Transparencia Mexicana was one of Transparency International’s first chapters in Latin America to promote the use of Integrity Pacts starting in the late 1990s. The Mexican government developed the IP idea into a novel institution of “Social Witnesses” or testigos social in 2004.

Transparency International's chapter in Honduras, Associación por una Sociedad mas Justa (ASJ), has been serving as the civil society monitor overseeing the implementation of an Integrity Pact applied to all public procurement of medicines in Honduras since 2014.

Case study

View our Integrity Pacts Case Study: Medicines procurement in Honduras – How Integrity Pacts helped bring transparency, fair competition and value to a deeply corrupt sector. 

In 2017, the Salvadoran National Fund for Road Maintenance signed an Integrity Pact with the economic contractors for a road construction project enumerating various integrity, anti-corruption, and transparency obligations. The Integrity Pact appointed all citizens to serve as social witnesses to the IP, inviting anyone to submit a written request for information should there be concerns about the contracting process.

Between 2009 and 2014, the Ministry of Public Works of El Salvador applied 31 Integrity Pacts in the context of five major public works contracts. Two civil society organisations served as monitors: FUNDE (the El Salvador Chapter of Transparency International: Fundación Nacional para el Desarrollo) and the Social Initiative for Democracy. The Ministry and CSO organisations collaborated to draft an Integrity Pact model that would be suitable for the Salvadoran legal framework.

In 2002, the Latin American Corporation for Development (LCD) - the then-recognised chapter of Transparency International - signed a Cooperation Agreement to serve as civil society monitor to oversee the Integrity Pact applied between two state telecommunications bodies and bidders for the auction of bands and sub-bands of telecommunications channel.

As a precursor to an Integrity Pact, the Ecuadorian government required all bidders for a major refinery rehabilitation project sign a "corporate commitment" as a pledge to refrain from bribery in the tender process.

Additional information

• Language: Spanish
• Start year: 1993
• End year: 1993
• Tender value: USD 160 million

Ecuador had at least two early experiences applying an Integrity Pact and a similar IP-like “corporate commitment” in 1993 and again in 2002.

Transparency International's UK and Colombian chapters collaborated with the Colombian Ministry of Defence in 2004 to introduce a Defence Integrity Pact to oversee the acquisition of critical drug interdiction aircraft. The civil society monitors provided two technical experts with military and defence acquisition backgrounds to support the Ministry and bidders clarify the technical specifications of the tender.

Transparencia por Colombia (TpC)– Transparency International’s chapter in that country – was the leading TI chapter to pilot the use of Integrity Pacts at a large scale. After conducting a comprehensive review of corruption risks in public procurement, TpC launched a strategy in May 1999 to promote the use of Integrity Pacts to oversee tenders and contracting. By 2008, TpC had served as the civil society monitor for 62 Integrity Pacts applied to 85 tenders with a total value of USD 3.200 million.

In 2003, the Argentine Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology adopted an Integrity Pact for a largescale textbook procurement process that was receiving significant financing from the Inter-American Development Bank. The IP was signed between all interested bidders, and Poder Ciudadano - TI's chapter in Argentina - served as civil society monitor for the IP. The IP was accompanied by public hearings on the selection criteria and bidding documents, as well as a focus on avoiding conflicts of interest.