General corruption risk approaches applicable to the health sector Overview of actors
The first part of this lesson deals with Corruption Risk Assessments (CRA). A CRA “is a (diagnostic) tool which seeks to identify weaknesses within a system which may present opportunities for corruption to occur. It differs from many other corruption assessment tools in that it focuses on the potential for – rather than the perception, existence or extent of – corruption. At its core, a risk assessment tends to involve some degree of evaluation of the likelihood of corruption occurring and/or the impact it would have should it occur.”
The goal of a CRA is not to measure levels of corruption, nor to uncover effective cases, but rather to identify vulnerabilities at different levels and define red flags (early warning indicators) that help design adequate measures and policies to prevent and investigate corruption.