Workshops
Workshop 1. Key
components for building a consistent Integrity Framework
This workshop will share lessons learned on
how to build a consistent set of instruments,
processes, structures and supportive
conditions for accomplishing a coherent
Integrity Framework in public sector
organisations.
Participants will share their practical
experience on updating standards of
conduct for public servants, for example by
revising codes of conduct, raising
awareness and improving skills for their
application in daily work. Procedures for
control to enhance compliance will also be
discussed as well as reporting cases of
corruption and protecting whistleblowers.
Workshop 2. Vulnerable
processes and
corruption risk assessment
This workshop will discuss existing
approaches, methods and tools for mapping
out risks of corruption in public sector
organisations. Risk assessment is at the
heart of a sound Integrity Framework to
understand vulnerabilities; incentives for
corruption; and define ways to counter
recognised risks.
Presentations will highlight the perspectives
of supreme audit institutions and central
integrity bodies in order to share first-hand
lessons learned in daily practice on
effective solutions for auditors and
managers.
Workshop 3.
Integrity Framework: Good
practices
This workshop will review and identify
good practices for fostering integrity and
preventing corruption and discuss
conditions for their success.
Identified good practices will enrich the
Catalogue of Promising Practices
developed by the member states of the EU
in close co-operation with EUPAN. The
catalogue will support discussion to
understand the context for successful
implementation.
Follow-up steps will also be discussed to
explore options for regularly up-dating the
catalogue in order for it to become a living
document listing examples to effectively
promote integrity in public sector
organisations.
Workshop 4. Risk
Areas: Public
Procurement
This workshop will review the application
of policy instruments for preventing
corruption in the whole public procurement
process, from definition of needs through
the tendering process, to contract
management and payment.
Participants will discuss how to promote
the implementation of the OECD
Principles for Enhancing Integrity in
Public Procurement through enhanced
transparency, accountability and control.
For example, participants will be invited to
consider emerging practical tools and give
directions for developing a comprehensive
toolkit for actors with responsibility to keep
government contracts clean, such as
procurement officials, competition
authorities or donor agencies.
Workshop 5. Integrity
Framework: Assessing
implementation and impact
At this workshop participants will share
efforts to assess the implementation of
integrity measures and their impact.
Participants will examine, in particular,
what data is available on measures for
fostering a culture of integrity and
preventing corruption in public sector
organisations. Discussion will identify
what data and benchmarks managers and
policy-makers need for tracking progress.
Workshop 6. Risk
Areas: Avoiding conflict of
interest in the context of the financial crisis
This workshop will focus on new forms of
conflict of interest and specifically address
emerging challenges such as avoiding
conflict of interest in post-employment.
The “Revolving door” between the public
and the regulated sector, in particular in
financial institutions, raised concerns to
review existing practices. Participants will
be invited to share experiences of current
practices as well as emerging proposals, for
example to enhance transparency through
disclosure by decision makers at national,
sub-national and supranational levels.
