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training course regulations, assistants are designated as “specialists” so they are ineligible to participate in

training courses for personnel in other positions, such as inspectors general who are designated as
“executives”.

Processes

The processes of the integrated inspection system include planning, inspecting, reporting, and

following up. These processes encounter many problems. For instance, the inspection planning process
does not have input from a systematic databases. The inspection planning process is not designed to

involve citizen participation in formulating issues for inspection. Thus, inspection may yield less benefits

to the executive branch of government. Also, it is less able to ensure that local and area problems and
needs are reflected in public policy. .

In terms of the inspection process, information prepared about the inspected area is not analyzed
to show the project outcome explicitly and concretely. The presented information may be incorrect or

incomplete. Coordination between ministry and department to inform schedule and information to inspect

is quite delayed, which prevents some ministry and department inspectors general from being involved in
the integrated inspection process.

In the processes of reporting and following up, inspection reports are not used by the executive
branch. Currently, inspection reports do not have direct input or comment from relavant inspecting

agencies appropriately. For following up the report, the current practice is for the inspection bureau to

form a monitoring and evaluation committee and send a letter to the inspected agency requesting some
sort of action or change in practice, and for the inspected agency to respond with a letter of its own, but

there is no genuine subsequent evaluation of whether recommendations are actually implemented.

Support

Regarding problems with information technology and support systems, the results showed that the
inspection system still lacks an inspection database to facilitate data retrieval for planning and inspection

processes. Researchers also found that the inspection staff is small compared to the workload for which it

is responsible.

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