TI-Zambia has used an Integrity Pact to promote transparency and engage citizen monitoring to oversee the construction of clean drinking water facilities.

Additional information

• Monitor: Transparency International Zambia
• Language: English

The Transparency International Zambia chapter has promoted the use of Integrity Pacts in public works procurement at the local level in several instances. Its emphasis has been on playing a coordinating role in liaising between the contracting authorities and economic actors on the one hand and local citizens on the other. TI Zambia believes these efforts have resulted in growing public trust in government procurement and cost savings due to the pressure of external monitoring.

Transnet is a South African state-owned rail, port, and pipeline company. It has developed an Integrity Pact that it requires suppliers and bidders to sign when engaging with the company. The IP does not trigger any particular monitoring oversight.

Eskom is a South African public utility company. It has developed an Integrity Pact that it requires suppliers and bidders to sign when engaging with the company. The IP does not trigger any particular monitoring oversight.

At least two South African state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have developed Integrity Pacts that it requires all suppliers or bidders to sign when engaging with the company or participating in a tender. The relevant IP texts from these SOEs indicate integrity and anti-corruption obligations of the supplier/bidder as well as obligations of the contracting authority. The IPs do not establish independent monitoring procedures.

In 2016, TI-Rwanda used Integrity Pacts to oversee the tender process of nine infrastructure projects in four districts. The tender value was approximately USD 17 million.

The Integrity Pacts were accompanied by various forms of civil society procurement monitoring and citizen engagement. The use of IPs and civic monitoring in these projects had numerous positive impacts on the procurement process.

To achieve the objective of reducing the incidence of corruption and unethical conduct, the Kenya Integrity Plan 2015 – 2019 encouraged the signing of Integrity Pacts by private sector actors in various tender proceedings. Since then, a myriad of tenders – issued both by public sector contracting authorities as well as private sector buyers – have made the signing of Integrity Pacts a mandatory pre-requisite for bidders participating in a tender.