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Pro Integrity Badge

The Pro Integrity Badge (Distintivo Pro Integridad) of Jalisco's State Comptroller's Office (Contraloría del Estado de Jalisco) is a badge that is awarded to companies that prove they have an integrity policy defined as the set of self-regulation elements and internal controls that allow mitigating and reducing corruption risks, as well as guaranteeing a culture of integrity within companies and organizations.

Innovation Summary

Innovation Overview

The Pro Integrity Badge was developed mainly to strengthen the implementation of mechanisms to prevent administrative misconduct and acts of corruption, fostering a culture of integrity based on the adoption of principles and values in a co-responsible manner in both the public and private sectors, all for the benefit of the citizens of the State of Jalisco. The construction of new public ethics is everyone's task, the recovery of society's trust in its institutions is a commitment of public servants and a priority for the Public Administration of the State of Jalisco. However, it is necessary to promote a culture of integrity based on the adoption of principles and values in a co-responsible manner in both the public and private sectors, ensuring at all times the rule of law for the benefit of the citizens of the State of Jalisco. In response to the priorities established in the National Anticorruption Policy, it is necessary to establish mechanisms that allow a strategic link between the Government of the State of Jalisco and the business sector, in order to promote a culture of integrity.

The innovation is based on the creation of an integrity policy which has, at least, the following elements: organization and procedures manual; code of conduct and/or code of ethics; control, monitoring and auditing systems; whistleblowing and whistleblowing promotion systems; training and coaching systems and processes. The main objective is to strengthen the implementation of mechanisms to prevent administrative misconduct and acts of corruption, fostering a culture of integrity based on the adoption of principles and values in a co-responsible manner in both the public and private sectors. The beneficiaries of this innovation project: public sector, citizens, organized civil society and private initiative with the expected result of increasing social involvement in the control of corruption through civic training processes from the state education system, and schemes of participation and social surveillance; Linked in turn, with the National Development Plan in the objective 1. 8 "improve the capacity to prevent and effectively combat corruption and impunity", in the cross-cutting axis 2 "fight corruption and improve public management"; and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of "peace, justice and strong institutions". The activity arises as an idea from the celebration of agreements between the CEJ with business chambers, such as the National Chamber of Commerce (CANACO), the Council of Industrial Chambers of Jalisco (CCIJ), the Employers' Confederation of the Mexican Republic (COPARMEX) and the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry (CMIC).

The purpose of this is to promote integrity policies and anti-corruption mechanisms in the business sector provided for in the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities (LGRA) and to adopt measures to encourage professional associations and other non-governmental organizations in their efforts to promote and assist companies -particularly SMEs- to develop internal controls, ethics and compliance programs or measures to prevent and detect bribery and corruption in international trade and investment.

Innovation Description

What Makes Your Project Innovative?

  • Differentiating aspect: Having the Pro Integrity Company registration provides companies with competitive advantages, since they are seen as a better option for doing business.
  • Integral Development: Having the Pro Integrity Company registration will be an indicator of the integral development of the company's employees, since constant training is guaranteed, as well as the highest hiring standards.

What is the current status of your innovation?

On June 11, 2021, the first call for registration for the Pro Integrity Business Badge was published, where 80 registrations were received from aspiring candidates to obtain the badge. After analysing whether the candidates complied with the necessary elements for a correct integrity policy, on March 30, 2022, at Casa Jalisco, together with the Governor of Jalisco, the awarding of the Pro Integrity Business Badge was made to 40 companies that complied with the elementary requirements of the integrity policy.

On January 27, 2021, the President of the Council of the Judiciary, who is a member of the Coordinating Committee, together with the Supreme Court of Justice and deputies of the Congress of the State of Jalisco, presented a draft reform to the Organic Law of the Judiciary of the State of Jalisco. The aforementioned with the purpose of establishing a universal registry of professional licenses, creating a single central office for notifiers and orienting administrative liability procedures to oral proceedings. One of the tools that supported the project were the Amendments to the Organic Law of the Judiciary, the main objective was to establish a universal registry and orient administrative liability proceedings to orality. This project is aimed at ensuring that the people of Jalisco have access to prompt and expeditious justice, and that oral administrative liability proceedings help to reduce corruption.

Innovation Development

Collaborations & Partnerships

The General Strategic Coordination for Economic Growth and Development and the State Comptroller's Office developed the Pro Integrity companies registry, harmonized with Article 25 of the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities.

Users, Stakeholders & Beneficiaries

Business sector: Refers to companies interested in participating in obtaining the Pro Integrity Badge. In addition to the support provided by the business chambers that serve as support in the communication with the companies and the Government of the State of Jalisco through the execution of collaboration agreements. Civil organizations: The mobilization in communication by civil organizations has been a great support in the dissemination of information.

Innovation Reflections

Results, Outcomes & Impacts

Companies have been encouraged to create their own integrity policy aligned with the seven elements of Article 25 of the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities. In the first edition of the Pro-Integrity Badge, 86 eighty-six companies were pre-registered, of which 40 forty completed the required procedures. All these actions that have been implemented jointly by the Government and the business sector have a relevant purpose: to recover and strengthen citizen confidence in government actions, in such a way that allows citizens to be certain that the promotion of a culture of integrity is the most important issue in the fight against corruption. In the year 2023 we expect to award the Pro Integrity Distinctive to a greater number of companies (200% more).

Challenges and Failures

With the entry into force of the National Anticorruption System, as well as its counterpart in the State of Jalisco, the need arose to make regulatory adjustments to various state laws in order to harmonize it with its provisions, such as the Law of Political and Administrative Responsibilities of the State of Jalisco, and even the Political Constitution of the State of Jalisco itself. In this sense, it is necessary to make regulatory adjustments to the Public Works Law of the State of Jalisco and its Municipalities, in order to harmonize it with the provisions of the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities and other applicable regulations, particularly the mechanism of the Integrity Policy contemplated in Article 25 of the aforementioned law.

Conditions for Success

Institutional coordination between the Comptroller's Office of the State of Jalisco and the General Strategic Coordination of Growth and Economic Development to create the design of the Pro Integrity Registry, the collaboration of the business sector to carry out the development of the integrity policy, so that they become pioneering leaders in the construction of a society with an integral promotion on a larger scale and the work team responsible for conducting the analysis for the delivery of the Distinctive to companies that prove to have an integrity policy aligned with the elements of the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities.

Replication

This project has been used by the Jalisco State Comptroller's Office in the effort to generate a culture of integrity through the business sector and its link with the Jalisco State Government, in collaboration with business chambers and international organizations that promote the development and adoption of compliance policies and anti-corruption programnes. In compliance with such actions, the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry CMIC and the State Comptroller's Office implemented collaboration tables to develop guidelines for a business integrity policy, harmonized with the provisions of Article 25 of the General Law of Administrative Responsibilities.

Lessons Learned

It is very important to know the business framework and how they work, for this purpose an exhaustive research was initiated in a specific manner that allows the analysis and evaluation of the implementation and operation of the Empresas Pro Integridad project. There is a close interaction and large volume of transactions between the public and private sectors, so that the promotion of business integrity has greater relevance for the development and adoption of anti-corruption policies and programmes. The methodology of the project consisted of the analysis of the specific components, as well as the report of activities regarding the commitments acquired by the project and their execution by those responsible.

Project Pitch

Status:

  • Implementation - making the innovation happen

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Date Published:

19 July 2023

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