Gwangju City Participates as Target Institution in Integrity Consulting Led by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 25th that it will participate as a target institution in the '2021 Integrity Consulting' organized by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Anti-Corruption Commission).

The Anti-Corruption Commission received applications from 20 groups (mentor and mentee institutions) wishing to participate in this year's integrity consulting, and after considering the institutions' commitment and the effectiveness of the consulting, finally selected 11 groups (11 mentor institutions and 22 mentee institutions).

Integrity consulting is a support policy in which the Anti-Corruption Commission scientifically diagnoses the processing procedures of corruption-prone tasks, organizational culture and practices, and the effectiveness of corruption control devices to provide customized measures for each institution to improve the integrity of public institutions.

This year, 11 mentor institutions composed of institutions with excellent integrity and anti-corruption experts are paired with 22 mentee institutions seeking in-depth diagnosis and prescriptions in corruption-prone areas, and group-based integrity consulting will be conducted from the 26th.

Gwangju City will seek ways to improve integrity by participating in this consulting together with Nam-gu, Gwangju, using Jeju Island, which was a second-grade integrity institution last year, as the mentor institution.

Starting with the integrity consulting meeting, the process will proceed in the order of ▲ integrity capability diagnosis such as surveys targeting members of various institutions ▲ practical consulting meetings to identify problems with field personnel in each sector, local civic groups, and external experts ▲ autonomous meetings for benchmarking excellent policies ▲ and a final report meeting to establish improvement plans.

Along with the consulting led by the Anti-Corruption Commission, Gwangju City plans to establish and vigorously implement a concrete action plan for the integrity improvement measures recommended by the City Administration Innovation Promotion Committee on the 18th.

Lee Gap-jae, Chairman of the City Audit Committee, said, “Based on the integrity consulting and the recommendations of the City Administration Innovation Promotion Committee, we will strive to increase administrative trust and fundamentally eliminate factors that cause corruption throughout city administration,” adding, “We will do our best to make this year a year to solidify the foundation of Integrity Gwangju.”

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