If we can create this Commonwealth standard, and persuade it is the benchmark for suppliers that get international money then we can create a cadre of good practice".
Scotland told the Guardian the proposed Commonwealth standard would identify those bodies, institutions and entities that are adhering to best practice, including transparency, in a bid to avoid corruption.
It would mean that when monies are given out for instance by the UN, the Council of Europe or the Department for International Development, they would look to see if the entity has been given the Commonwealth standard indicating you have good systems in place, including meeting the standards of the Bribery Act.
The cost to taxpayers of running Australia's offshore detention centres was higher than necessary because the Department of Border Protection and Immigration failed to comply with the commonwealth procurement standards, a report by the Australian National Audit Office has found.
Last week an excoriating report from the Australian National Audit Office said the Department of Immigration and Border Protection had wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on offshore detention because it failed to comply with commonwealth procurement standards.
For many years his gravestone was in a poor state of repair, but successful attempts have been made by memorial organisations to replace it with a standard white Commonwealth War Grave headstone.
Commonwealth heptathlon champion Louise Hazel says the qualification standards outlined by England Athletics for Glasgow 2014 are "too elitist".
Blaine Ferrell, a representative from the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, a science advocacy group that endorses the standards, said "Students in the commonwealth both need and deserve 21st-century science education grounded in inquiry, rich in content and internationally benchmarked".
"But the standards in the European and the Commonwealths has grown in the last couple of seasons - the world champion [Jehue Gordon] is from the Commonwealth and the world bronze medallist [Emir Bekric] is a European, so the standard could be higher than before.
Agencies operating in the Commonwealth countries may need to prove they are meeting anti-corruption standards to get access to aid and loans, under proposals drawn up by Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth secretary general.
