"The Pera ng Bayan website provides a feedback mechanism from the citizens to the Department
of Finance and its attached agencies utilizing relevant social network tools. The citizens should be able to report exemplary
performance of civil servants under the department as well as send information relevant to graft, improper action, negligence,
lavish lifestyle and other illegal practices of the same,"
An alliance of the academe, business sector, civil society organizations, and Church that fights corruption.
CAC's mission is to implement and support counter-corruption projects in the area of procurement reforms and delivery of essential
public services.
International, Inc. is a non-profit membership association
that pools resources to provide practical and cost-effective anti-bribery compliance solutions for multinational companies
and their commercial intermediaries.
Most familiar anti-corruption strategies require sound state, social,
and political institutions, and a minimal level of trust, both in government and among citizens. The absence of all or most
of those assets is in part what defines fragility. Another key attribute is an expectations trap, in which citizens expect
very little of government and government demands very little of citizens, as long as they stay out of the way; in those situations
fragility can become a persistent situation. Using the Stresses-Capabilities-Expectations framework, this paper analyzes the
possibilities and risks of reform in fragile situations. Reformers should be aware of contrasts among kinds of corruption
problems, and of the potential benefits of halfway reform outcomes. The first priority (Do no harm) means avoiding premature
or poorly-thought-out reforms that can do more harm than good—notably, steps that overwhelm a society’s capacity
to absorb aid and put it to effective use, and that risk pushing fragile situations and societies into particular kinds of
corruption that are severely disruptive. The second imperative (Build trust) is essential if complex collective-action problems
are to be minimized, and if reform is to draw broad-based support. A first step toward greater trust is to provide basic services—particularly
those in which broad segments of society share a stake—in credible and demonstrable ways. Then, gradual but balanced
enhancements to participation (a variety of stress) and institutions can build opposition to corruption, in a climate of growing
trust. Reform in the end involves rebalancing stresses and capabilities so that expectations can change in positive ways.
The best ways to demonstrate and assess anti-corruption progress is to examine kinds of behavior, in civil society as well
as in politics and the economy, that reflect improving climates of expectations and trust.
Partner organizations in this website while it was
actively publishing news excerpts:
Ehem -- the anti-corruption initiative
of the Philippine Jesuits echoes the urgent call for cultural reform against corruption in the Philippines. Ehem
aims at bringing people to a renewed sensitivity to the evil of corruption and its prevalence in ordinary life. It seeks ultimately
to make them more intensely aware of their own vulnerability to corruption, their own uncritiqued, often unwitting practice
of corruption in daily life. Ehem hopes to bring people, in the end, to a commitment to live the way of Ehemplo --- critical
of corruption, intent on integrity!
Management Association of the Philippines MAP is a management organization
committed to promoting management excellence. The members of the MAP represent a cross-section of CEOs, COOs and other top
executives from the top local and multinational companies operating in the country, including some top officials of government
and the academe.
iProsupports the process of reducing
corruption by seeking synergies between Government of the Republic of
the Philippines agencies and civil society at all levels.
This website primarily serves to gather for research and educational purposes in one
single place news and information specifically pertinent to integrity and corruption in the Philippines. The news items,
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