Guidelines to Integrity and Transparency Assessment Projects to improving CPI of Thailand

Abstract

                  Integrity and Transparency Assessment is a positive reinforcement measure for anticorruption which was applied the concept from integrity assessment to the operation of public sector of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Organization of Korea, integrated with the Transparency Index of public sector, the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). The objective was to assess Integrity and Transparency, and provided recommendations for public sector participating in the project as a guideline for improving the implementation of anti-corruption measures in both of policy level and operational level. It was also a guideline to link the project
to improve the CPI of Thailand. The project surveyed by 3 types of questionnaire that NACC had developed; 1) a survey form for internal personnel 2) a survey form for clients or stakeholders of sector and 3) a surveys form for empirical evidence.
                  Over all of the results of the integrity and transparency assessment, the department level and the provincial level over the past 3 years, showed that the departmental assessment score in 2015 was 78.31 points, in 2016 was 80.43 points and in 2016 was 83.06 points, respectively. The provincial assessment score in 2015 was 76.27 points, in 2016 was 80.39 points and in 2017 was 81.76, respectively.
                 As a result, the assessment score was successive increasing every year, represents that mostly public sector was aware more about integrity and transparency under the good governance principal. This was a part of the positive reinforcement measures for proactive anti-corruption in the country. However, Thai government must still focus seriously on resolving the corruption problem and promote integrity and transparency pragmatically. Because anti-corruption is an emergency national agenda. So, all of public sector, as a part of key mechanism, must drive a good governance to public, national and international, for significantly increasing the CPI of Thailand.