Improving Integrity of the Public Administration / IIPA

Project facts

Project promoter:
Government Office of the Slovak Republic(SK)
Project Number:
SK-GOVERNANCE-0001
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€1,498,890
Other Project Partners
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(FR)

Description

The project shall primarily focus on horizontal coordination in the public sector, targeting management of human resources in integrity.  The project shall include, inter alia, the following activities: 

  • An Integrity Review elaborated by the OECD, focused on strengthening the public integrity system, monitoring and evaluation;
  • A Pilot initiative on behavioural insights shall be carried out, implemented in specific areas identified through the Integrity Review; 
  • An opinion survey, containing questions related to experience and incidence of corrupt practices, tolerance vis-à-vis integrity violations, or questions related to the observed effectiveness of specific integrity policies;  
  • As part of the Review, the OECD will facilitate the development of an action plan to be co-drafted and implemented by the project promoter;
  • Codes of ethics and codes of conduct elaborated and implemented by the project promoter, in consultation with the OECD;  
  • Model sectoral anti-corruption programmes and methodological tools for the corruption risk management shall be developed by the project promoter;
  • Establishment and maintenance of a register of sensitive positions and processes in the public sector exposed to corruption and integrity violations shall be elaborated and maintained by the project promoter, in cooperation with the OECD;  
  • A set of indicators to measure various aspects of integrity of the civil administration, including corruption risk registers a risk scoring tool, shall be developed in cooperation with the OECD; 
  • Comprehensive capacity-building and awareness-raising activities on corruption prevention and the protection of whistle-blowers shall be carried out by the project promoter, based on the ongoing mapping of the Slovak legislation recently carried out by the OECD.

Contact person for the project is Mr.Štefan Urbánek -  stefan.urbanek@vlada.gov.sk.

 

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