Strengthening Municipal Resilience to Corruption

Outcome 1: Municipalities are better equipped to perform in a more transparent and corruption resilient manner to identify and mitigate corruption vulnerabilities. 

Outcome 2: Civil society and media have enhanced capacities  to  better  monitor municipal  decision-making processes and service delivery. 

Resultados previstos:  

• Municipalities have  stronger, and gender sensitive, anti-corruption mechanisms  in place in key service/high impact  areas. 
• Municipalities open their  processes to public scrutiny through  open data and regular public consultation. 
• Regulatory mechanisms  are enhanced and/or introduced to  decrease opportunities for corruption at the municipal level. 
• Civil society and media  conduct oversight of key local issues  and engage in anti-corruption advocacy. 

Resultados de las fases anteriores:   The findings showed systemic weaknesses contributing to financial mismanagement and poor service delivery: poorly formulated laws; limited clarity in decision-making authority; lack of public access to local decision-making, lack of internal control mechanisms and oversight. Basic mechanisms for prevention of corruption are missing in most LSGUs: rulebooks for procurement and other processes; systems to report service delivery to citizens; training in new laws; digitization tools and document management systems. Urban and rural planning, protection of environment, communal services and healthcare were identified as main areas at high risk of corruption. There is a lack of capacity and resources to combat corruption, and political influence over decision-making is well-spread. Switzerland’s comparative advantage is the long-term systemic interventions in decentralization, and an established collaboration with the relevant political actors, public institutions and CSOs. The need and demand for this intervention has been confirmed through a series of interviews and workshops with the key stakeholders.