MEC Monitoring of Ministry Anti-Corruption plans: Ministry of Higher Education

During the review and analysis, MEC’s findings indicate that to some degree the MoHE worked to implement their Anti-Corruption Plan which consists of 25 activities, and eight indicators to achieve eight objectives.2 But these efforts are not meeting the MoHE’s outlined in the objectives of the ACP and as well as some main issues that had to be focused on. The activities and indicators in the Plan are largely relevant to those functions and processes of the Ministry which are potentially vulnerable to corruption. However, the problem with the Plan is its baselines, which are virtually non-existent. One of the main findings of this Review is the need to properly collect revenues from private educational institutions. The Plan also stipulated the establishment of a board or committee to monitor and evaluate the Ministry’s performance. However, during the research phase of MEC’s Review, this had not been established. In addition, the problem of students not writing their theses still exists, and there are no actions in the Plan to address this.