OECD Integrity Review of Thailand 2021.
The OECD Integrity Review of Thailand 2021 assesses three key elements of Thailand's integrity system: disciplinary mechanisms and sanctions, risk management, and integrity in policy and decision making in the public sector.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2021.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009703571706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- 1 Ensuring a fair, effective and coherent disciplinary system for public officials in Thailand
- Introduction
- Overview of disciplinary proceedings for public officials in Thailand
- Ensuring fairness, objectivity and timeliness
- The types and classification of disciplinary breaches are clearly defined, supporting consistent application of the legal framework
- Additional safeguards are needed to strengthen the integrity of supervising officials and ensure the fair imposition of sanctions
- Establishing registries of trained disciplinary investigators or piloting "shared" disciplinary services would help improve the quality of disciplinary investigations
- Establishing reasonable timeframes for the conclusion of each step of the investigation is needed to ensure timeliness and efficiency
- Promoting co-operation and exchange of information among institutions and entities
- Enhancing the co-operation between actors involved in the disciplinary enforcement regimes, for example by promoting regular meetings to exchange good practices
- To improve co-ordination and exchange of information, Thailand could consider the development of an electronic case management tool
- Strengthening the co-ordinating role of the NACC to facilitate the exchange of information between the criminal and disciplinary regime and ensure a coherent approach to investigations
- Encouraging transparency about the effectiveness of the disciplinary system and the outcomes of cases
- Strengthening the monitoring role of the OCSC on disciplinary enforcement and developing a framework to measure the efficiency, fairness and quality of the disciplinary system
- References
- Notes
- 2 Integrity risk management in Thailand: Immediate challenges and areas for improvement
- Introduction.
- Ensuring clarity of roles and making good governance a central theme
- Enhance the focus on integrity in standards and rules, and clarify roles and responsibilities within the internal control system
- Refine communication strategies to demonstrate the added value of risk management for safeguarding integrity and improving governance
- Overcoming implementation challenges to better manage and assess integrity risks
- Improve risk management guidance, including clarifying the purpose of different types of risk assessments
- Strengthen capacity and knowledge for assessing and managing risks at the regional level
- Enhancing monitoring and evaluation, as well as quality assurance assessments
- Develop plans for monitoring and evaluation of internal control and risk management with a specific focus to safeguard integrity in government
- Ensure the independence and objectivity of quality assurance assessments
- References
- Notes
- 3 Ensuring transparency and integrity in Thailand's public decision making
- Introduction
- Fostering regulations on stakeholder engagement and participation in policy making
- Thailand could initiate discussions to develop clear and comprehensive regulations on interactions between stakeholders and public officials
- Thailand could include specific guidelines on the processes, methods and timeframes for stakeholder engagement in the new Act on Public Consultation
- Promoting transparency and access to information on decision making
- Thailand could consider including in the new Official Information Law guidance for citizens requesting public information and a more detailed mandate and requirements for the Information Commission
- Thailand could consider providing a legislative footprint and making legislative discussions open to the public.
- Thailand may consider requiring policy makers to make their agendas open and accessible to the public
- Thailand could consider increasing the level of transparency with respect to the composition and activities of advisory bodies in the executive and legislative branches
- Strengthening enforcement and stakeholder engagement awareness raising
- Thailand could further its efforts to centralise and systematise all information (including statistical data) concerning public consultations by developing a single platform
- Thailand may develop awareness-raising campaigns and communication efforts to strengthen citizens' rights to introduce legislation
- References.
