2) DETERMINING THE STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION IN YOUR COUNTRY AND OTHER COUNTRIES The following texts provide examples of monitoring carried out by Transparency International and the International Budget Project. The first example involves monitoring designed to check implementation gaps in relation to the OAS and UN Conventions. The second example involves monitoring not specifically linked to anti-corruption conventions but addressing a subject covered by the conventions.
EXAMPLE OF CONVENTIONS’ MONITORING One method for assessing implementation in your country that may lend itself well to advocacy work is through concise expert reports on the status of implementation. TI developed questionnaires for that purpose, to examine implementation of the OAS and UN Conventions in the areas of public integrity and public procurement. The following text provides excerpts from the questionnaire on public sector integrity.
EXCERPTS OF TI’S PUBLIC INTEGRITY QUESTIONAIRE FOR THE TI CONVENTION REPORT CARD The normative standards that apply to the disclosure of revenues, assets and liabilities are established specifically in Article III, paragraph 4 of the OAS Convention and in Article VIII, paragraph 5 of the UN Convention. Of particular relevance are the developments made with the OAS Committee of Experts First Round Questionnaires, and most specifically the Committee’s Recommendations issued to the countries of the region studied in the past three years. Such recommendations, based on their regularity, demonstrate a consensus as to which elements characterize adequate regulatory framework and conduct relating to the disclosure of revenues, assets and liabilities. The model that is derived from these international provisions and from the advances in the Follow-up Mechanism outlines the following accepted standards for the disclosure of revenues, assets and liabilities: 1. Requirement on the part of high-level and high-ranking public officials to report where they maintain their chattels and assets. 2. Requirement to submit statements of income, assets and liabilities at the time of assuming a public position and again at the time of leaving a public position, as a minimum. 3. Existence of procedures to ensure this requirement is met. 4. Verifiability of the information contained in such statements. 5. Public disclosure of and accessibility to such statements. 81
VI. Promoting implementation into law, policy and practice