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www.adb.org/IntegrityIssue 3, September 2008

This is the third issue of Anticorruption and Integrity e-bulletin. In this issue, find out how to report allegations of fraud and corruption. It also includes OAGI's efforts in enhancing development effectiveness, anticorruption advisories, and integrity publications.

Feature: Report Allegations of Fraud and Corruption

Whether we want to hear them or not, complaints are important. Complaints are the way that people let other people know that something is wrong. Complaints may provide an opportunity to make things right. They may correct an unjust situation. They may serve to let someone blow off steam and release frustrations. Sometimes complaints do all three. Read more.

Enhancing Development Effectiveness

To contribute fully to development effectiveness, ADB's internal processes must reflect the highest levels of integrity. OAGI (with the Office of the Auditor General, Financial, Administrative, and Information Systems Division (OAGF), concerned departments, and Budget, Personnel, and Management Systems Department) has assisted ADB to reorientate staffs' understanding of ADB's values and integrity. OAGI achieves this, in part, through thorough investigations, which in turn lead to business systems reforms. Read more.

Advisories

Maintain Personal Integrity at All Times
Improper use of ADB's assets and inappropriate activity in your office may constitute misconduct, which is subject to disciplinary action. Your office is your workplace. Limit activities in your office to those related to your official duties, though reasonable personal use is acceptable. To determine what is appropriate, ask yourself

If the answer is “yes”, you should avoid such activity.


Sanction Violation of M/S Pias Construction, Bangladesh
M/S Pias Construction (also known as M/S. Piash Construction, M/S Piash Construction, M/S. Pias Construction, M/S Piash Constr., M/S. Pias Enterprise, Pias Construction, M/S. Pias, and Piash Construction) has been caught violating its sanction on numerous occasions. Therefore, its sanction has been extended until at least 12 August 2018. Any staff assisting a sanctioned entity to violate its sanction will be subject to disciplinary action.


No ADB Office in Dubai
Be cautious of a person introducing himself as Chief Coordinator of a Wind Energy Project under ADB in Dubai who could offer a job in exchange of money. ADB has 26 field offices and operates in its developing member countries only.


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Publications

Frequently Asked Questions on Anticorruption and Integrity

This publication offers introductory answers to frequently asked questions about ADB's anticorruption policy. ADB expects its staff to observe the highest ethical standards and to exercise behavior that reflects favorably upon their position as employees of an international organization and as international civil servants.




Anticorruption and Integrity: Policies and Strategies – Lao version

This Lao version was published in July 2008. Read the English version.

 

 

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