The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission announced Wednesday that its Integrity Assessment system was awarded the top prize in the U.N. Public Service Award’s anti-corruption category.
Under the system, the ACRC surveys a large number of civil servants and members of the public lodging complaints to assess the level of integrity at government organizations.
Since its introduction in 2002, the ACRC has increased the number of organizations assessed to 684. The ACRC also carries out follow-up investigations and draws up measures regarding criteria and organizations that are shown to have low integrity.
This year, 1,344 systems and policies from across the world were entered in the awards, and the winners were selected by the U.N. Division for Public Administration and Development Management and the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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