The Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit is a compendium of practical civil society anti-corruption experiences described in concrete and accessible language. It presents innovative anti-corruption tools developed and implemented by TI National Chapters and other civil society organizations from around the world.

The publication highlights the potential of civil society to create mechanisms for monitoring public institutions and to demand and promote accountable and responsive public administration. The Corruption Fighter's Tool Kit, and its Special Edition: Teaching Integrity to Youth, offer the reader a dynamic, ever-growing, collection of tools. Together they will provide ideas and inspiration to their readers.

At present, the Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit includes 46 exciting tools from around the world. Learn how TI Bangladesh uses theatre as a means to raise awareness about corruption and how TI Peru is testing the new Peruvian access to information law, among many other tools created by civil society organizations. The Special Edition 2004: Teaching Integrity to Youth includes 11 additional tools of youth anti-corruption education and provides many illustrations, cartoons and photographs which accompany the text.

* Corruption Fighters’ Tool Kit Special Edition 2004
Teaching Integrity to Youth in 11 countries
* Corruption Fighters’ Tool Kit 2002 – 2003
Civil society experiences and emerging strategies
* Corruption Fighters’ Tool Kit 2001
The first ever Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit (October 2001) describes 27 anti-corruption tools.
* Tools to Support Transparency in Local Governance
Urban Governance Toolkit Series, March 2004


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Worldwide, the construction sector isregularly rated as the most corrupt industry. Even so, the scaleand effects of this corruption are frequently underestimated. The2005 edition of Transparency International's Global Corruption Reporthighlights the devastating impact of corruption in constructionand what can be done to prevent it.

Coinciding with the publication of the Global Corruption Report2005, TI has launched an international initiative aimed at preventingcorruption on construction projects. The following set of documentsis intended to assist in the prevention of corruption in this sector.They are discussion documents, and TI welcomes comments which wouldlead to the improvement of the individual documents, or to the additionof further documents. Comments should be sent to neill.stansbury@transparency.org.uk

To access any of the following documents, click on the document.

1. "Risk assessment and proposed actions for project owners".
1_risk_assessment_owners.pdf 222.39 kB
This document:
- gives examples of different types of corrupt practices which can take place during the various phases of a construction project;
- shows how the cumulative cost effect of corrupt practices can make the project uneconomic, with resultant damage to all those affected;
- assesses the risk to project owners as a result of corruption;
- proposes actions which could be taken by project owners to reduce the risk of corruption on construction projects.
2. "Risk assessment and proposed actions for banks, export credit agencies, guarantors and insurers".
2_risk_assessment_banks_insurers.pdf 218.19 kB
This document:
- gives examples of different types of corrupt practices which can take place during the various phases of a construction project;
- shows how the cumulative cost effect of corrupt practices can make the project uneconomic, with resultant damage to all those affected;
- assesses the risk to banks, export credit agencies, guarantors and insurers ("funders") as a result of corruption;
- proposes actions which could be taken by funders to reduce the risk of corruption on construction projects.
3. "Risk assessment and proposed actions for construction and engineering companies and consulting engineering firms".
3_risk_assessment_consulting_engineering_firms.pdf 225.67 kB
This document:
- examines how the corrupt actions of employees, subsidiary and associated companies, agents, joint venture and consortium partners, sub-contractors, consultants, suppliers, competitors, project owners and government officials can adversely impact on the company during a construction project;
- assesses the losses and civil and criminal liability which a company can incur as a result of corrupt actions by these parties;
- proposes actions which could be taken by construction and engineering companies and consulting engineering firms to reduce the risk of corruption on construction projects.
4. "Examples of corruption".
4_examples_of_corruption.pdf 330.31 kB
This document:
- examines the inter-relationship between bribery and fraud, and comments on some methods by which bribes are concealed;
- examines the complex, diverse and fragmented nature of a construction project, which contributes to the prevalence of corruption on projects;
- summarises some of the more common corrupt practices which can take place during the different phases of a construction project;
- provides detailed examples of corrupt practices, together with an analysis of these examples;
- shows the destructively cumulative effect which bribery and fraud of the type described in this report can have on the cost of a construction project.
5. "Independent assessment".
5_independent_assessment.pdf 173.50 kB
This document:
- comments that corrupt practices on construction projects are concealed, with the result that it is very difficult for anyone not actively involved in the project to prevent or uncover these practices;
- gives examples of different types of corrupt practices which can take place during the various phases of a construction project;
- proposes that these types of corrupt practices could be materially reduced if the participants in a construction project appointed an independent expert assessor, who had open access to the records and employees of the participants, and whose role was to prevent corrupt practices, and to uncover and report corrupt practices;
- suggests the scope of work, appointment mechanism and fee structure of the assessor.
6. "Construction integrity pacts".
6_construction_integrity_pacts.pdf 216.62 kB
This document:
- gives examples of different types of corrupt practices which can take place during the various phases of a construction project;
- assesses the risks which the participants in a construction project face as a result of these corrupt practices;
- proposes the use of independently monitored and enforceable integrity pacts to help reduce these risks;
- analyses the different types of integrity pact which can be used.
7. "Model construction integrity pact - sector".
7_model_integrity_pact_sector.pdf 130.13 kB
This document is a model agreement between companies working in the same sector to act with integrity when they compete against each other in tendering for any construction project anywhere in the world.
8. "Model construction integrity pact - project - prequalification and tender".
8_model integrity_pact_prequali_tender.pdf 147.85 kB
This document is a model agreement between the project owner, designer and all bidding contractors to act with integrity in relation to the pre-qualification and tender process for a specific construction project.
9. "Model construction integrity pact - project - execution".
9_model_integrity_pact_project_execution.pdf 145.49 kB
This document is a model agreement between the project owner, certifier and the selected contractor to act with integrity in relation to the execution of a specific construction project.
10. "Model claims management code".
10_model_claims_management_code.pdf 107.69 kB
This document is a model code of conduct which can be incorporated into construction contracts, and which commits the signatories to deal with contract claims and disputes with absolute integrity.

See also TI's "GlobalCorruption Report 2005" which focuses on corruptionin the international construction and engineering industry.

See also TI´s press release on the Initiative: "Preventing Corruption on Construction Projects"

"Anti-Corruption Action Statement". The Anti-Corruption Forumis an alliance of UK business associations, professional institutionsand companies with interests in the international infrastructure,construction and engineering sectors. The purpose of the Forum isto promote industry-led actions which can help eliminate corruptionin these sectors. The Forum has published an “Anti-Corruption ActionStatement” which identifies the various categories of participantin these sectors, including governments, project owners, banks,export credit agencies, companies providing the equipment and servicesfor a project, business associations and professional institutions.It recommends preventive and enforcement actions which could betaken by those participants. See also the “Press Release” which was issued when the Action Statement was published.