Are facilitation payments illegal? If so:
How effective is the legal framework to discourage them?
Are mechanisms in place to punish offenders? How effectively are they applied?
In practice, what is the occurrence of facilitation payment (whether they are illegal or not)? Please note the definition of facilitation payments is payments (money or goods) made to government official to perform or speed up the performance of an existing duty. Some Assessors assess this in terms of bribery.
Media reports are useful here.