Governance

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Governance Corruption Service Delivery
Surveys TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL BANGLADESH
9th IACC Durban, South Africa 10-15 October 1999
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Surveys - Examples Experiences
Developing of Standards
TIB has undertaken the following surveys
1. News scan analysis 2. Pilot Survey 3.
Nationwide survey 4. Focus Group Discussions 5.
Governance survey for Human Development Centre
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On-going and Future surveys
1. Municipal election survey 2. Survey of civil
servants 3. Bribery Propensity Index 4. Bribe
Payers' Survey
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Step 1.

• Meeting with NGOs
• Discussion on corruption at community level

Step 2.

• Meeting with concerned Ministries and Departments

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Step 3.

• Generate randomised households with widest
• possible coverage

Step 4.

• Pre-testing draft questionnaire

Step 5.

• Finalisation of questionnaire

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Step 6.

• Field Work by investigators

Step 7.

• Initial Analysis

• Discussion with community for validation and
• recording consensus on remedy

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Step 8.

• Discussion with officials at local level

Step 9.

• Finalisation of report

Step 10.

• Presentation of survey results

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Focus Groups
Corruption as People See it
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HH SURVEY - FINDINGS

• Police and Courts
• 96 of HHs said they have to pay the police to
  get any help or service
• 63 of HHs involved in court cases said they have
  to bribe court officials and lawyers
• 89 of HHs involved in court cases said it was
  almost impossible to get
• fair and quick judgment from the court without
  money or influence

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• Education
• 74 of HHs said it required extra-regular methods
  to get children into school
• 42 of HHs said it was not possible for children
  to get good results or promotion into next higher
  class without hiring teacher as private tutor
• Health
• 40 of HHs reported extra pay needed to get
  admission to hospitals
• 41 of patients at hospitals said they did not
  get their medicine without extra pay

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• Main institutions where bribery is said to be
  necessary are
• -Thana Police (97 0f HHs) and
• -Courts (89 of HHs)
• Perceived causes of corruption
• -"get rich quick" - 76
• -"moral degradation" - 58
• -"lack of accountability" - 51
• -"inadequate salary" - 32 !!!"

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Governance Survey (524 respondents)
Findings

• half expressed faith in the political system

• 76 believed their political leaders to be
  corrupt

• More than 50 showed dissatisfaction with the
  delivery of
• public services

• Corruption was seen mostly as bribery and the
  misuse of power
• by those in authority

• 36 thought that corruption had increased over
  the past five years

• 82 considered the police department to be the
  most corrupt
• government department

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