Inclusive procurement is a deliberate way for governments to purchase goods or services from specific unfavoured or vulnerable supplier categories in order to advance social and economic development. However, public procurements must also meet...

This study provides a literature review on school funding formulas across OECD countries. It looks at three salient questions from a comparative perspective: i) What kind of school formula funding schemes exist and how are they used, particularly for...

Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa (TISDA) is a three-year, seven-country program implemented by Transparency International that started in 2008 and will conclude in 2011. It seeks to support civil society in seven African...

Governments are increasingly responding to internal and external calls to increase the level of transparency in their public budget processes and systems as a way to manage public resources more efficiently and effectively so as to better respond to...

The booklet deals with the issue of corruption in the education sector. It defines corruption in its various manifestation and magnitude. It refers to a number of factors, particularly the international conventions, various research works and various...

A key aim of the Public Governance Committee is to help governments better assess the implementation and impact of policies and measures in the public sector. This includes efforts to provide evidence-based comparative information on measures for...

Avec le mouvement de professionnalisation de l'enseignement, la compétence éthique est devenue une caractéristique désirée du professionnalisme dans l'enseignement. Son développement doit être amorcé en formation initiale et consolidé tout au long de...

Corruption is the cause and core of many human rights violations. Among countries, there is a generalised trend of systemic corruption coexisting with an institutionalised failure to respect human rights. The three countries where perceived...

Les marchés publics sont une activité vulnérable à la corruption et à la fraude au Maroc comme dans les autres pays. Toutefois, la phase, qui va de l'appel d'offres à l'attribution du marché, est bien encadrée par le Décret de 2007. Il a été indiqué...

Rigged calls for tender, embezzlement of funds, illegal registration fees, academic fraud - there is no lack of empirical data illustrating the diverse forms that corruption can take in the education sector. Surveys suggest that fund leakage from...