ICRAT

The Infrastructure Corruption Risk Assessment Tool (ICRAT) helps users identify the loopholes that enable corruption to thrive in the infrastructure sector. The ICRAT is designed to assist civil society and other stakeholders to ask the right questions and hold those responsible for commissioning, selecting and financing public infrastructure to account. The tool provides a practical, easily applicable roadmap to identify and mitigate red-flag corruption hotspots during the process of project selection.

Key features

The tool contains:

An explanation of risk factors and good practice examples
Instructions on assessing the project selection process
Guidance to help you to draw conclusions and summarise findings
Suggested mitigation actions to help you take tackle corruption risks

The development of this tool and ongoing work on accountable infrastructure is being supported by the Australian and New Zealand government.

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Benefits

Governments, developers and civil society organisations all benefit from the ICRAT.

Government officials can rely on a stronger evidence base to remedy institutional weaknesses that lead to poor outcomes
Infrastructure developers can better assess and mitigate corruption risks, and provide assurance that project decision-making is transparent and fair
Civil society organisations can gain a better understanding of corruption risks and identify opportunities to engage in the infrastructure process

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This tool has been used in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Pakistan, Zambia, Sri Lanka and Kenya. Are you interested in funding the roll-out of this tool in another country? We would love to hear from you.