OECD Public Integrity Handbook
The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity. The Handbook clarifies what the Recommendation’s thirteen principles mean in practice and identifies challenges in implementing them. The Handbook provides guidance on improving co-operation within government, as well between the national and subnational levels. To build cultures of integrity across government and society, the Handbook details the core elements of a merit-based human resource management system and the key ingredients of open organisational cultures. It also clarifies government’s role in providing guidance to companies, civil society and citizens on upholding public integrity values. Moreover, the Handbook unpacks how to use the risk management process to assess and manage integrity risks, and highlights how to use the enforcement system to ensure real accountability for integrity violations.
Standards
This chapter provides a commentary on the principle of standards contained in the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Public Integrity. It describes how governments can set clearly defined high standards of conduct that prioritise the public interest and adherence to public sector values, and include them in legal and regulatory frameworks and strategies. It provides examples of clear and proportionate procedures to prevent violations of public integrity standards, and introduces internal and external communications mechanisms to disseminate these values and standards. In addition, the chapter addresses the three commonly faced challenges of making standards memorable and actionable, ensuring implementation, and setting clear and proportionate procedures to prevent conflicts of interest.
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