Monitoring Corruption in the Delivery of Public Services in South Africa and Assessing the Effectiveness of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Strategies
The lack of an independent assessment of public sector initiatives to combat corruption as well as the manifest absence of civil society initiatives to monitor the impact of corruption on service delivery at national, provincial and local government level inspired the ISS Corruption & Governance Programme to embark on this research project. The project has three dimensions:
- Monitor the effects of corruption on service delivery by analysing corruption trends within specific national public sector departments and metropolitan areas. Current focal areas are the Department of Social Development, Housing, Health, Education and Local Government.
- Assess efforts by these departments/institutions to implement internal anti-corruption strategies, especially the Minimum Anti-Corruption Capacity (MACC) strategy.
- Measure the nature and impact of corruption on service delivery in key areas through the use of surveys of officials charged with corruption.
The overarching purpose is to assist with speeding up service delivery by monitoring the causes and incidence of corruption. The points below encapsulate the project’s immediate objectives:
- To highlight the effect of corruption on service delivery.
- Monitoring corruption trends within public sector departments and local government authorities tasked with service delivery.
- To assess the effectiveness of measures designed to combat corruption within public sector departments and local government authorities tasked with service delivery.
- To provide policy recommendations to improve anti-corruption measures/capacity and/or identify best practice within selected departments.
- To provide state anti-corruption agencies with data to assist in efforts to counter corruption with these departments.
- To assess the effectiveness of interventions by specialised anti-corruption agencies
- To identify departments and entities possibly most at risk of corrupt activities – from a citizen’s perspective.
- To provide civil society active in these areas with information to better monitor performance of departments tasked with service delivery.
- To document good practice where this exists for possible replication by other departments.
- To provide a baseline of information for future enquiry.
The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) funds the project.
Project Head: Hennie van Vuuren (
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Researchers: Andile Sokomani (
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), Researchers: Corruption & Governance Programme
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