Global Program on Anticorruption for Development

The World Bank developed the Governance Risk Assessment System (GRAS), a tool that uses advanced data analytics to improve the detection of risks of fraud, corruption, and collusion in government contracting. GRAS increases the efficiency and effectiveness of audits and investigations by identifying a wide range of risk patterns.

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The Procurement AntiCorruption and Transparency platform (ProACT) provides access to national public procurement data for 46 countries and to contracts from the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank for over 100 countries from 2008 to 2020. Currently a prototype, the platform enables comparative and country-focused analysis of procurement contracts, buyers, suppliers and markets, and includes risk indicators that assess the integrity and transparency of these procurement processes for over 120 million contracts.

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With support from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management (KDI School), the program on Data Analytics for Anticorruption in Public Administration (DAAPA) sought to enhance the analysis and measurement of corruption risks and inform the World Bank's technical assistance in developing and implementing data driven solutions and evidence-based policies for controlling corruption. The Symposium brought together researchers working to advance anticorruption data analytics to help inform more effective policies and actions by governments for greater accountability in public administration.

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The Global Public Procurement Database aims to promote procurement reform and innovation by improved transparency and knowledge-sharing. The goal is to capture diagnostic procurement related information that is expected to form a common, worldwide standard for collecting and sharing information on public procurement focusing on governance, operations, systems and results per country. Provide substantial contribution for country procurement reforms and eProcurement implementations in order to increase development outcomes, and create appropriate channels for information dissemination and knowledge sharing, facilitating synergies between existing procurement communities.

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