23. When you first contacted the service, what information were you given
by the service about how to use it?
(none/spoken/written/spoken and written)
24. How helpful was the information given by the service?
25. Did you know how to make a complaint about the service?
26. Did you actually make a complaint about the service?
27. How many different staff did you meet in your dealings with the service?
28. Did you use the help of a broker or agent in dealing with the service?
29. How much did you have to pay the broker?
30. Did you have to pay anything extra, in money or goods, (apart from official
charges) to people in the service to get your problem dealt with?
31. Did the person(s) concerned ask you for money or goods or did you pay
on your own initiative?
32. How much did you have to pay extra to service workers to get your
problem dealt with?
33. If you did not make any extra payments to service workers:
Were you asked for any extra payment, in money or goods, but you
refused?
Did you offer any extra payment but it was refused by the service
worker?
34. What do you think about the practice of paying extra (bribes) to service
workers in order to get a service in favor?
35. What forms of corruption do you think happen in this district?
36. How much of a problem do you think there is with corruption in public
services in this District?
37. Has this problem gotten better, stayed the same or gotten worse in the
last two years?
38. Which government departments or agencies in this district are the most
corrupt, in your opinion?
39. Which departments or agencies are the least corrupt?
40. What do you think the national government should do to solve the
problem of corruption in public services?
41. What do you think the local government in this district should do to
solve the problem of corruption in public services?
42. What do you think communities themselves could do to help solve the
problem of corruption in public services?
43. Have you heard of the Inspectorate of Government (the IGG)?
44. What does IGG do?
45. Have you ever made a complaint to the IGG?
46. How satisfied were you with the way the IGG dealt with your complaint?
Source: The questionnaire was sponsored by the World Bank and Uganda. The results
are reported in “Uganda National Integrity Survey 1998: Final Report” (August 1998), CIET
International.
Annex 4.B: Trained Observer Procedures
Trained observers can be used to rate a variety of important outcomes that
can be documented by the eyes or other physical senses of an observer. Its
familiar form is in inspection functions, such as for buildings, health, and
food safety. A key requirement for performance measurement is that the rating
scales and procedures provide reasonably accurate ratings.
A high degree of accuracy can be maintained if the procedures provide
_ a well-defined rating system
_ adequate training and supervision of the observers and the process
_ a procedure for periodically checking the quality of the ratings
Trained observer ratings—if properly done—reduce the subjectivity in
assessing physical conditions such as street cleanliness. Ratings scales, if properly
developed, provide trained observers with specific criteria against which
to assess conditions in a reliable manner.Without such common criteria to
assess conditions, different observers will likely come up with different ratings
for a condition.Well-defined rating scales reduce the subjectivity in condition
assessments.
The goal is for different observers, at different times, to give approximately
the same ratings to similar conditions.
Applications of Trained Observer Ratings
For observer ratings to be applied to a particular outcome,the outcome should
_ be measurable by physical observation—through any of the five senses:
sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch (though most applications in the
public sector, thus far, have used sight)
_ be one that can be rated on a scale that identifies variations in condition
Examples of Outcomes for Which Trained Observer Ratings Have
Been Used to Provide Data
_ cleanliness of roads and alleys
_ condition of roads
_ condition of parks
_ condition of facilities such as schools, nursing homes, and hospitals
_ condition of housing
_ Quality of food provided in publicly supported facilities (taste, smell, and
sight can be used)
_ Ability of handicapped clients to perform activities o