Transparency International
(TI) is undertaking an international initiative aimed at preventing corruption
on construction projects.
The initiative is based on the premise that corruption on construction projects
can be avoided if all parties put into place the necessary preventive measures.
This requires coordinated international action by governments, banks, export
credit agencies, project owners, contractors, consultants, insurers and other
relevant parties.
Corruption in the industry has been given considerable recent prominence by
the Commission for Africa Report, and the G8 Gleneagles Summit, both of which
call for concerted action. In order to support this industry initiative, TI
has produced a new (March 05) series of reports and business tools which deal
specifically with preventing corruption on construction projects. An index of
these reports and tools which includes a brief summary of each report's and
tool's contents is available to download
here.
TI's Global
Corruption Report 2005, includes a reasonably detailed action plan for the
industry. The report, "Risk assessment and proposed actions for construction
and engineering companies and consulting engineering firms" is also available
here.
All reports and tools can be accessed on TI's web-site www.transparency.org