Absolutely.
Most OECD countries and some non-OECD member countries have strategies. First, interestingly enough, since we started tracking developments in this area in member and non-member countries two or three years ago, we have seen a growing number of countries adopt their first national strategy. Second, the most effective strategies have the highest quality. High-quality national strategies or strategic national objectives include the capacity to implement a monitoring and evaluation system.
A coordinated national strategy allows for that. It makes it possible to track implementation, evaluate the impact and inform subsequent national strategies. We drew on that point to make our finding, in the document, that national strategies have a positive impact on a country's anti-corruption and integrity system, especially when the strategies have monitoring and evaluation systems that allow governments and public authorities to determine the impacts of the strategies and to draw conclusions. There is less scope for that in a more fragmented system.
