Integrity & Transparency Assessment (ITA) in the Government Sectors and the Prevention of Corruption in Various Forms
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The article, “Integrity & Transparency Assessment (ITA) in Government Sectors and Prevention of Corruption in Various Forms” contains questions that are taken into consideration. Once implementing ITA or Integrity & Transparency Assessment in the government sectors, whether mechanisms or measures of this tool can prevent various forms of corruption? Should there be guidelines for improvement to achieve the anti-corruption goals and how to accomplish? To answer key issues of this article, it will start from considering various forms of corruption from the facts that happened in Thailand to see the overview of the nature of corruption. Before analyzing the answer, we must understand the principle and guidelines to be applied in the prevention of corruption which is determined by the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 (2017), including law or legal provisions that encourage the implementation of ITA to prevent corruption. When we understand the rationale behind the ITA, the main issues to consider is whether the ITA can be applied to real forms of corruption. What are the purposes and mechanisms of the ITA? When analyzing the ITA deployment with facts, the results are the benefits and constraints that arise, which will lead to conclusions and recommendations to improve ITA to achieve maximum efficiency according to the target goals. Therefore, this article is structured as follows: 1. Facts, Forms and Characteristics of Corruption 2. Guidelines for preventing corruption under the Constitution of the year 2560 3. ITA Purpose and Mechanism 4. Analyze ITA and Anti-Corruption 5. Conclusi, Constitutionalism-Goodgovernant, Constitutionalism-Good Governance, Good Governance, ITA, Integrity & Transparency Assessment, prevent various forms of corruption, corruption brake, ิbreak, corruption brake equalityAbstract
The article, “Integrity & Transparency Assessment (ITA) in Government Sectors and Prevention of Corruption in Various Forms”, is a study of the principles, mechanisms or measures of ITA or the assessment of integrity and transparency in the operation of government agencies and applying it to the facts of corruption. This is to find out whether ITA can prevent various forms of corruption and to explore ways to improve ITA to meet the anti-corruption goals.
For the methodology of this article, it will start from considering various forms of corruption from the facts that happened in Thailand to see the overview of the nature of corruption and bring the conclusions from the facts to analyze.
The study will use the method of collecting facts from documents (Documentary Research). The analysis shall start from understanding the principles and guidelines to be applied in preventing and troubleshooting corruption. It will be considered from the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 including legal principles, legislative provisions supporting the adoption of an Integrity and Transparency Assessment (ITA) to understand the rationale behind the ITA. Then, considering the principles of ITA, which consist of concepts, objectives and mechanisms. All of these methods are based on documentary research. When the ITA principles are analyzed and applied to the facts, the results of the study are efficiency and constraints. This leads to a conclusion that ITA still has restrictions on preventing some forms of corruption. Therefore, a preliminary suggestion was proposed to improve ITA to achieve maximum efficiency according to the target goals.
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