The Commission Activities within the National Anti-Bribery Campaign
Dec 21 , 2010

Upon the decisions of the Anti-corruption joint council at the beginning of 2009 and the National Anti-Bribery Campaign that started in June 2009. The Commission of Integrity worked on three major methods to carry out the campaign objects up to October 1,2010 through out:

  1. Implementing (2550) sight visits to the official offices to identify their commitments to achieve the campaign objects.
  2. Implementing (4620) monthly questionnaires in (234) offices in Baghdad and provinces to measure the size of bribery.
  3. Implementing (92) apprehension order for officials caught in the act of bribery,(81)apprehension order in 2010.

The campaign recognized the following obstacles:

  1. Assigning some offices to incompetent, inefficient, corrupted or weak leaderships leads to spreading of corruption.
  2. The absence of financial support and neglecting of work requirements by some leadership effected negatively on the services provided to the citizens.
  3. Buildings of some offices are not suitable to implement the priority object regarding to disconnecting between the official and the citizen.
  4. Spreading of intermediaries and police martyrs funds helped in bribery spreading.
  5. Randomly offices distributions.
  6.  Absence of transparency in work methods and the bad applying of rules, regulations and instructions.
  7. Weakness of auditing and inspection body within the office encouraged the employee to have bribe.
  8. The absence of (reward and punishment) and lack of objective assessment for the employees in inducement awarding caused inconvenient among employees.
  9. Deficiency of awareness in corruption made the society coexistence with this phenomenon.
  10. Some employees who under contract believe that they are not responsible for their faults and fewness of their salaries in comparison with other permanent employees who work in good positions could cause bribery.
  11. Some people give bribes to have or to speed up their illegal dealings furthermore they might be obliged to give bribe under blackmail or hindering their dealings.
  12. Some offices seek to implement the requirements of anti-bribery campaign for the purpose of non-accountability not for fighting corruption.
  13. Offices must be obliged to put a schedule for achieving dealings and put neglectful persons under accountability where many questionnaires showed that people had to pay bribe due to delay or hindering their dealings.

 The greatest achievement accomplished through this campaign is disappearance of most of overt bribery figures due to the big pressure of the campaign, but the insistence of some employees to have bribe made them find other means outside office with complicated means.

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