defence_handbook_2011/2011/in focus/news room
In March 2011 TI’s Defence and Security Programme updated and expanded its handbook, Building Integrity and Countering Corruption in Defence and Security: 20 Practical Reforms. This handbook gives decision-makers practical tools and recommendations to help them lead their countries towards reform.
The handbook draws upon the past three years of experience working with this sector, with contributions from more than twenty countries around the globe. It covers five main areas:
- Diagnosing the risk;
- Leading change;
- Tackling corruption on operations;
- Procurement; and
- Budgets and Assets.
Much of the handbook is devoted to showing practical reform measures that committed governments and militaries can take to lead change. It helps diagnose corruption risks, outlining 29 specific areas of risk that recur throughout the world — be they political, personnel, procurement, finance, or operations—and suggests practical ways to counter them.
High level training courses, for example, can spread anti-corruption messages and measures. TI has already delivered anti-corruption training courses developed with NATO and the UK Defence Academy eleven times, including five times in Afghanistan, to some 250 senior military officers and MOD officials of 20 nations.
