Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption

This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability.The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability and the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption.

"If we are to effectively fight corruption, it must be seen in the broader context of public management: governance, accountability, and legal and institutional frameworks. The challenge for developing countries is even greater because of scarce resources, poor auditing and policing capabilities, and struggling institutions such as the courts and the media. This book assists in analyzing the problems in ways that will enable us to develop the correct strategies to deal with corruption." --Ismail Momoniat, Deputy Director-General (Acting), Economic Policy and International Relations, National Treasury, Pretoria, South Africa

"This work is a significant contribution to the recognition that democratic oversight of government and accountability are fundamental in fighting corruption and achieving effective public sector governance." --Honorable John Williams, Member of Parliament, Canada, Chairperson, Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada