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IFMIS, PEM, and Anti-corruption

Explore the potential of IFMIS technology to combat corruption in the public sector by enhancing financial management, information accessibility, control over spending, and risk identification. Understand the nexus between quality information, internal controls, and corruption cases for effective anti-corruption measures.

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IFMIS, PEM, and Anti-corruption

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  1. IFMIS, PEM, and Anti-corruption Bill Dorotinsky PREM Public Sector Governance Group April 21, 2005 Building ICT to Reduce Administrative Corruption

  2. Rationale for Reform • IFMIS generally adopted to • Improve management of public finances • Improve information availability for decision-makers, managers • Increase control over public spending • Support year-end account closing, preparation of the final accounts • Enable better analysis of costs, identify emerging risks • Rarely intended as anti-corruption tool from the beginning • Though automation of tax and customs directly may have anti-corruption as an objective

  3. Assumptions underlying the nexus with corruption • Quality information • comprehensive public finance system • accuracy of records • integrity of database • Other ‘soft’ systems functional • internal controls • reconciliation of bank, fiscal records • Internal and External Audits • Corruption within FMS domain

  4. Public corruption

  5. Cases • Canada • Advertising scandal • Ukraine • Tax reform • Turkey • Customs

  6. …and counter-pressures

  7. Summary • IFMIS/technology enabling tool for transparency and anticorruption • But not substitute for • attention to institutional environment (‘soft systems’) • underlying factors (e.g. comprehensiveness) • May not target prime areas of corruption

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