Anticorruption and Integrity

Project Procurement-Related Audits

The Integrity Division (OAGI) conducts project procurement-related audit (PPRAs) to identify and prevent internal control weaknesses that may allow fraud, corruption, or other forms of abuse to occur in ADB-financed projects.

Through PPRAs, OAGI also fulfills part of its mandate to support ADB’s efforts in strengthening supreme audit institutions (SAIs), especially the SAIs’ capacity to detect fraud, by sharing audit knowledge and best practices through jointly conducting the PPRAs.

General: to detect fraudulent and corrupt practices relating to procurement of goods and services through review of a project’s procurement, financial management, contract implementation, and project management practices in ADB-financed projects.

Specific:

• identify whether the procurement of project goods and works complied with ADB’s Procurement Guidelines and the relevant loan agreement
• determine whether contracts were implemented according to their terms
• ensure ADB’s funds were used for their intended purposes
• recommend improvements to internal controls to mitigate opportunities for fraud, corruption, or abuse in ADB-financed projects

Since 2003, OAGI has completed 16 PPRAs and 1 spot audit for various ADB projects. View highlights of these PPRAs in the links below:

Conductors nicely organized		New insulators stored at yard- disorganized and messy
Poorly built hospital		Sub-standard materials
Well constructed tunnel