Fritzen, Scott A.; Basu, Shreya --- "From Information to Indicators: Monitoring Progress in the Fight Against Corruption in Multi-project, Multi-stakeholder Organizations" [2011] ELECD 1002; in Graycar, Adam; Smith, G. Russell (eds), "Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption

Editor(s): Graycar, Adam; Smith, G. Russell

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849805018

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: From Information to Indicators: Monitoring Progress in the Fight Against Corruption in Multi-project, Multi-stakeholder Organizations

Author(s): Fritzen, Scott A.; Basu, Shreya

Number of pages: 18

Extract:

15 From information to indicators:
monitoring progress in the fight against
corruption in multi-project, multi-
stakeholder organizations
Scott A. Fritzen and Shreya Basu


INTRODUCTION

Corruption's rise to prominence in the global discourse on governance
and development can be witnessed in the high-profile legislative activity
and the proliferation of organizations committed to combating it in recent
years. Despite public commitments by governments and international
organizations to root out corruption, many of the efforts of the last two
decades have struggled to move past the rhetoric of reform. While much
scrutiny is directed towards national governments, vested as they are
with the responsibility of ridding their polities of corruption, pressures
have also increased on private sector corporations and non-governmental
actors as well. In practice, any organization that functions across multiple
jurisdictions and projects, and that works with multiple partner organiza-
tions under complex accountability arrangements, has a potentially dif-
ficult task at hand: managing corruption risks within their organization,
while managing external expectations, perceptions and pressures about
the same (Fritzen, 2007). While large multilateral donor agencies like the
World Bank fit neatly into this profile (and form the focus of this chapter),
so do publicly-listed international corporations, national and bi-lateral
aid agencies, international non-government organizations and even (often
statutorily independent) governmental anti-corruption agencies.
A range of anti-corruption interventions have been tried and tested by
these organizations over the years. Yet, practical and effective implemen-
tation of anti-corruption measures ­ especially in climates of ...