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Global Centre for Public Service Excellence, Singapore: New home of UNDP’s Global Anti-Corruption Initiative
We are glad to inform you that UNDP’s Global Anti-corruption Initiative (GAIN) is now based in Singapore (effective from March 2015), housed under the Global Centre for Public Service Excellence
(GCPSE). From Singapore, GAIN will continue working with all programme
partners and coordinating UNDP’s anti-corruption work with UNDP regional
hubs (Bangkok, Istanbul, Amman, Addis Ababa, and Panama) to provide
policy and programme support to UNDP Country Offices and programming
countries.
The move of GAIN from New York to
Singapore is part of UNDP’s restructuring, which aims at decentralizing
the programme support function from the HQ and bringing UNDP’s advisory
support closer to the programming countries. While GAIN’s mandates
remain the same, the move from NY to Singapore provides an opportunity
for GAIN to align its work more closely with the work of GCPSE on public
service policies, strategies and institutional innovation, which are
critical aspects of prevention of corruption. For more information on
the move of GAIN, please contact gain@undp.org.
Sincerely,
Anga Timilsina, Programme Manager, GAIN
2015 Seoul Debates: Lessons from Korea and around the world
By Anne Marie Sloth Carlsen, Director, UNDP Seoul Policy Center
The 2015 Seoul Debates, held
from 29 to 30 January 2015 in Seoul, Republic of Korea, with some 80
participants from Korea and countries around the world, provided a forum
to identify innovative practices and consolidate lessons learned in
tackling corruption.
The
event is part of UNDP Seoul Policy Centre's Development Solutions
Partnership (DSP) on anti-corruption. DSPs are a new approach for USPC
as a knowledge broker to connect Korean partners with the wider UNDP
network and enhance the overall Korea-UNDP partnership on strategic
development issues.
By Karine Badr, Regional Project Analyst, Anti-Corruption and Integrity in Arab Countries, UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States
Students of Birzeit University Palestine organize a flash mob to support 2014 International Anti-Corruption Day. (Photo by Ahmad Shurafa.)
The
United Nations Development Programme's Anti-Corruption and Integrity in
Arab Countries (ACIAC) has completed its first phase (2011-2014).
During this period it produced specialized knowledge and supported
inclusive policy dialogues towards the implementation of the United
Nations Convention against Corruption in the Arab region.
ACIAC
engaged more than 1,000 stakeholders from governments, businesses, and
civil society organizations across the region with a focus on Djibouti,
Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Yemen.
Read the full story.
By Liviana Zorzi, Event Coordinator on Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption (UNV), UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub
UNDP
has presented the results of an assessment it conducted on risks in
Thailand's public procurement system. The assessment was done in
response to a request from the Office of the Public Sector Development
Commission. On hand to discuss the results was a panel of experts from
the government, the private business sector, the non-profit sector, and
UNDP.
Some
200 participants from public agencies, private companies, CSOs, and the
news media attended the presentation of the findings. As a result of
the assessment UNDP recommended a 20-point action plan to strengthen
integrity in public procurement as well as the development of integrity
red flags and risk mitigation measures.
Read the full story.
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Resources
Preventing illicit financial flows for financing development in Asia-Pacific.
This regional study analyses both illicit inflows and outflows due to
trade misinvoicing for Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Nepal from
2002-2011. It looks at the problem and related solutions not only in the
Least Developed Countries, but also in the Middle-Income Countries,
which are the major drivers of illicit financial flows in the region.
Reconstructing Accountability after Major Disasters. This
Asian Development Bank paper suggests a new way of viewing the problem
of weak or damaged accountability mechanisms in disaster response
efforts, and presents new ideas on how to approach development of
accountability in each unique crisis situation.
Corruption risks in the criminal justice chain and tools for assessment. This
issue paper by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre provides an
overview of where corruption is most likely to arise in the
investigation, prosecution, trial, and incarceration stages of the
criminal justice process.
6th Senior Executive Certificate in Institutional Integrity Management - Hong Kong. The
Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continuing Education
will offer the “6th Senior Executive Certificate in Institutional
Integrity Management” programme from 14-24 April 2015 in Hong Kong. The
9-day course trains and prepares professional Institutional Integrity
Officers.
Workshop on Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods on Corruption & their Application. The
Basel Institute on Governance will hold a "Workshop on Quantitative and
Qualitative Research Methods on Corruption and their Application" on
20-22 April 2015 in Basel, Switzerland.
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