Anti-corruption - the activities of anti-corruption actors within their powers to prevent corruption, including the formation of an anti-corruption culture in society, the identification and elimination of the causes and conditions conducive to the commission of corruption offenses, as well as the identification, suppression, disclosure and investigation of corruption offenses and elimination of their consequences.
According to Article 6 of Chapter 2 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Combating Corruption", the system of anti-corruption measures includes:
1) anti-corruption monitoring;
2) analysis of corruption risks;
3) the formation of an anti-corruption culture;
3-1) carrying out scientific anti-corruption expertise of draft regulatory legal acts in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
4) identification of corruption-related norms in the production of legal expertise in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
5) formation and adherence to anti-corruption standards;
6) financial control;
7) anti-corruption restrictions;
8) prevention and resolution of conflicts of interest;
9) anti-corruption measures in the field of entrepreneurship;
10) identification, suppression, disclosure and investigation of corruption offenses;
11) reporting of corruption offenses;
12) elimination of the consequences of corruption offenses;
13) formation and publication of the National Report on Combating Corruption.
Among the above measures, anti-corruption monitoring plays an important role in the prevention of corruption crimes.
Anti-corruption monitoring is the activity of anti-corruption actors in collecting, processing, generalizing, analyzing and evaluating information regarding the effectiveness of anti-corruption policy, the state of law enforcement practice in the field of anti-corruption, as well as perception and assessment of the level of corruption by society.
The purpose of anti-corruption monitoring is to assess the law enforcement practice in the field of combating corruption.
Sources of anti-corruption monitoring are legal statistics and addresses of individuals and legal entities, information from non-governmental and international organizations, data from opinion polls and publications in the media, as well as other sources of information not prohibited by law.
The results of anti-corruption monitoring can be the basis for analyzing corruption risks, as well as improving measures aimed at creating an anti-corruption culture.