International Anti-Corruption Conference "Preventing. Fighting. Acting", Kyiv, 16 November 2015

1. Development of anticorruption
strategies, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation
Alvils Strīķeris 2015

2. Western countries vs.
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
countries
In this century anti-corruption strategies and
action plans have become common in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia, as well as in other
regions in the world where corruption is
considered widespread and present at all
levels of society and politics. Anti-corruption
programmes are less frequent in Western
Europe or Northern American countries,
where corruption is relatively less of a
common problem and existing institutions
cope with it in most cases.
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3. UNCAC (Unataed Nations Convention against
Corruption) Art. 5: “Each State Party shall, in
accordance with the fundamental principles of
its legal system, develop and implement or
maintain effective, coordinated anti-
corruption policies that promote the
participation of society and reflect the
principles of the rule of law, proper
management of public affairs and public
property, integrity, transparency and
accountability”
OECD
GRECO
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4. Anti-corruption strategies
Strategy
Action plan
Program
Concept
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5. Anti-corruption strategies
Political
Technical
«The challenge for the public officials
responsible for the development and
implementation of the strategies and action
plans is to strike the right balance between
the political and technocratic approaches.»
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6. Prevention and combating
Prevention:
Integrity
Public service and Judiciary
Public procurement
Transparency
Access to information
Whistleblower regulation and protection
Lobbying
Political corruption
Control of finances of political parties
Control of pre-election Campaign
Education
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7. Prevention and combating
Investigation focus of violations related to corruption:
Exceeding a public official’s authority;
Using official position in bad faith;
Public official’s failure to act, i.e. a public official fails to
perform his or her assigned duties, intentionally or
through negligence and thus causes harm to a state
authority, its rights and interests;
Accepting and giving bribes, including misappropriation
of a bribe and intermediation in a bribery;
Violating restrictions imposed on a public official
repeatedly or if substantial harm is caused to the state
interests;
Unlawful participation in property transactions by a public
official;
Trading in influence, i.e. giving/accepting material value,
property or other kind of benefits to/by a public official to
personally influence the activities or decisions of a public
official;
Intermediation in financing of political parties.
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8. Latvia’s newest anti-
corruption program 2015-
2020
5 sub-objectives
15 courses of action
112 tasks
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9. Sub-objective: Ensure public
administration’s policy of human
resource management that excludes
motivation for corruptive activities
Direction of activities: Review of the scope of
persons subject to the preventive anti-
corruption measures
Direction of activities: Improvement of the
public administration’s human resource
management, thus promoting ethical
principles and reducing the risks of corruption
and conflicts of interest
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10. Sub-objective: Create and improve
an independent internal control
system to limit cases of corruption or
defrauding of financial resources,
including the EU and other foreign
financial resources, in the public,
municipal or private sector
Direction of activities: Improvement, maintenance
and supervision of the internal control system in the
public and municipal institutions or capital companies
Direction of activities: Provision of the legality of use
of public property and funds, including the EU funds
and other foreign financial assistance instruments
Direction of activities: Strengthening of good faith
and prevention of corruption risks among officials
related to the judicial power
Direction of activities: Implementation of anti-
corruption measures in the private sector
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11. Sub-objective: Reduce the public
tolerance towards corruption
Direction of activities: Involvment of persons
and groups that do no represent the public
sector into the corruption prevention, and
promotion of public intolerance against the
corruption and the consequences therof
Direction of activities: Improvement of the
system of whistleblower protection and
provision of information to the society in
cases of violation of the law
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12. Sub-objective: Ensure inevitability of
penalties for offences related to the
abuse of official power and for
unlawful use of the power
Direction of activities: Setting of effective,
proportionate and dissuasive administrative or
criminal penalties for offences committed.
Direction of activities: Prevention and combating of
bribery of officials related to foreign and international
organisations
Direction of activities: Determination of responsibility
for the squandering or misappropriation of property,
and for other unlawful activities carried out by public
officials in relation to the property
Direction of activities: Prevention of the laundering of
proceeds of crime and promotion of possibilities to
recover the proceeds of crime
Direction of activities: Effective operation of the
preventive anti-corruption organisations and
provision of their independence
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13. Sub-objective: Limit the power of
money in the politics
Direction of activities: Ensuring of the
transparency of financing of political
organisations and reduction of the role of
money in the politics
Direction of activities: Promoting social
involvment in the policy creation process
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14. Monitoring and evaluation
Delegating responsibility
Government
Responsible institutions
NGO’s
Society
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15. Control mechanisms
Interior
Exterior
Reports
Credibility and trustfulness
Statistics
Voice of media
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16. Anti-corruption should involve efforts of many
agencies, which makes the coordination and
enforcement of implementation a real
challenge.
-mobilise political support
-strengthen demand from society
-design effective implementation
measures
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