Programme summary

Among the objectives of the Programme is the provision of anti-corruption tools to raise the probability of detection and the cost of participation in corrupt activities, thereby increasing the risk of involvement.

The Programme is composed of three main components: action learning, technical cooperation, and evaluation. It will take place at the international, national and subnational (or municipal) levels.

Programme organization

All Programme activities will be managed by CICP with the help of an International Steering Committee. This Committee will meet regularly, ensuring the proper involvement of Member States participating in the Programme, either as donors or as clients, and coordinating with the various other international and bilateral organizations. It will create a discussion forum to share experiences from the pilot projects.

Programme execution

This Programme will be implemented emphasizing the principles of: (a) local ownership, (b) donor coordination, (c) integrated approach, (d) focus on impact, and (e) independent evaluation.

Implementation strategy

In order to improve its technical cooperation activities and tools over time, a systematic action learning process will be used to identity best practices.

Country projects.

Testing new approaches and anticorruption tools, the Programme will work initially with 13 countries from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Each country has requested help from CICP and has agreed to include all stakeholder groups in the assessment of corruption and the design and monitoring of an integrated and realistic anti-corruption implementation programme.

A Country Assessment will be performed regularly to document trends of corruption in:

• public administration and "street-level" (citizen interface with public administration agencies);

• private sector (especially medium-sized businesses); and

• high-level finance and politics.

The main results will be stored in a database on the web sites of UNICRI and CICP. The Country Assessment will be disseminated through:

• regular meetings with member countries;

• United Nations periodicals and web sites;

• the respective web sites of the member countries linked to the web sites of CICP and UNICRI.

Through this process the most successful tools will be identified and refined into an Anti-Corruption Tool-kit available on the CICP web site and/or through technical cooperation projects.

Technical cooperation

Because corruption is dynamic and has cross-cutting dimensions and impact, the most appropriate approach must also be dynamic, integrated and holistic. Emphasis should be equally weighted among preventive and enforcement measures. CICP's main focus will be to strengthen judicial and law enforcement systems in member countries.

Technical cooperation will reflect a modular approach of comprehensive anti-corruption measures, or tools, that may be implemented in different stages. This will maximize the flexibility of the adoption of such measures to fit the needs and context of each country/sub-region. Each tool will be tested and refined by the action learning process.

Within the Global Programme, technical cooperation will be provided mainly:

At the international level by:

Promoting international transparency and accountability through:

• The establishment of a monitoring mechanism and panel of national and international experts;

• Enforcement of adequate international legal instruments; and

• The adoption of coherent strategies to fight corruption by the international community through shared information.

At the national level by:

• Assessing existing national institutions, strategies and measures against corruption;

• Providing advice on drafting/revising relevant legislation and strengthening rule of law;

• Providing advice on establishing and strengthening anti-corruption bodies;

• Developing preventive measures; and

• Providing training on newly introduced anti-corruptionmeasures to all stakeholder groups.

• Assess existing sub-national institutions and measures against corruption;

• Provide technical assistance in implementing relevant regulatory and procedural measures; and

• Facilitate adoption and implementation of national initiatives and preventive measures at the local level.

Evaluation