiation or through a competitive tender process c the content of the agreements d the progress of their performance or e the relevant government oversight mechanisms. This lack of information can make it difficult for civil society - and sometimes even for auditors and parliaments - to assess whether the government is getting good value for money or whether the parties to the contract are fully complying with their obligations. Agnes Nanyongo Mbua Ndumbe "Assessing an Enabling Environment for Open Local Contracting in Fako Division" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd47651.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/47651/assessing-an-enabling-environment-for-open-local-contracting-in-fako-division/agnes-nanyongo-mbua-ndumbe
7th OECD Regional Policy Network Meeting on Sustainable Infrastructure - Mr. Luca Fontana, Director, Engineering and Construction Business Unit, Autostrade per l’Italia
2014 Anti-Corruption Public Procurement guideDr Lendy Spires
This guide provides a basic introduction for government officials, civil society groups and the private sector on eliminating corruption risks in public procurement. It is intended to inform and guide participants in public procurement, as well as civil society groups, on what can be done to strengthen the procurement process against corruption and its damaging effects.
Procurement is a complicated and sometimes opaque process, through which a large, if not the largest, percentage of public money is spent. Worldwide, procurement spending averages between 13 per cent and 20 per cent of gross domestic product. Every year an estimated average of US$9.5 trillion of public money is spent by governments through public procurement. With such vast sums at stake, few government activities create greater temptations or offer more opportunities for corruption than public sector procurement.
Corruption in public procurement means public funds are wasted on an enormous scale, and the benefits these funds should have brought are lost. Taxpayers’ money to pay for hospital equipment, books for schools or safer roads, for example, ends up sitting in the pockets of the corrupt. The European Commission calculated that in the Member States around €120 billion3 (around US$163 billion) is lost each year to corruption – only marginally less than the European Union’s total annual budget.
1. Position Paper
Building on Sand: The importance of oversight in
fighting corruption within the construction sector
“The value of global construction is expected to grow to $12 trillion by 2020, but it is estimated that
up to a third of this investment could be lost through corruption, mismanagement and inefficiency.”
Construction Sector Transparency Initiative
The construction sector is both a catalyst for and a driver of development. It is also one of the most corrupt sectors
in the global economy—Transparency International estimates that between 10 and 30 per cent of funds invested
in public infrastructure projects are lost to corruption.1
Corruption in the construction sector ranges from billing for higher-grade materials not actually used to offering
bribes to gain lucrative contracts. The costs of corruption to tax payers are sufficiently high that efforts at curbing
them can often pay for themselves.
It is a phenomenon that knows no boundaries and affects countries regardless of their economic status. As
exemplified in India, not only is there a linkage between corruption and regulation; there is a linkage between
election cycles and liquidity in the construction sector, which suggests a link between political corruption and the
construction sector.2
Meanwhile, in Canada, public safety officials have raised the alarm about the “moderate to
high risk of corruption and organized criminal activity”3
in the construction sector.
Steps should be taken to eliminate opportunities for corruption and organized crime to undermine the potential
benefits of public investments in infrastructure. Parliamentarians have an important role to play—they are the
gatekeepers responsible for building the frameworks for integrity and providing oversight of public investments
in infrastructure.
Understandingthevitalimportanceoftheconstructionsectorinpublicservicedeliveryandeconomicdevelopment,
GOPAC encourages parliamentarians from all political stripes to take a firm stand on ensuring integrity in public
procurement and preventing the reach of organized crime.
Volume 1, Issue 7 - April 2015
2. Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption
Procurement and Project Controls
Controls, when in place, can significantly reduce the opportunities for
corruption. Controls can be financial or non-financial in nature. Common to
any effective control is the ability to deter corrupt behaviour at key decision
points along an approvals process.
One common control is a well-designed public procurement framework that
aims to prevent corruption by providing reference points or “check points”
to facilitate investigations when something is suspected to have gone wrong.
Combining a well-designed framework with audits and protocols that reach
beyond procurement supports transparent project implementation.
Parliamentarians do not provide direct oversight of procurement processes
and projects; however, they are responsible for ensuring that reliable controls
are in place. Parliamentarians should make themselves aware of the range of
controls that exist, the best practices available, and the potential strengths and
weaknesses of each in providing oversight of public infrastructure projects.
Beyond the Financial Audit
Financial audits are necessary but not sufficient. The complexity of
construction projects and the potential for corruption schemes to go
unnoticed, without a deeper scrutiny of the physical deliverables, warrants
more stringent standards of accountability. Performance audits are technical
audits conducted by qualified construction or engineering professionals
trained in the art of cross-verification between financial reporting and
physical reality. They provide improved cross-verifiable data with which
parliamentarians can fulfill their oversight role.
Many jurisdictions do not mandate performance audits nor maintain a
ready pool of qualified technical auditors. In these cases, they would need
a regulatory framework to set the foundation for training and establish
professional standards. Parliamentarians are responsible for developing the
legislation to clear the path for such regulatory measures.
Project Cycle: What to Oversee and When?
Oversight of public infrastructure projects does not begin and end with
procurementnorisitsufficienttofocusexclusivelyonprojectimplementation;
a complete project cycle approach which considers the planning and
implementation phases is necessary. In the planning stages, corruption
can result in a faulty needs assessments and budgeting for unnecessary
infrastructure investments. Therefore, safeguards against corruption need
to be in place prior to the beginning of the formal procurement process.
Recommended Resources
• Curbing Corruption in
Public Procurement: A
Practical Guide http://www.
transparency.org/whatwedo/
pub/curbing_corruption_
in_public_procurement_a_
practical_guide
• Global Infrastructure Anti-
Corruption Centre (GIACC)
http://www.giaccentre.org
• Construction Sector
Transparency (CoST)
Initiative http://www.
constructiontransparency.org/
home
• Integrity Pacts – Transparency
International http://www.
transparency.org/whatwedo/
tools/integrity_pacts/4/
• Guidance Note 6:
Designing a Disclosure
Process http://www.
constructiontransparency.
org/documentdownload.
axd?documentresourceid=31
• Position Paper: Improving
Oversight in the Management
of Development Aid http://
gopacnetwork.org/Docs/
PositionPapers/PP_GTFPO_
EN_WEB.pdf
3. Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against CorruptionReferences
1. Transparency International
(2005), ‘Global Corruption
Report 2005’, Transparency
International, Berlin
2. http://www.cgdev.org/
files/1425795_file_Kapur_
Vaishnav_election_finance_
India_FINAL.pdf
3. Public Safety Canada:
Organized Crime Research
Brief no. 27
4. http://www.fintrac.gc.ca/
publications/brochure/06-
2008/1-eng.asp
To implement large infrastructure projects, governments are increasingly
relying on public-private partnerships (PPPs). PPPs can be especially
susceptible to corruption because the complexity of relationships between
the parties can lead to “conflicts of interest” and influence meddling. This is
especially true in municipalities where regulatory frameworks do not exist,
or are not enforced. During the implementation phase corrupt actions could
include modifying deadlines, through alterations to building requirements
andthereforecontractualterms,tointentionallyavoidpayingheftypenalties.
To reduce the risk of corruption in infrastructure projects parliamentarians
must focus on oversight from project selection, design, financing,
procurement all the way to implementation.
Building Elections, Developing Governance
The connection between corruption and election financing has been
well documented yet election financing often remains under-regulated.
The political economy of elections—election financing—is vulnerable to influence by organized crime. In the
construction sector, organized crime and other corrupting forces can attempt to circumvent their crimes by
currying favour with elected officials.
To inoculate against the perception of corruption, and to reduce potential for conflicts of interest politically exposed
persons (PEPs)4
should not be involved in making decisions regarding investments in public infrastructure.
Parliamentarians should avoid even the perception of influence while providing oversight of public investments in
infrastructure. Strong codes of conduct and ethics are instrumental in avoiding conflicts of interest.
Improvements in governance can reduce the risk of losses to corruption. For this reason, projects financed
through international aid programs and loans from multilateral banks include measures intended to prevent
“losses”; however, when political influence or PEPs gain high-level access, corruption can often go undetected.
Due diligence, on the part of financial institutions and donor agencies, compliments the oversight provided by
parliamentarians and civil society groups. Donor agencies should work collaboratively with parliamentarians to
assure all sources of funding for infrastructure are accountable to parliamentary oversight mechanisms.
A Perspective from Ukraine: Confronting the Influence of High-Level Access and PEPs
Parliamentary control, if professionally executed jointly with investigative journalists and civil society, can
trigger an appropriate response from law enforcement agencies to revelations of corruption in the construction
sector. In Ukraine, systemic interventions on the part of a few parliamentarians into the causes of corruption
in public procurement helped to prevent millions of dollars from being syphoned out of the state budget.
Moreover, parliamentary control helped to highlight corruption loopholes in existing public finance legislation.
Parliamentarians were also involved in drafting adequate legislative changes for closing those loopholes. Even in
countries where private interests have tended to influence government decision making, a few parliamentarians,
when focused on the issues of public finance, including public contracts in construction, can effect long-term,
systemic, and irrevocable changes.
4. Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption
GOPAC, Global Secretariat
904-255 Albert Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6A9
Tel: +1-613-336-3164
Fax: +1-613-421-7061
GOPAC is a worldwide alliance of parliamentarians working together to combat
corruption, strengthen good government, and uphold the rule of law. Based in Ottawa,
Canada, GOPAC has 50 national chapters on 6 continents. GOPAC supports its
members’ efforts through original research, global anti corruption capacity building,
and international peer support.
Recommendations
• Draft legislation and review regulatory measure to set the foundations
for performance audits of large and small public infrastructure projects.
• Draft and support legislation that facilitates the work of law enforcement
agencies in preventing infiltration of organized crime into the
construction sector.
• Support the work of initiatives like Transparency International’s Integrity
Pacts in Public Procurement and the Construction Sector Transparency
Initiative.
• Approach oversight of public infrastructure investments from a project
cycle perspective that includes risks of corruption in project selection,
design, financing, procurement and implementation.
• Identify the areas of risk that require stronger controls and anti-corruption measures to increase the overall
integrity of public investments in infrastructure.
• Support reforms that strengthen international best practice in procurement, i.e. organizational and project
controls aimed at increasing transparency and facilitating oversight.
• Put in practice the spirit, not only the text, of parliamentary codes of ethics and conduct and avoid even the
perception of conflicts of interests.
• Draft and support legislation that tightens and strengthens the rules surrounding the financing (in particular,
corporate and union sources) of political campaigns and parties during elections.
• In countries that receive donor funds for public infrastructure, parliamentarians should push for those funds
to be included in the national budget to assure greater accountability.
• Ensure that periodic progress reports on donor-funded infrastructure projects are tabled before parliament in
the same manner government-funded projects are reported on.
Bribery, fraud, cartels and other corrupt practices in relation to the design, financing, procurement and implementation of construction
projects can result in higher prices, inappropriate projects, and safety and quality issues, all of which contribute to lower levels of
development and increased poverty. GIACC joins GOPAC in urging all parliamentarians worldwide to ensure that corruption and its
consequences are minimised by the implementation of better controls and greater transparency on construction projects in their countries.
Neill Stansbury, Catherine Stansbury
Co-founders and Directors , Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC)
Parliamentarians have a responsibility to ensure that there is effective oversight at each stage of public infrastructure projects. GOPAC has
outlined a number of measures that contribute towards greater transparency and accountability and help to reduce the risk of corruption
and mismanagement in infrastructure investment. CoST urges all parliamentarians to persuade their respective Governments to adopt
these measures that can help deliver better value infrastructure for their electorates.
John Hawkins
Program Manager, Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST)
gopacnetwork.org twitter.com/GOPAC_Engfacebook.com/gopacnetwork
This position paper was co-authored by
GOPAC Program Directors Jean Pierre
Chabot and Dr Lesley Burns, with the
support of the members of GOPAC’s
Parliamentary Oversight Global Task
Force (GTF-PO).
Special thanks to Daria Kaleniuk,
Executive Director of the Anti-
Corruption Action Centre and
liaison for GOPAC Ukraine, for her
contribution of A Perspective from
Ukraine.
For more information on this position
paper or GTF-PO, please contact: info@
gopacnetwork.org.