Infrastructure transparency guidance note / E-procurement and COVID recovery / Tools for reducing corruption

Improving infrastructure transparency, participation and accountability during a crisis (Guidance Note). “This Guidance Note outlines how to prioritise and fast-track the implementation of one or more of the four core features of the CoST approach, without necessarily becoming part of a recognised CoST programme. Such an approach will not only help reduce risks associated with the procurement of public infrastructure during a crisis and its aftermath, but also lay the foundations for more lasting reforms.”

CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Crisis-Guidance-Final.pdf  

 

Solutions in Not So Short Supply: E-Procurement and COVID-19 Recovery (Blog).  “Digitally automating key steps in the procurement process can make public transactions more ‘auditable’ and reduce the discretionary power of bureaucrats and public officials, which otherwise might breed petty corruption and kickbacks.”

Elise Blackburn/Transparency and Accountability Initiative: https://www.transparency-initiative.org/blog/7405/e-procurement-and-covid-19-recovery/        

 

Five tools for reducing corruption during COVID-19 (Blog).  “there are evidence-based tools…to help governments increase trust, strengthen their management of public funds and with that, improve their response to the current crisis…1. Improve Transparency…2. Accountability Through Civil Society…3. Harness Technology…4. Engage the Right Levers in Government…5. International Institutions can help.”

Warren Krafchik and Leslie Lang Tsai/World Bank: https://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/five-tools-reducing-corruption-during-covid-19