Latest ACC publications: Annual Report, 2012 This is the 6th Annual Report to the Parliament and the 1st to the second Parliament. The period covered is from April 2012 to April 2013 and has 5 sections: Section I, provides an assessment of the ACC’s general performance, implementation of the parliamentary resolutions, Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, people’s perception of the ACC’s effectiveness, etc. Section 2, focuses on the Eleventh Five Year Plan and implementation of the Institutional Development Plan. For the first time it also includes diagnosis of its organizational integrity. Section 3, assesses the performance of ACC in its efforts towards building an awakened citizenry, mainstreaming anti-corruption strategies and to deter acts of corruption. Section 4, highlights the challenge and risks of corruption in the recruitment and selection processes. Section 5, in conclusion highlights the political and electoral corruption. It reiterates the need to take stock of the government’s anticorruption measures and integrity promotion systems and the urgent need to strengthen and enforce the existing systems. Integrity & Value Education in Schools Report, 2012 Value education has always been a core component of the school curricula. It underpins the ACC’s goal of building an awakened citizenry. In order to understand the values that students articulate in their behavior, measures adopted by the schools to transmit values that would contribute to corruption reduction and the impact of such values on the students, the ACC conducted a survey on the theme ‘Integrity and Value Education in Schools’ from May-June 2012. It covered 91 schools with 2500 respondents of whom 2000 were students, 400 teachers and 100 heads of schools. The target group was students from classes VII to XII. The findings may reconfirm the general perception of the behavior of youth in schools, compel all to reflect on one’s behaviour and stimulate all concerned to take stock of the policies and strategies on value education and either strengthen the existing delivery systems or explore more effective ways to instill values and integrity in the youth, ultimately contributing to building an awakened citizenry. 2nd National Integrity Assessment, 2012 The NIA is “an assessment of whether, in an organization, a public official follows standard procedures in providing public services fairly and transparently and that the services are not processed based on personal propensity towards a special condition or inducement.” The NIA survey is conducted every three years in collaboration with the National Statistical Bureau (NSB). The survey is based on the first hand experience of service users over a definite period of time. The first NIA survey was conducted in 2009. The survey was conducted in the 1st quarter of 2013. The reference year of the services availed by the clients was 2011. 7,029 external clients were identified for the interview: 5,050 clients had availed themselves of the services from the dzongkhags, 987 from corporations/autonomous agencies and 992 from the ministries. Unlike in the past, this survey included 2,097 internal clients (employees of service providing agencies). The survey covered 291 services provided by 97 different public agencies as compared to 43 services and 27 public agencies in the first survey, 2009. The assessment not only covered the corruption level but also transparency of public agencies and accountability of public officials, expands the concept of corruption from gratuities and entertainment to convenience and other gratifications and produces a comprehensive integrity by combining external and internal integrity. As the methodologies of the two surveys vary, the scores cannot be directly compared. The comprehensive integrity score (national integrity) is now 8.37 on a scale of 0-10 (0 means highly corrupt and 10 highly transparent). In 2009, the national integrity score was 7.44 on the same scale. The survey results once again confirm people’s reluctance to speak up, a reflection on the culture within which they operate. Of 6,969 respondents, only 29 reported of having experienced corruption; of the 2,097 internal respondents, 17 admitted of having paid bribe for personnel issues and 70 respondents having observed unlawful budget execution by either their seniors or other employees. In general, fear of reprisals is deeply seated in people’s mind and it is a reality. For more detail please click on attachment link below Annual report 2012 (Eng): acc.org.bt/sites/default/files/ACC%20Annual%20Report%20final_4.pdf Integrity and Value Education in Schools Report 2012: acc.org.bt/sites/default/files/Inside%20REPORT%20ON%20Value%20Education%20in%20SCHOOL.pdf National Integrity Assessment 2012: acc.org.bt/sites/default/files/NIA%202012%2015-08-2013.pdf
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