OECD Public Integrity Handbook
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The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity. The Handbook clarifies what the Recommendation’s thirteen principles mean in practice and identifies challenges in implementing them. The Handbook provides guidance on improving co-operation within government, as well between the national and subnational levels. To build cultures of integrity across government and society, the Handbook details the core elements of a merit-based human resource management system and the key ingredients of open organisational cultures. It also clarifies government’s role in providing guidance to companies, civil society and citizens on upholding public integrity values. Moreover, the Handbook unpacks how to use the risk management process to assess and manage integrity risks, and highlights how to use the enforcement system to ensure real accountability for integrity violations.
Enforcement
This chapter provides a commentary on the principle of enforcement contained within the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Public Integrity. It describes how enforcement mechanisms foster effective accountability, deter misconduct, and ensure compliance with public integrity standards. Supported by co-operation and exchange of information mechanisms at all levels, fairness, objectivity and timeliness are identified as key drivers for effective and transparent enforcement. In addition, the chapter addresses five commonly faced challenges related to enforcement: independence; lengthiness of procedures; complexity of procedures; fragmented collection of enforcement data; and publicity of enforcement data.
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