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  • Newspaper

    Expenditure tracking surveys can fight corruption

    Philippines

    Press

    Dennis Arroyo - MQ7Money

    Hace unos años, la corrupción en la educación pública era tan acusada que la ratio era de un libro de texto por cada cuatro niños. Hoy en día se están llevando a cabo varias reformas y agrupaciones municipales está siguiendo muy de cerca los manuales escolares.

  • Newspaper

    Ending corruption in education in Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone

    Press

    Max Katta - CARL

    Sierra Leonean civil society activists are working to improve accountability. The National Accountability Group (NAG) – the local chapter of Transparency International – used a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) to find out what had happened to school fee subsidies and learning materials designated for a sample of 28 schools in a rural district. NAG's survey came after an earlier Ministry of Finance PETS revealed startling figures about education corruption. In 2002 researchers found that 45.1 percent of the funds for school fees subsidies were unaccounted for and that nearly 28 percent of teaching and learning materials had disappeared.

  • Diagnostic tools

    Basic page

    Several tools are available to decision-makers for the measurement of corrupt practices within the education sector.

  • Combating ghost schools and other forms of corruption in education

    Muriel Poisson

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  • Public expenditure tracking surveys

    Basic page

    Public expenditure tracking surveys (PETS) study the flow of public funds and make it possible to determine whether resources reach their intended destination, or if there are leakages along the way.

  • Impact of community monitoring on corruption

    There are many methodological challenges involved in assessing the impact of anti-corruption community-led monitoring initiatives, in terms of measurement methodologies, attribution, as well as scope and focus of impact tracking studies. In spite of...

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

    Bergen, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2012

  • Survey tools for assessing performance in service delivery

    This chapter explains how micro surveys can be used to measure performance in service delivery. It introduces two new survey tools - the public expenditure tracking survey and the quantitative service delivery survey-and summarizes why, where, and...

    Dehn, Jan, Reinikka, Ritva, Svensson, Jakob

    Washington D.C., World Bank, 2003

  • Public expenditure tracking and facility surveys: a general note on methodology

    Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS) are quantitative exercises that trace the flow of resources from origin to destination and determine the location and scale of anomaly. This note by World Bank gives a summary of the steps involved in such a...

    Waglé, Swarnim, Shah, Parmesh

    Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2002

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