MOST GOVERNMENT SECTOR AGENCIES FAIL IN COMMITMENT TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN KUWAIT

  • 13/01/2022

Kuwait City: According to official data, the government agencies in charge of implementing the strategy to improve integrity and combat corruption failed to meet their obligations to the strategy until the end of September, when compared to their aim. The Central Agency for Public Tenders and the Central Agency for Information Technology both had the lowest level of commitment to the strategy, with each achieving one-tenth of the target – 0.1 percent out of one percent. Among the government institutions tasked with implementing the policy, the Ministry of the Interior (MoI) came in first. It had met all of its three-percentage-point commitments in full for the time period allotted. 


The Ministry of Higher Education came close to matching the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) in terms of implementation, achieving one percent of the targeted 1.4 percent, or roughly 68 percent. It is apparent that NAZAHA did not meet its targeted commitments to the strategy until the end of September last year. It achieved 18% of the target rate of 27%, which means that just nearly two-thirds of the authority's pledges to the strategy to improve integrity and combat corruption were digitally recorded. It is worth noting that the Nazaha report included five priorities on the axis of maintaining the integrity of the public sector and increasing the efficacy and efficiency of the public services it offers within a framework of transparency and accountability. 

As of September last year, the accomplished rate from the whole axis of "average attained by the five priorities" was 29 percent. This compares to a target attainment rate of 55 percent, implying a 26 percent difference between the accomplished and the target. Since December of last year, achievement in this axis has grown by 15%. Meanwhile, the Kuwait Institute for Judicial Studies met half of its promises for the stipulated period, achieving a success rate of 1% out of a target of 2%. This is the same proportion as the Joint Education Institute, which implemented 1% of a 2-percentage-point goal. 

Out of a total of 1.5 percent, the Supreme Judicial Council fulfilled 0.9 percent of its commitments. The Ministry of Education, it appears, was not far from the scope of bad performance in fulfilling its obligations to the strategy, as it achieved less than half of the target, 0.4 percent out of one percent. Perhaps the same issue exists with the Civil Service Commission, which has only implemented 4% of its commitments, compared to a target of 9%. The Ministry of Information fell short of its aim of executing its pledge by 0.6 percent out of a total of 2%.

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