Ending Corruption:
Towards a collaborative strategy Prof. Syed Ahsanul
Alam*
E-mail: goodgovernancebd@gmail.com Corruption
in its all shades and color is the illegal tool of accumulating illegal
wealth depriving a person which creates inequality and social injustice.
Corruption destroys social order, rule of law and all good governance
efforts. Corruption and the corrupts are the enemies of the people and the
society in any country. That is why fighting corruption and installing
honesty is a pre condition for good governance for ensuring human rights,
human dignity, equality and social justice and better business
environment. Holding the
first position in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 5 consecutive
years has tarnished the image of Ending
Corruption: Naming and shaming strategy Naming and
shaming can be a very effective tactic to eradicate corruption in any
country. Even in developing countries, where corruption is accepted as a
necessary evil, naming and shaming tactic has been effective in recent
years. In Ending
Corruption: Creating awareness strategy among the
Stakeholders Everyday
policy makers, professionals, business leaders, sociologist, economists
and others independently generate amazing number of ideas and thoughts.
The reasons that these ideas don't come to fruition is because like-minded
reformers do seldom collaborate to bring changes. There are a lot of
international and domestic organizations, NGOs, government agencies,
opinion leaders and others – that are all individually working on tackling
corruption in a piece-meal fashion. A more comprehensive approach to
address corruption will be more fruitful. Corruption can be
marginalized if not eliminated if all stakeholders work together in a
coordinated manner against corruption. Ideas and thoughts are ineffective
if not put to actions. Unless what is thought is acted upon, such thought
has no value. What is important is the commitment of all the
citizens – leaders of respective fields– to take on the challenge of
ending corruption and to do one's own part to address it in a
collaborative manner. Corruption, as in all affairs in society may
be viewed from the two sides: a demand side and a supply
side. The demand side can only be curbed by
reforms of institutions, strengthened enforcement of law by a transparent
judiciary. As the owner of the country all citizens are affected by
corruption everyday, and as such they should insist reforms of the
legislative, executive and judicial organ of the country. The stake
holders of a corruption free society should get united to raise voice
against corruption to curve the supply side. Thus the citizens will
have to participate in the battle against corruption and only moral
support to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is not enough to
eliminate corruption. Ending Corruption: Creating
awareness among the Civil Society Citizens face potential corruption
practically at every level and every sector of life. It could be the local
police, T.N.T, electricity and water authority, Municipal Corporation or
the tax department. Government alone cannot succeed in combating
corruption without the active participation of civil society and citizen
action groups. Civil society is in the best position to articulate the
grievances of the citizen and highlight priorities of action on corruption
to governments. Civil society can serve many important roles–as observer,
critic, analyst, campaigner, or protestor. It can create public awareness
against corruption and mobilize citizens to fight against corruption in
ways that governments cannot. Civil society can also play a strong role to
organize campaigns against corruption. Center For Good Governance is
working with many civic organizations for capacity building of such
organization. Ending Corruption: Creating
awareness among Chambers and Trade Bodies As Civil society organizations,
Citizens' action groups, NGOs, media, and Chambers–can play the largest
role in improving governance both in the public and private sector.
Similarly Chambers can be more active by organizing seminars,
workshops, round tables to generate awareness against corruption and
unethical business practice. Chambers can establish anti
corruption cell headed by a vice president with adequate funds to
establish liaison with media, anti corruption commission (ACC) and other
government agencies to combat corruption and protect its members from
extortion and corrupt claims. Mega chambers should formulate code of
conduct for their members and put pressure on the members for
compliance. Awareness regarding code of conduct for members of
chambers would have trickle down effect on smaller business enterprises
and so on. Ending Corruption: Creating
awareness among Private Sector The private sector can play a more
active role in rooting out the supply side of corruption. It
is painful that most businessman and citizens looks at corrupt practice as
a system. According to unofficial estimates many business house just
account for it on their books – as much as 10% – adding to the cost of
doing business. Business leaders as well as the government should
take initiatives so that local and foreign investors can set up business
enterprise and function in For eradicating corruptions the
private sector must emphasize on internal controls and auditing
mechanisms. Corporate bodies and business houses needs to set clear
and enforceable policies against corrupt or unethical business
practices. Business house need to periodically train middle and
senior management on business ethics to ensure that standards are
institutionalized
throughout the organization.
Business houses should change their mind-set to prefer managers having
comprehensive business education with emphasis on ethics. Any
business managers can not afford to be unaware of global ethical standards
for doing business in Conclusion In a developing country for good
governance the fight against corruption is not easy.
No body will deny that, in
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Syed Ahsanul Alam is an Associate Professor of marketing at the University
of Chittagong, Bangladesh and Chairman, Center for Good Governance. His
recent administrative post includes vice rector IIBT
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