Systems Integrity Development™

UNISHKA created Systems Integrity Development™ (SID) to address internal control weakness and human factor deficiencies within an organization. Unlike Vulnerability to Corruption Assessments that uncover corruption, SID identifies existing and potential corruption risks, analyzes those risks, and then develops contextualized reforms to facilitate sustainable change. The final, and arguably most difficult, phase of an SID is to ensure that the approved reforms are implemented within the existing environment. These environments are often highly politicized with multiple groups, sects, tribes, or political parties receiving some benefit from corruption.

Key Aspects

Inclusive

The SID process involves an inclusive team of government, civil society, private sector and media actors.

Assessment & Analysis

SID uses an intelligence-led process to identify spheres of influence and develop legal, forensic, human factor and process assessments and analysis.

Vulnerable Populations

SID integrates the impact of corruption on vulnerable populations such as gender, religious minorities, ethnic minorities, etc.

Contextualized Solutions

Recommendations and reforms are contextualized to the society and culture of the region integrating the assessments and analysis and mindful of the spheres of influence.

Sustainable

Contextualized solutions developed with knowledge of spheres of influence and within the legal framework increase the sustainability of reforms.

Sector Neutral

SID has been deployed with success against multiple sectors including security, health, education and environment.

Mapping the ‘current state’ of an existing process, identifies internal control weaknesses and nodes of corruption that degrade system integrity.

UNISHKA’s link chart identifies two primary components: nodes of corruption and links to nodes of corruption.

Systems Integrity Development or SID is an innovative, systematic approach to identifying nodes of corruption and internal control weakness and mitigating or ameliorating those deficiencies. The success of SID derives from its ability to be deployed and have quantifiable success in environments where there is a lack of political will or where corruption networks undermine government services or public administration. Where there is strong political will, judicial infrastructure and a robust security apparatus, SID (with an equal emphasis on nodes of corruption and internal control weakness) can yield spectacular results in accordance with the goals of the government.

In instances where corrupt networks undermine political, judicial or security sectors, SID can be adjusted to focus on internal control weakness and systemic corruption, consequently strengthening the deficient sector without undermining fragile political coalitions or elite settlements. Similarly, in such fragile environments, SID can be deployed to target health, education, housing, electricity, environment or other civil sectors to enhance the provisioning of public services again without the disrupting delicate alliances upon which coalition governments are often based.