Transparency International2019-09-252019-09-252011-04-032006-05http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/177426"In 2005 the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) was ranked 2nd on Transparency International – Kenya’s (T.I.-Kenya) annual Kenya Bribery Index (KBI)1, sending shockwaves of alarm through the Kenyan education sector and the TSC in particular. As a result, discussions between T.I.-Kenya and the TSC intensifi ed and lead to a ‘consultative meeting’ on April 28th 2005 between the two parties. The meeting served as both an explanatory exercise, whereby TI-Kenya could explain its KBI and the reasons it believed to be behind the TSC poor performance, as well as an opportunity to further develop methods the TSC could employ to combat the levels of perceived and actual corruption. In taking these positive steps the TSC hoped to avoid a repeat of such performance on the KBI and limit the damage done to the Commission’s image both within its own ranks and to the outside world. This ‘integrity study’, mooted at that meeting as a possible tool in helping to understand and subsequently fi ght corruption within the organisation, is the culmination of this earlier cooperation between T.I.-Kenya and the TSC. It should also be noted that T.I.-Kenya and the TSC, following the enactment of the Public Offi cer Ethics Act (POEA) in 2003, had previously worked together with USAID and the former GoK Department of Governance and Ethics on a proposed project to computerise the wealth declaration exercise. The TSC and the PSC were identifi ed to pilot the project which devised a computerised system to capture the wealth declaration forms. However due to a number of factors, most notably long delays, the project unfortunately did not ultimately go ahead. In September 2005 the GoK Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs hosted a forum to look into the “Effi cacy of the Wealth Declaration Exercise” in which the computerisation of systems was recommended by the TSC however this suggestion did not fi nd its way into the formal recommendations and resolutions arising from the workshop."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderintegrityethics educationCommunity ethicsEducation and ethicsLearning object