Corruption Risk Assessment is currently a trending topic in the anti-corruption agenda of the major international organizations. Recently, several guides and tools were developed by such organizations to introduce this methodology among their Member States. However, companies and institutions from both public and private sector are still reluctant to use it through a combination of lack of education and lack of promotion.
This paper will analyze four key corruption risk assessment manuals developed by organizations on international and regional level as well as NGOs – UN Global Compact, CoE, TI and UNDP.
It will aim to present new ideas on how to further improve existing CRA methodologies, how to encourage adoption of this methodology by more countries and companies to use them and increase cooperation amongst countries to do so. Through this study we will try to address the main issues that organizations are experiencing in applying CRA as part of their anti-corruption efforts.
Our research questions are:
• Are the messages regarding CRA consistent across the key guidance materials?
• How can these key guides be better utilized to combat corruption?
• How can these guides be better applied in conducting CRA?
For the purposes of this study we are planning to employ comparative technique known as casual analysis based on systematic qualitative comparison. In particular, we aim to use limited number of variables to compare the four corruption risk assessment guides. Thus, we will be able to conduct an overall qualitative analysis, which will allow us to provide an answer to the research questions mentioned above.
