Democratic Governance in Europe & CIS

Regional Workshop on Programming in Support of Anti-corruption Agencies

Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 30 June - 1 July 2009 - Contries in Eastern Europe and the CIS are facing significant challenges in tackling corruption. After having ratified the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), many of them have established specialized anti-corruption agencies (ACAs), and UNDP is sometimes called upon to help. However, these institutions are not only confronted with the complex issues of corruption, but as part of a country’s public system may suffer from the usual failings of post-communist administrations, such as lack of resources, vague mandates, poor coordination, defficient planning and performance monitoring, politicization, structural inefficiencies, lack of well-trained and qualified staff. With its significant track record both in supporting anti-corruption policies, as well as institutional development, UNDP is uniquely placed to support ACAs with regard to both technical and functional capacities that they need.

The purpose of the workshop was to engage UNDP staff, practitioners and international experts working in the field of anti-corruption in a substantive discussion on how to best support the ACAs. The workshop looked at the models, functions and positioning of ACAs in the region, discussed case studies on activities implemented by UNDP and by other development agencies, and proposed a structured approach to integrate UNDP’s capacity development paradigm in programming in support of ACAs. UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre is currently supporting capacity development of prevention of corruption agencies. A Methodology for Capacity Assessment of ACAs has been developed and tested, and was presented for comments and observations from the participants. The information, experiences, lessons learned, case studies and methodologies presented and discussed during the workshop will be subsequently analyzed and gathered in a Toolkit that will be put at the disposal of practitioners working within and in support of ACAs.

For more information please visit the workshop’s webpage. http://europeandcis.undp.org/governance/parac/show/62E761F5-F203-1EE9-BE6389BE195A2C20

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