How to improve civil society's participation in the fight against corruption?

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How to improve civil society's participation in
the fight against corruption?

• Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption 
• Suh, Jaesik

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Contents

• Corruption Prevention Citizens Participation
• Relations between Govt Civil Society
• Ways of Civil Societys Participation in the
  fight against Corruption
• Closing

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Corruption Prevention Citizens Participation

• 1. Importance of Civil Societys Participation
• 1) Efforts made by the govt alone are not
  enough to eradicate corruption.
• 2) It is the responsibility of every Bhutanese to
  act against corruption in our country. (Royal
  Kasho)

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Corruption Prevention Citizens Participation

• Who will act against corruption in this country?
• All Bhutanese public sector private sector
• civil society
• Civil Society Media
• NGOs
• Ordinary citizens

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II. Relations between Govt Civil Society

• (1)Changes in Relations between the
  Government and Citizens
• ltEvolutionary changes in the roles of citizens
  and govtgt

Source Vigoda, Eran. 2002. From responsiveness
to collaboration Governance, citizens, and the
next generation of public administration, PAR,
625
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• (2) Role of Govt Citizens in the 21st
  Century .
• Reestablishment of the status
• civil society as consumers and partners rather
  than the object of rule and control
• Govt as a manager, a partner and a supporter,
  distancing itself from a ruler

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III. Ways of Civil societys Participationin the
fight against corruption

• 1. Infrastructure for civil societys
  participation in the fight against corruption
• 1) Education and awareness raising on
  anti-corruption
• What is corruption?
• How do they confront corruption?
• 2) Trust in the government
• (In particular, public trust and support for ACC
  is very important)

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3) Access to Information
III. Ways of Civil societys Participationin the
fight against corruption

• Information Disclosure System
• If there are difficulties in obtaining
  information, people cannot make a clear judgment
  on govt activities and play their watchdog role
  over state affairs
• - USA(1966), Korea(1997)

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III. Ways of Civil societys Participationin the
fight against corruption

• Information Disclosure System
• Exceptions
• Information related to the national security,
  defense, unification, diplomacy and others which
  has high possibility of inflicting negative
  results on the nation if disclosed.

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4) Atmosphere of promoting reports on corrupt
practices
III. Ways of Civil societys Participationin the
fight against corruption

• Hot Line for a corruption report
•    A short and easy number
•   ex) 111, 113, 118
• System of protecting those who made a report on
  corruption.

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III. Ways of Civil societys Participationin the
fight against corruption

• 2. Types of Civil Society Participation in the
  Fight against Corruption
• (1)System allowing citizens to request an
  enactment or reform of ordinances
• (2) System guaranteeing citizens right to
  request inspection

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III. Ways of Civil societys Participationin the
fight against corruption

• (3) Citizens Recall System
• For heads of upper level local governments, a
  minimum of 10 of voters is required to seek a
  recall.
• (4) Ombudsman

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Ombudsman

• Characteristics of classical ombudsman
• ? overseeing administration and maintaining its
  political neutrality with legally guaranteed
  independence
• ? handling complaints on injustice, wrongdoings
  and irregularities concerning administrative
  bodies.
• ? having the rights to investigate, criticize
  and disclose administrative policies but not
  making direct correction.

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Ombudsman

• Integrity ombudsman (Case of Seoul
  Metropolitan Government)
• Carrying out duties independently within its
  mandate, focusing on corruption prevention,
  supervision improvement, and fair bidding,
  contracts and enforcement.

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IV. Closing

• Lets make Bhutan the( ) through the
  Collaboration between Civil Society Government
• Beautiful
• Honorable
• Unbelievably
• Transparent and
• Accountable
• Nation

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Thank You!