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Cliché and Complexity in Kyrgyzstan

19 Monday Nov 2018

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Bishkek Power Plant. Photo Credit: Danil Usmanov

By Caroline Elkin, Program Assistant with CIPE’s Europe and Eurasia team.

There are trite ways to describe almost every post-Soviet country: Belarus is Europe’s last dictatorship and Kazakhstan suggests Borat. Kyrgyzstan, sometimes called the island of democracy in Central Asia, appears luckier.

In reality, Kyrgyzstan’s cliché camouflages the overwhelming challenge of corruption, which 95 percent of citizens consider a major problem today. A growing scandal illustrates the extent of corruption in the country, and the challenges of combatting corruption in what, is at best, a flawed democracy.

President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, elected October 2017 in a flawed but somewhat competitive contest, has fired or brought corruption charges against high-ranking associates of his immediate predecessor, Almazbek Atambayev. Many of these stem from the scandal surrounding a badly repaired Bishkek thermal power plant, which broke during a cold snap in January 2018. That left nearly a quarter million residents of the capital without heat for several days in -16° Fahrenheit weather.  Read More...

Instituting an Effective Compliance Program- Continued

31 Wednesday Aug 2016

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In the fourth and final video of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption Compliance series explains the remaining steps for instituting an effective compliance program, continuing off of what was laid out in the third video. The animated video explores how a company can implement the following points:

  • monitor and audit the quality of the internal control system’s performance and how these tasks should be done by an internal or external entity;
  • create a sound, company-wide reporting system and a way to investigate and look into the reported concerns or issues;
  • develop a spelled out spectrum of disciplinary actions and consequences in the company’s policies and procedures and apply enforcement and discipline fairly and consistency;
  • use incentives to encourage people in the company to behave ethically;
  • And when a violation is discovered and investigated, think of how to improve the compliance system so something similar does not happen again.

Learn more about each of these points by watching the video here.  Read More...

The Value of Business Process Management to Anti-Corruption Programs

22 Monday Aug 2016

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By Robert E. Ross, Managing Director of Global Enterprise Consulting

When you think of corruption, you may not think about process and key performance indicators as critically important. And yet, establishing the appropriate foundation and metrics is critical to unearthing and preventing corruption in public and private sector entities. Corruption sees no boundaries. The conflicts in Iraq, for example, and the constant struggles among political parties, religious factions, and governmental leaders have allowed corruption to expand unchecked and unchallenged. Numerous other countries face the same ongoing challenges, whether in a post-conflict state or functioning in a seemingly stable environment. Yet Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), concerned citizens, and ministry workers eagerly strive to address corruption and improve delivery of services by government ministries and agencies to citizens in all areas, especially health services, pharmaceutical distribution, and basic utilities. Combating unfairness, social inequities, waste, fraud, abuse, and poor service delivery are inherent in anti-corruption programs.  Read More...