Recommendations

How and When Implemented

1

Elevate INT to VP status

Done, June 2008

2

Establish Independent Advisory Board (IAB)

Four-member IAB appointed in September 2008*

3

Establish consulting unit

Done, established November 2007

4

Ensure action plan follows from INT findings

Operational Managing Directors responsible for action plan 

5

Re-evaluate INT’s confidentiality policies

Underway; practice note under preparation; confidentiality protocol agreed in August 2008

6

Disclose progress in ongoing external investigations to staff to enable them to protect integrity of ongoing operations

Ongoing; allegations reviewed jointly between INT and Regional VPs, IFC or MIGA, and appropriate preventive measures agreed upon

7

Disclose draft external investigative reports to operational staff

Being done for all reports completed since September 13, 2007 (i.e., post-Volcker reports) 

8

Disclose redacted external investigative reports to Executive Directors, and to the public if the President—in consultation with relevant Managing Director, Regional VP and INT—so determines

Being done for all final reports completed since September 13, 2007; redacted investigative reports and DIRs made available to public

9

Disclose credible allegations, investigative progress, and redacted reports to donors

Ongoing; requires guidelines to balance competing interests

10

Improve INT relations with Operations Policy and Internal Audit Department

Ongoing; interactive and yielding results

11

Continue to use Detailed Implementation Reviews (DIRs), with staff involvement as appropriate

OPCS, INT working to develop guidelines for handling future DIRs 

12

Make an external member of the Sanctions Board the chair of that Board

Done, new chair appointed January 31, 2009 

13

Complete normal external investigations within 12 months and complex ones within 18 months

INT has designed timeline tracking systems to meet standards and is recruiting staff to achieve required resource-to-case ratio 

14

Transfer investigative responsibility for staff misconduct not involving allegations of significant fraud or corruption out of INT

New Chief Ethics Officer appointed; task force established; cases transferred to Office of Ethics and Business Conduct on July 1, 2009

15

Complete staff misconduct cases involving fraud or corruption within nine months and workplace conflict within six months

Case tracking mechanisms developed and trends being monitored; outcomes pending transfer of responsibilities 

16

Enhance selected staff rights to improve fairness of internal investigations

Annex to Staff Rule 8.01 and Guide to Staff Rule 8.01 Investigative Process published December 2008

17

Improve staff competence and diversity

Ongoing recruitment has improved diversity; technical specialists being recruited globally 

18

Improve INT’s performance measures

New performance metric proposed, July 2008