National Integrity System Country Studies: Pacific Island Countries

The concept of a National Integrity System (NIS) has been developed by Transparency International (TI). With the ultimate goal of promoting good government and good governance, the NIS also forms the basis for an approach to anti-corruption reform programmes. One of the features of the NIS and its constituent parts and activities is that it provides audit criteria, not only of those parts and activities but also of their contribution to the overall NIS, and thus the NIS itself. With the concept of the NIS central to the TI Source Book, TI then applied the methodology to country studies, drawing on the expertise primarily of its National Chapters to produce a report and questionnaire on the NIS in practice.

TI NIS Country Studies

The Dutch Government funded TI to undertake the first series of country studies, which included a country study of Fiji. TI worked with the Centre for Fraud Management Studies, Liverpool Business School [now the Fraud Management Studies Unit, University of Teesside] to deliver the project. A subsequent series of 23 country studies is being funded by the British Government's Department for International Development of which PNG and New Zealand have already been completed and Australia will be completed and become available later in 2004.

More information on the TI NIS Country Studies at the website link below.

 The TI NIS Country Studies Web Page

National Integrity Studies of Pacific Island Countries (NISPAC)

As a part of TI's worldwide NIS project, TI Australia in collaboration with Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU) has carried out a further 12 National Integrity studies of Pacific Island Countries. The research has been funded by AusAID

The NISPAC research was carried out in-country during 2003 and early 2004. The research culminated with a workshop in Fiji in March 2004 to discuss the findings and conclusions. The workshop was organized by TI Australia as the project manager, and included the ANU lead researchers, the contracted country researchers and representatives of relevant TI Pacific Chapters.

The NISPAC Overview Report 2004 was released in June 2004 at the Pacific Forum, Finance and Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) in Rotorua. A report for the joint presentation by TI PNG and TI Australia on behalf of the TI Chapters in the Pacific can be found on NISPAC presentation at FEMM 2004. On 8 June TI Australia made available a NISPAC Overview media release.

The 12 individual country studies were released during July and August 2004.

For further background on the NISPAC methodology, details of the researchers etc see NISPAC APSEG ANU link below.

 NISPAC APSEG ANU

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