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ACRC hosted 2017 anti-corruption initiative competition
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ACRC hosted 2017 anti-corruption initiative competition
Out of 820 submissions for developing and spreading anti-corruption policies, 10 excellent public organizations reached the finals December 7, 2017
December 11, 2017
Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission
The Republic of Korea
On December 11, the ACRC announced to host the 2017 Anti-Corruption Initiative Competition at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry on December 12, in order to promote competition over integrity among organizations and share anti-corruption policies.
The competition was one of the events promoted by the ACRC to celebrate International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls on December 9. The competition was developed to encourage to find and share highly effective anti-corruption policies as well as to increase the public interest in integrity-related activities.
Ten organizations - the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), the Ministry of National Defense (MND), the Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education, the Korea Expressway Corporation (EX), Korea Western Power Co., Ltd. (KOWEPO), the Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC), the Korea Rail Network Authority (KR), the Korea Housing Finance Corporation (HF), and the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (KSURE) - participated in the competition.
Ten finalists were picked after a month of reviewing over 820 policies submitted by 258 public organizations subject to anti-corruption initiative assessment. The ACRC and external experts reviewed the policies regarding their correlation to tasks prone to corruption, institutionalization, effectiveness and sustainability in anti-corruption, and possibility of being spread to other organizations.
The top five organizations out of ten will be awarded with an ACRC Chairperson prize in order to encourage continuous anti-corruption and integrity efforts.
In addition to this, exemplar cases will be posted to the ACRC website so that public organizations may refer to them for guidance, and so that they can be utilized when exporting anti-corruption policies to developing countries in cooperation with the UNDP.
One ACRC official said, “This competition includes various initiatives, such as anti-corruption systems that block out corruption in advance, highly effective restrictions on corruptive acts, and the implementation of integrity culture to improve awareness within organizations. They are expected to be a great help to those organizations who desire to improve their own integrity.”
The official added, “The ACRC is committed to performing multilateral anti-corruption activities so that more new initiatives can be seen in operation at each organization and at all levels, and so the ACRC and organizations can cooperate to expand these initiatives and improve the overall integrity level in the public sector to meet the expectations of citizens.”
The competition will be co-operated, as both judges and the audience will work together. Participating organizations will explain their initiatives, judges will review their rationality and possible ripple effects. The audience members in charge of each organization will ask questions regarding whether the initiatives could work well on site.
| Summary of anti-corruption initiatives which reached the finals |
| Title | Content |
| 1) Obligatory recording of consulting between commission members and examinees (KFTC) | Disclosure of consulting between those in charge of examination and deliberation, and those subject to it, in order to prevent corruption |
| 2) Corruption prevention system for military facility construction contracts (MND) | Detect risky elements before and after construction and educate those in charge |
| 3) Eliminating poor quality food ingredients through public-private governance (Busan Office of Education | Joint inspections by civil society, the office of education, city government, and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety; promotion of the judicial police system |
| 4) Introduction of autonomous inspectors with the local community (Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education) | Collaborate and inspect with schools, local experts, and the office of education to resolve congestion of inspections and block out corruption |
| 5) Improving fairness and transparency in adopting new technologies (EX) | Register without face-to-face meetings; two-step preliminary deliberation; establish organizations in charge; develop and implement work standards |
| 6) Finding and correcting inappropriate work directives (KOWEPO) | Make efforts to eradicate inappropriate work directives per organization, occupational group, relation, time, sector, and type |
| 7) Establishing a preemptive system for preventing conflicts of interest (KDHC) | Develop a standard on managing conflicts of interest; develop a thirty-two item checklist; establish a consulting and responding system |
| 8) Cutting off companies or employees that cause corruption (KR) | Cancel or terminate contracts with subcontractors that cause corruption, or restrict them; permanently cease business with corrupt construction companies |
| 9) Facilitating reporting of corruption and violation of public interest through public education (HF) | Facilitate reporting among 1,800 trainees of the Retirement Finance Academy; provide anti-corruption education |
| 10) Preventing fraud export through information sharing and collaboration (KSURE) | Collaborate with the Korea Customs Service to share information, monitor, and disclose trade finance defraudation |
