Monitoring & review

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Anti-bribery and corruption procedures should be proportionate to risk of bribery and corruption faced by the organisation. Once in place, these procedures should be monitored, reviewed and evaluated. This is reinforced by MoJ principle 6—Monitoring and review.

This subtopic provides guidance on some of the ways organisations can monitor, review and evaluate their anti-bribery and corruption procedures and Precedent review and report tools. See Practice Note: How to monitor, review and evaluate your anti-bribery and corruption procedures.

Importance of monitoring systems

Effective monitoring and review is critical to the long-term sustainability of an organisation’s anti-bribery and corruption programme and to its ability to demonstrate

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