Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for review of fraud/corruption control activities
- Identify current fraud/corruption prevention activities, taking into account the objectives of the organisation’s fraud/corruption control strategy, plan and procedures.
- Establish timetable for evaluation and review.
- Gather information from relevant areas across the organisation.
- Include perspectives of staff and management, clients and reporting organisations in the assessment.
- Assess the ability of control activities to minimise fraud and corruption
- Assess implementation of the organisation’s fraud/corruption control plan and activities in terms of progress in areas relevant to the organisation.
- Conduct assessment taking into account core business and broader management activities of the organisation and utilising knowledge of best practice initiatives in fraud/corruption prevention.
- Assess effectiveness of performance indicators in collecting fraud/corruption control information.
- Assess efficacy of mechanisms to assist staff to minimise fraud/corruption.
- Assess efficacy of fraud/corruption control awareness-raising activities against their objectives.
- Provide advice and recommend action to improve effectiveness of fraud/corruption controls
- Provide advice based on significant knowledge of the organisation’s culture, structures, programs and services, and constraints under which the organisation is operating.
- Recommend options for action, based on consultation with stakeholders, and balance strict compliance with operational and political pressures.
- Revise, as a result of consultation with stakeholders, fraud/corruption control objectives that are found to be unrealistic, and provide advice regarding amendment to the fraud/corruption control strategy and procedures.
- Report on the effectiveness of fraud/corruption control activities in the organisation.
- Prepare for review of fraud/corruption control activities
- Identify current fraud/corruption prevention activities, taking into account the objectives of the organisation’s fraud/corruption control strategy, plan and procedures.
- Establish timetable for evaluation and review.
- Gather information from relevant areas across the organisation.
- Include perspectives of staff and management, clients and reporting organisations in the assessment.
- Assess the ability of control activities to minimise fraud and corruption
- Assess implementation of the organisation’s fraud/corruption control plan and activities in terms of progress in areas relevant to the organisation.
- Conduct assessment taking into account core business and broader management activities of the organisation and utilising knowledge of best practice initiatives in fraud/corruption prevention.
- Assess effectiveness of performance indicators in collecting fraud/corruption control information.
- Assess efficacy of mechanisms to assist staff to minimise fraud/corruption.
- Assess efficacy of fraud/corruption control awareness-raising activities against their objectives.
- Provide advice and recommend action to improve effectiveness of fraud/corruption controls
- Provide advice based on significant knowledge of the organisation’s culture, structures, programs and services, and constraints under which the organisation is operating.
- Recommend options for action, based on consultation with stakeholders, and balance strict compliance with operational and political pressures.
- Revise, as a result of consultation with stakeholders, fraud/corruption control objectives that are found to be unrealistic, and provide advice regarding amendment to the fraud/corruption control strategy and procedures.
- Report on the effectiveness of fraud/corruption control activities in the organisation.