Anti-Corruption Efforts
in Latin America: Lessons Learned
Experts from around the world met in Washington, D.C. to share “lessons learned” from anti-corruption
efforts in Latin America. The day-long seminar, which took place July
10, 2007 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), featured
a presentation on the results from the First Round of the Mechanism for
Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against
Corruption (known as MESICIC for its acronym in Spanish).
Read more
here.
Implementing MESICIC Recommendations through
National Plans of Action
Six countries have embarked on a technical
cooperation project with the General Secretariat
of the OAS to create National Plans of Action to
implement recommendations made by the MESICIC
Committee of Experts. Each Plan of Action will
include the following elements:
- Specific actions necessary to implement the
recommendations of the MESICIC Committee of
Experts
- Institution or entity responsible for
implementation
- Estimated costs and resources needed
- Time frame for execution
- Indicators that measure the expected results
and means of verification.
Once the Plan of Action is drafted each country
will hold a national workshop to discuss and
improve the Plan. Representatives from civil
society, government agencies, the judiciary,
legislature, private sector, and international
funding agencies will participate. Belize,
Ecuador, Honduras, Peru, Suriname and Uruguay
are the six countries which recently signed
Memorandums of Understanding with the OAS
General Secretariat to begin work on the
project. Read more
here.
New Standard Format required for
MESICIC National Progress Reports
Starting in 2008 the States Parties to the MESICIC will be required to use a new
standard format for submitting the yearly progress
reports, as referenced in Articles 31 and 32 of the
Rules
of Procedure. The MESICIC Committee of Experts adopted the standard format during its Eleventh Meeting
held on June 29, 2007 at OAS headquarters.
MESICIC Update
From August 18 to September 13, 2007 the MESICIC
Technical Secretariat will be translating the
six draft preliminary reports corresponding to
the third group of states to be reviewed during
the Twelfth Meeting of the Committee of
Experts. At the end of this period the
Secretariat will send the translated drafts to
the members of the preliminary review
subgroups. For the full schedule of MESICIC
activities click
here.
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Anti-Corruption Newsletter
Edition N° 9 - August 2007
What is the MESICIC?
- The Follow-up Mechanism for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against
Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to support the development
of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption through cooperation between
states parties.
Read more here…
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