Anti-Corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific
Assisting participating countries in identifying reform needs and assessing progress are central objectives of the Anti-Corruption Action Plan for Asia Pacific and constitute an essential tool of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative to strengthen the Asian and Pacific region’s anti-corruption frameworks. Against this background, the Initiative's Steering Group has initiated different types of reviews on the participating countries' legal and institutional frameworks and policies to fight corruption.
Based on self-assessment reports, these reviews aim to assist participating governments better understand the main challenges which their countries face, assess problems encountered in implementing anti-corruption policies, learn from their neighboring countries’ experience, and identify measures to further enhance anti-corruption efforts. The reports also serve as benchmarks to assess achievements under the Action Plan and to identify priorities for reform.
In this context, the endorsing countries have in a first step taken stock of their legal and institutional frameworks to gain an overview of the currently existing anti-corruption instruments. Based on the results from this stocktaking exercise, the Steering Group in 2004 launched a series of in-depth thematic studies, the first of which will cover the countries' systems to curb corruption in public procurement.
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The legal and institutional
frameworks
Review of public procurement systems
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Anti-Corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific:
The Legal and Institutional Frameworks
In the framework of the Action Plan's implementation mechanism, endorsing countries have agreed to periodically report on progress made to respond to the Action Plan's goals and objectives. Against this background, the Steering Group, at its third meeting of March 2003, has agreed to take stock of its member countries' legal and institutional anti-corruption frameworks.
The stocktaking exercise undertaken in this context is based on country self-assessment reports about measures, institutions and legislation that are in place to ensure and enhance transparency in the public sector, to combat bribery and promote transparency in business operations, and to facilitate public involvement in the fight against corruption. This exercise allowed participating governments to better understand the main challenges which their countries face, to assess problems encountered in implementing anti-corruption policies, and to learn from their neighboring countries’ experience. Moreover, this report serves as a benchmark for the Steering Group to assess future progress achieved by its member countries under the Action Plan and to identify areas in which reform efforts are still needed.
The report resulting from this exercise was adopted by the Steering Group at its fifth meeting in July 2004. It has been published in November 2004 and can be downloaded in pdf-format or be ordered in print via the ADB. An update of the report is currently under preparation; it will include information on countries that have joined the Initiative since the adoption of the first report in July 2004 as well as information on reform progress achieved in the Action Plan's endorsing countries since July 2004.
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* This report is under preparation.
** Due to the recent membership of this country in the Initiative, the overview report does not yet contain information contained in this country report. It will be integrated in a future version of the stocktaking report.
The legal and
institutional frameworks
Review of public procurement systems
Review of provisions and practices to
curb corruption in public procurement
Based on the results from the Steering Group’s initial assessment on their member countries’ legal and institutional frameworks to fight corruption (stocktaking exercise), the Steering Group at its fifth meeting in July 2004 initiated a series of thematic studies on policies, practices and rules governing areas that this stocktaking has revealed as being of particular concern throughout the region. The studies aim to assist participating governments in better understanding corruption risks inherent in their countries’ institutional and legal settings and provide them with an analytical framework to design policies and procedures to curb corruption in the respective sectors.
The Steering Group in its deliberations on priorities in this respect identified prevention, detection and prosecution of corruption in public procurement as one of the region’s top priorities and consequently selected this theme for the Initiative’s first thematic study.
In line with the Action Plan’s principle of self-review, the information on which this study will be based is collected by means of a questionnaire specially developed for this purpose.
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* This report is currently under preparation and will be available soon.
The legal and institutional
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Review of public procurement systems