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Project Title

Compendium of Anti-Corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies

Project Year

2024

Project Number

ACTWG_101_2024A

Project Session

Session 1

Project Type

Standard

Project Status

Completed Project
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Project No.

ACTWG_101_2024A

Project Title

*
Compendium of Anti-Corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies

Project Status

Completed Project

Fund Account

*
APEC Support Fund

Sub-fund

ASF: General Fund

Project Year

2024

Project Session

*
Session 1

APEC Funding

140,377

Co-funding Amount

11,400

Total Project Value

151,777

Sponsoring Forum

*
Anti-Corruption and Transparency Experts Working Group (ACTWG)

Topics

Anti-Corruption

Committee

SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)

Other Fora Involved

Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved

 

Proposing Economy(ies)

Chile

Co-Sponsoring Economies

Papua New Guinea; Peru; United States

Expected Start Date

01/11/2024

Expected Completion Date

31/12/2025

Project Proponent Name 1

Claudia Ortega

Job Title 1

Not Applicable

Organization 1

Public Prosecutor´s Office

Telephone 1

+56229659564

Email 1

cortega@minpublico.cl; cortegaf@yahoo.com

Project Proponent Name 2

Camila Guerrero

Job Title 2

Under Director, Anticorruption Unit

Organization 2

Public Prosecutor´s Office

Telephone 2

Not Applicable

Email 2

cguerrerom@minpublico.cl

Declaration

Claudia Ortega

Project Summary

In 2007, under Australia’s leadership, the APEC Conduct Principles for Public Officials and Complementary Anti-Corruption Principles for the Public and Private Sectors were adopted. After 16 years, many economies have adopted criminal or administrative liability of legal persons, and anticorruption compliance has expanded through the world. Following up to the Australian initiative, the project seeks to compile the work done in each APEC economy regarding prevention and public integrity within the anti- corruption agencies, prosecution offices and anticorruption law enforcement organisms, in order to share the best practices of public compliance and serve as a reference for APEC economies in this area. Thus, enhancing governments efforts on combating corruption and addressing the deficiencies in rule enforcements which is a critical measure facilitate the transition towards a formal economy, trade and investment for inclusive and interconnected growth in Asia Pacific.

Relevance

Region
The anti-corruption law enforcement authorities and agencies are not exempt from acts of internal corruption, and therefore, they must develop mechanisms that allow them to detect and prosecute the acts of corruption of their own officials, prosecutors and investigators. Since 2007, after the APEC Conduct Principles for Public Officials and Complementary Anticorruption Principles for the Public and Private Sectors were released, this topic has not been approached. The development of compliance in the private sector has been widespread throughout these years, so the public sector must have their own compliance systems and programs. The project seeks to compile all the APEC Economies’ work in this area, to develop a "Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies”, that can serve as a reference for all economies in this area.

Eligibility and Fund Priorities

This project is seeking funding from the ASF General Fund, that has set the following priorities for funding in 2024 in promoting the development of knowledge-based economies:

This project aims to keep ACT-NET authorities connected, in order to have common reference for public integrity, in particular for law enforcement agencies within their own officials, allowing a more effective fight against corruption, and transparent and corruption-free economic relations among APEC economies, enabling sustainable growth, providing capacity building to governmental officials in compliance and integrity standards in the public sector to improve their policies and regulations or their institutional structures or processes.

At the end of the project, economies will be able to identify internal law enforcement risks of corruption, in order to address adequate actions to avoid those risks and/or punish offenders.

Capacity Building
This project meets the APEC’s objectives for capacity building, since it aims to integrate information from all APEC economies for them to design a "Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies ", that will serve as a reference for public integrity in the whole region, helping members to improve the economic and social well-being of the people, by effectively tackling corruption and money laundering predicated on corruption offences.

Objectives

This project aims to provide the APEC economies with updated reference to develop anti-corruption and integrity public compliance programs after the APEC Conduct Principles for Public Officials and Complementary Anti-corruption Principles for the Public and Private Sectors were released in 2007.

At the end of the project, after sharing good practices amongst APEC economies, a "Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies” will be delivered to serve as reference for each APEC economy in the development of their internal public compliance programs, to detect, investigate and prosecute violations of internal integrity that constitute crimes committed by prosecutors and officials of the Prosecutor's Offices and public anticorruption bodies, including law enforcement.

Alignment

APEC

This project is consistent with the Bangkok Leader’s declaration, in which they reaffirm their determination to deliver a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, inclusive and predictable trade and investment environment, with the will to continue to work to ensure a level playing field to foster a favorable trade and investment environment and reaffirm their commitment to keep markets open and to address supply chain disruptions. They also recognize the detrimental impact of corruption on economic growth and development and are committed to taking practical actions and a united approach, to jointly fight cross-border corruption and deny safe heaven to corruption offenders and their illicit assets.

It also is in accordance with the Aotearoa Plan of Action that calls to enhance cooperation to foster secure growth, including by implementing the APEC Beijing Declaration on Fighting Corruption, Santiago Commitment to Fight Corruption and Ensure Transparency, and the APEC Consolidated Counter-Terrorism and Secure Trade Strategy.

Developing a "Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies” ensures transparency and allows member economies to lead by example from the public to the private sector, for their business conduct in trading within the APEC economies, aligned with the 1st priority of Peru as host economy in 2024: “Trade and investment for inclusive and interconnected growth”.

The "Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies” will allow all the APEC economies to share their best practices and serve as a reference for each APEC economy in the development of their internal public compliance programs.

Forum

The project fully aligns with the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Experts’ Working Group (ACTWG), Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026, in its strategic vision, in which ACTWG members envisage a more inclusive APEC community that shares a commitment to preventing and combating corruption, with transparency and accountability, so that our economies can reach their full potential; and where corruption’s detrimental impact on economies is eradicated to the greatest extent; and where all member economies are well-prepared for all current and emerging anti-corruption challenges, and cooperate to foster secure growth in the APEC region with strong anti-corruption laws and systems. Also, within the continuing priorities, the Strategic Plan includes giving full play to the role of ACT-NET and corresponds to the 2024 thematic area of the Framework for APEC Anti-Corruption Thematic Areas 2023-2026, Prevention and Transparency (2024): Strengthen measures to effectively prevent corruption and ensure transparency, particularly in public sector integrity.

Regarding the 2024 work plan, it states that the ACTWG will support efforts to prevent corruption and develop activities that allow member economies to share best practices and experiences in strengthening integrity in the public sector (public compliance).

Beneficiaries and Outputs

Outputs

1) Survey
An online survey will be developed and applied to anticorruption and law enforcement agencies from the 21 APEC economies, including prosecutor`s offices, attorney general's Office, Police, agencies and commissions against corruption, or any other organization that is in charge of combating corruption. It will ask about anticorruption compliance models or programs in the public sector, especially in the referred agencies, that are in charge of applying the anticorruption law. Interviews will be considered, only if it appears necessary to clarify specific information. The collected data will be analyzed and shared at the workshop providing the outline of the topics of the agenda to be discussed by participants and experts and will serve as a resource for the compendium.

2) Workshop

At the end of June 2025, a 2-full day Workshop will be held in Chile, in Santiago city. The agenda will consider:

Day 1:

-  Introduction to the project and the topics of the agenda, including results from the survey.

-  Presentations by international experts about existing compliance programs in public sector and about tools to design and build those programs.

-  Presentation by participants about their experiences designing, building and/or implementing compliance programs at the public sector Law enforcement)

Day 2:

-  Continue presentation by participants about their experiences designing, building and/or implementing compliance programs at the public sector Law enforcement)

-  Break-up sessions for group discussion

-  Plenary session

-  Wrap up session and recommendations 

Presentations from international experts and participants will focus on designing, building or implementing compliance programs, integrity models or similar, at anticorruption and law enforcement agencies.

A mandatory post-event evaluation will be conducted at the end of the workshop to assess knowledge/information gained from the workshop and evaluate the workshop's organization.

Also a 5-pages workshop summary will be prepared after the workshop, including the topics of the agenda, the topics addressed by experts and participants, together with the conclusions, best practices and recommendations to be considered in the compendium.

3) Compendium of Anti-Corruption prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law

The main output of the project will be the Compendium of Anticorruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies", a that will consider, at least, 50 substance pages (excluding annexes), covering the following topics:

-  Introduction and description of the project

-  Analysis of the collected data from the survey

- Results and recommendations from the workshop, about existing anticorruption compliance programs at anticorruption law enforcement agencies, identifying best practices and recomendations on minimum standards to design, build and implement effective anticorruption compliance programs at anticorruption and law enforcement agencies.

-  Conclusions

-  Annexes that at least will include the full results from the survey. 

The document is targeted to be accessed by the general public, in particular policy makers and anticorruption and law enforcement agencies, as an APEC digital publication.

Outcomes
1) Potential development of anticorruption compliance programs at anticorruption and law enforcement agencies, in APEC economies, guided by the contents of the Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies. The outcome will be measured through conducting a post-event evaluation.

2) Enhanced Knowledge and capacity on ways to combat corruption and address deficiencies in rule enforcement

3) Increased potential connections and collaboration among APEC economies

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries of the project will be public officers, in particular law enforcement officials involved in developing internal compliance policies within their agencies. The participants of the workshop will include the representatives from law enforcement agencies from individual member economies. Since all of them get benefits from capacity building, great engagement is expected.

Experts from APEC law enforcement agencies and international organizations related to anticorruption and compliance, will be invited.

Secondary beneficiaries will be the whole APEC society, since the prevention of corruption crimes within the law enforcement provides a more transparent environment with most trust in the public sector and promoting a better economy.

Dissemination

The final output, Compendium of Anti-Corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies, will be published at the APEC website, as an APEC publication, pending ACTWG agreement.

The target audience will be primarily, policy makers and anticorruption and law enforcement authorities. Economies will be encouraged to publish and/or disseminate the compendium within their public agencies.

Gender

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Work Plan

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Risks

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Please see Project Proposal in Supporting Documents folder.

Linkages

The project focuses in obtaining information from APEC economies regarding their public compliance programs or models, in case they have, and to build/design a "Compendium of Anti-corruption Prevention Systems for Public Sector and Law Enforcement Agencies". In 2007, a similar initiative was developed under Australia’s leadership, and APEC Conduct Principles for Public Officials and Complementary Anticorruption Principles for the Public and Private Sectors were released. This project aims to move one step forward from that, after 16 years, engaging all APEC economies, through multi-sectorial agencies dealing with integrity duties will be engaged in the project, as beneficiaries.

It is also expected to have the contribution of international and regional organizations dealing with anticorruption and compliance, such as the UNODC, OECD, FATF, UNDP, OAS, World Bank. G20 and G7 and others, to avoid duplication of previous efforts.

Since the project is focused on anticorruption law enforcement integrity and compliance, it is not likely that there will be involvement of other APEC sub fora, however, there might be interaction with some of them while collecting data about the information that the agencies that participate on those fora can provide to fulfill the project’s objectives.

Sustainability

After the publication of the compendium, APEC economies will be able to use it as a guide to build or adopt public compliance programs.

Together with the information provided by the post-event survey by participants, we propose to conduct a new survey, 2 years after the end of the project, on a self- funded-basis, to be applied to the APEC economies, to know if some of them have adopted anticorruption compliance programs at their anticorruption and law enforcement agencies, based on the recommendations and contents of the compendium.

This topic should be addressed in future activities, under the "Prevention" topic, included in the ACTWG strategic plan.

Direct Labour

Not Applicable.

Are there any supporting document attached?

Yes
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