| Corruption Perception Survey
Transparency International (TI) has chosen
a clear and focused definition of the term “corruption” as
the “misuse of entrusted power for private gain” and further
differentiates between "according to rule" corruption
and "against the rule" corruption.
An example of corruption “according to rule”
would be the facilitation of payments: where a bribe is paid
to receive preferential treatment for something that the bribe
receiver is required to do by law. Corruption “against the
rule”, on the other hand, is a bribe paid to obtain services
the bribe receiver is prohibited from providing.
To gauge the perception held by people in
rural PNG communities about “corruption according to rule”,”
corruption against the rule” and other forms of corruption,
TIPNG undertook the Corruption Perception Survey (CPS) project
in four strategically placed provinces commencing in October
2008. The provinces were Southern Highlands, East New Britain,
Madang and Milne Bay.
Interestingly the findings of the research
show that those interviewed were aware that a lack of development,
some people having more power while some have less or no power,
lack of education, pressures of the modern world and poverty
often propelled people into participating in corrupt transactions.
For them, addressing corruption cannot occur
without fixing the causes of wider social problems: lack of
equal power, weak government, poor accountability mechanisms
and lack of services in rural areas. The responses suggest
that corruption cannot be disentangled from social realities.
Read more from the final CPS report and relating
stories.
FINAL REPORT ------------------RELATED
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OLIPPAC
TIPNG believes that creating political stability was
the aim of the architect of OLIPPAC. This was reinforced
during a presenatation at the 2010 OLIPPAC Conference
from 12 – 16 July 2010 held at the Alotau International
Hotel, Milne Bay Province...
Click
here .........to
read the full presentation.
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