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Reporting

• asset declarations (natural resources, capital)
• annual reports
• build media capacity or NGO reporting capacity

Public Participation

• public notification procedures
• public participation procedures
• access to information procedures
• citizen participation in development of policies
• citizen participation in development of spending priorities
• citizen participation in development of service provision
• citizen participation in improvement of local governance

Capacity in Oversight Institutions

Example of oversight institution - the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is responsible, under U.S. federal law, for some environmental protection programs, which the EPA delegates to the States for administration, with EPA oversight for QA/QC purposes.

References

• Draft Paper (8 September 2006): "Strengthening Bank Group Engagement on Governance and Anti-Corruption" (603 kb PDF), World Bank

• Helping Countries Build and Implement Effective Anti-Corruption Strategies, in: New Empirical Tools for Anti-Corruption and Institutional Reform, by World Bank.