#IACC2024 | Corruption Measurement: How to Hit a Moving Target?

Background: Data is fuelling the Fourth Industrial Revolution by generating new insights to direct resources, finance, and expertise to where they are needed most. Producing reliable and publicly available data and information is about making a real effort to increase transparency and accountability to reinvigorate the trust between people and governments which is hampered by corruption. That includes new ways to measure corruption -- a vital baseline to contribute to accelerating global anti-corruption efforts.

In recent years the discourse on corruption measurement moved from the question ‘whether corruption can be measured’ to ‘whether countries will consistently measure corruption’. Measuring corruption is a critical building block that supports countries to assess effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms. Without methodologies and tools in place it is difficult to collect data and evidence that will inform policy decisions to adapt or re-think anti-corruption measures.

Objective and key discussion areas: This workshop will look into new solutions to measure corruption. Building on the current work, the workshop will present new approaches that will support countries in assessing their progress in combatting corruption. Novel approaches and solution tools to measure corruption at the global and national levels will be presented by lead experts in the area. The workshop will also discuss major challenges and opportunities in measuring corruption anti-corruption, including financial integrity, public procurement, public integrity, effectiveness of global norms and standards, and experiences with bribery.

Coordinated by: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Featuring: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Group on Bribery, Open Contracting Partnership, Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania (STT) and Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) Brazil