It is rated the least corrupt country in Africa, according to an international corruption watchdog, Transparency International.

In 2000, Dileep Nair, the UN corruption watchdog, wanted to determine the programme's level of vulnerability.

Dikshit has hit back at the lokayukta, stating: " can't be the sole judge of what is unethical " and the anti-graft watchdog should " limit itself to core corruption issues ".

* Laches: A general who had led a small Athenian force to Sicily in 427 and who had proposed the one year truce in 423, he is mentioned in line 240 and he appears as the good watchdog accused of stealing a Sicilian cheese, suggesting that Cleon was in fact intending to prosecute him for corruption.

In May 2012, the government ’ s corruption watchdog, Investigation Task Force Sweep, drew up a warrant for Nape ’ s arrest in relation to the alleged misappropriation of $ 2. 4 million in development funds, charges which Nape has denied.

After being rehabilitated again, he built up a sound reputation as a reformer and a corruption watchdog.

In 2010, the Project On Government Oversight, a government watchdog group, presented Maloney with its Good Government Award for her contributions to government transparency and oversight, including her investigations into corruption and mismanagement in the Mineral Management Service and her support of a Federal Contractor Misconduct Database similar to POGO's.

The array of topics for watchdog journalism is wide and includes " personal scandals, financial wrongdoing, political corruption, enrichment in public office, and other types of wrongdoing ".

In a country that guarantees freedom of the press, watchdog journalism can be " a highly effective mechanism of external control on corruption ".

That an organization of this character should have outlived its usefulness and ushered in intolerable abuses, such as corruption was inevitable ; from the mid-fifteenth century protests were raised against the enormities of the court.

* Transparency International, a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development

A broad report commissioned by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the causes of misconduct in policing calls it " a simplistic explanation that permits the organization and senior management to blame corruption on individuals and individual faults – behavioural, psychological, background factors, and so on, rather than addressing systemic factors.

They had not learned the charm of open, honest, outspoken resistance to oppression and through their secret organization you wrought their ruin — we defy you, and all the informers and detectives that British corruption ever bred.

Many common beliefs about social organization, such as " Increasing police decreases crime ", or " corruption can be combatted by legislation " imply a first-order mechanism.

The differences and contradictions between Bosch and an important sector of the PRD, as well as the corruption that had started to grow within the party, made him leave the organization in 1973, and thus he founded the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) on December 15 of that same year.

Even when his suicide is many times linked to the Foundation ’ s financial difficulties, the letter clearly shows Favaloro overwhelmed by the corruption of the health system and feeling that he cannot fight against this powerful organization.

Unification would help the central organization fight corruption, yet would not contaminate the CIO unions.

At various times in its history, the organization has faced corruption scandals, most notably under the administration of Werner Nachmann, involving financial irregularities.

In July 2006, the Polish sports minister criticized the PZPN ( Polish Football Association ) for failing to take adequate steps to fight corruption, and announced an audit of the organization.

On September 4, at Cooper Union, a large organization of reputed citizens was formed known as the Committee of Seventy, that investigated the corruption of Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall Ring.

Throughout his political life, DeSapio gained notoriety from alleged involvement with organized crime, even though he fought to distance the organization from the unsavory days of Boss Tweed, and allegations of corruption.

The Center for Public Integrity ( CPI ) is a US-based nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is " to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty, integrity, accountability and to put the public interest first.

The corruption of Thaelmann's Hamburg organization and its protection by the Stalin faction in Moscow was used as a pretext for Brandler and Thalheimer to issue a call for a meeting of their followers on November 11, 1928.

( born 1975 in Snina, Slovakia ) is head of Transparency International Slovakia, a chapter of Transparency International, a global non-governmental organization devoted to fighting corruption.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (; often abbreviated to 中纪委 ) is an organization run under the National Congress of the Communist Party of China charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among party cadres.

* Project on Government Oversight, a non-profit organization which investigates corruption and other misconduct

The club fell into great debt after many accusations of corruption within the organization.

In addition, the term can be used as a metaphor for grave underlying problems within a large organization ( such as political corruption in government or low morale in the armed forces ) that show no symptoms until a sudden, catastrophic failure, much as dry rot of wood in ships caused catastrophic failure.

Favoritism, petty in-fighting, and criminal corruption in the college organization caused Babka to seek other outlets to make a difference.

On September 22, 2009, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ( ACORN ) announced that Harshbarger and Proskauer " would lead an independent inquiry into the organizational systems and processes surrounding the social services of the organization " pursuant to the recent allegations of corruption within that organization in the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.

The organization has collectively testified before Congressional committees in the U. S. House of Representatives and Senate to demand that Congress act to end government retaliation against those who expose corruption, misdeeds and errors in the realm of U. S. national security.

Transparency International's overview of the index of perception of corruption, 2010

Additionally, Transparency International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to achieving Universal Primary Education in Africa.

However, this is viewed as a fraction of the actual total volume trafficked and widespread corruption continues to hamper government anti-drug efforts ; Transparency International gave Kazakhstan a score of 2. 2, on a scale of 0-10 with 0 indicating a " highly corrupt " state.

In 2009, Transparency International ranked the nation in last place on its annual Corruption Perceptions Index ( CPI ), a metric that purports to show the prevalence of corruption in a country's public sector.

World map of the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, which measures " the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians ".

In the corruption indices drawn up by the anti-graft organisation Transparency International, Kenya routinely trail near the bottom ..., viewed as only slightly less sleazy than Nigeria or Pakistan ..."

* Transparency International, an international organisation devoted to fighting corruption.

After series of major corruption scandals including most prominently Rywin affair, Transparency International rated Poland as the most corrupt state in 2003 of the then 25 EU members.

In the past, this has contributed to a sense of immunity on the part of members of the ruling party, and to a public perception of rampant corruption among leading politicians – in 1997, Pakistan received the second-worst score in the world on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.

* 2002: Became a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, designed to reduce bribery and corruption by disclosing revenue and payments, and to drive sustainable development.

Transparency International includes Bakun Dam in its ‘ Monuments of corruption ’ Global Corruption Report 2005.

This assists in maintaining objectivity throughout the report and ensures it does not just act as an advertisement for the interests of Transparency International in eradicating corruption.

Transparency has been shown to improve service delivery and to reduce opportunities for diversion and therefore corruption.

Transparency International's 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, which compares countries according to the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians, ranked Singapore in joint first place with Denmark and New Zealand out of 178 countries.