Integrity Pacts (Proética - Integrity Pacts)
The Integrity Pacts are voluntary mechanisms for the evaluation and monitoring of contracting between bidding companies and the State, carried out with the mediation of Proética (the Peruvian chapter of Transparency International). They are intended to reduce corruption and improve levels of transparency in state procurement, as well as to identify unnecessary and excessive expenditures. The Integrity Pact implies that the process is designed in such a way that all the parties involved commit themselves to an integral behavior. Through this mechanism, the parties voluntarily submit to a specific design of the contracting system that allows for citizen control by a civil society organization and an independent monitoring group, who oversee all phases of procurement. In Peru, a single experiment was carried out, in the town of Huancavélica, for which the pact and the process were designed but the parties did not sign it.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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