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GOPAC Session at the 18Th International Anti-Corruption Conference (Copenhagen, 24 October 2018) October 16, 2018 GOPAC Session at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference (Copenhagen, 24 October 2018) “Parliamentarians Acting Now in Partnerships” The Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) represents parliamentarians from around the world who are committed to tackling corruption. While the corrupt are adapting new technologies and strategies to strengthen their gains, parliamentarians are committing to smarter partnerships across their communities to circumvent corrupt practices. In this session, GOPAC’s regional and national chapters share some of the creative partnerships that are making an impact in preventing and interrupting corruption. GOPAC aims to highlight the importance of parliamentarians engaging with their constituents and working collaboratively with civil society to raise awareness of corruption and good governance issues and lobby for legislative and administrative changes at combatting corruption. It focuses on the representational role of parliamentarians in ensuring that the voice of the people is heard by government and reflected in appropriate anti-corruption legislation. Schedule Date : Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Time : 12:00pm – 2:00pm Venue : Bella Center Copenhagen, Denmark Speakers - Dr. Fadli Zon Chair of GOPAC, and the Vice Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives - Hon. Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed Chair of GOPAC Kenya, and MP Kenya National Assembly - Margaret Quirk MLA Chair of GOPAC Australia, and MP Western Australia Legislative Assembly - Hon. Taefu Lemi MP Chair of GOPAC Samoa, and Associate Minister for Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa - Ms. Deffnie Thompson Media officer of the Vanuatu National Youth Council, and a Pacific youth civil society activist on integrity and anti-corruption issues - Dr. Carlos Alberto Pérez Cuevas Chair of GOPAC Mexico, and MP Mexican Congress - Yanuar Nugroho, Ph.D Member of the OGP Trust Fund Council, and Open Government Partnership National Focal Point for Indonesia - Michael Aastrup Jensen Member of Denmark’s Parliament and Liberal Party spokesperson for development policy; member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. 1 October 16, 2018 Moderators - Ms Mihaela Stojkoska, UNDP - John Hyde, GOPAC Secretary, and Secretary of GOPAC Oceania Presentations Committed to SDG16’s justice for all, strong institutions and anti-corruption targets, the Indonesian House of Representatives is working collaboratively with GOPAC to mainstream the SDGs into their parliamentary commissions/committees works. It then established an SDGs Task Force as the focal point of SDGs. In addition to that, the Indonesian House of Representatives, in partnership with civil society, declared an Open Parliament as a commitment towards SDG framework and the Open Government Partnership. It shed a light to parliament on how the openness in parliament can help to strengthen transparency in the oversight of budget allocations, the public sector and stakeholders in implementing the SDGs. GOPAC Kenya is committed to Leaving No-one Behind with a focus on ensuring the nation’s anti- corruption framework is inclusive. GOPAC Kenya MPs are working to ensure the Witness Protection Act can assist whistle-blowers to help Government institutions and Agencies to unearth and deter corruption in key areas such as police taking bribes and tax evasion. GOPAC Mexico - civil society organizations that fight against corruption join with Mexico and national legislators in Caso México. The session will also discuss about GOPAC Mexico and its strategic alliance with the Anti-Corruption Caucus of organized civil society and legislators. GOPAC Oceania and the United Nations Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption (UN-PRAC) project support Samoa’s parliamentarians in ensuring anti-corruption advocacy and integrity training is available to all Samoans. Parliamentarians and media advocated strongly for Samoa embracing the UNCAC and for Solomon Islands’ parliament to adopt a comprehensive anti-corruption bill. UN-PRAC’s work with youth, CSOs and media in the Pacific aims to be a key driver in changing the community’s acceptance of corrupt behaviors. This presentation features perspectives from a Samoan parliamentarian and a Vanuatu journalist / youth advocate. GOPAC Australia’s parliamentarians are active in integrity issues surrounding the current Royal Commission into Banking, along with money-laundering and partnerships within the Open Government Partnerships action plan. As a multilateral and multi-stakeholders initiative, the Open Government Partnership brings government and civil society to create and galvanize actions to make governments more inclusive, responsive and accountable. With the growing regime of openness, numerous actions have been made to advocate parliament, a representative and democratic institution within a country to be more open, accessible, transparent and accountable. In 2013, OGP has established Legislative Openness Working Group to promote peer learning and technical support to implement and develop parliamentary actions on openness. Since then, there are few parliaments have been joined to this commitment and declare their parliamentary openness action plan. In addition to support greater efforts in the development of openness regime, the OGP also established a Multi-Donor Trust Fund, a dedicated funding mechanism to support participating countries’ and local entities’ fulfillment of OGP 2 October 16, 2018 Commitments. It is expected that the presentation can elaborate further the mission of OGP in promoting and developing openness regime and to explore further partnership between the OGP and GOPAC in broadening openness stakeholders in the parliament. Biographies 1) Speaker 1 Dr. Fadli Zon is the Chair of GOPAC, and the Vice Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives. He joined the GOPAC Board of Directors in 2015. He is a member of parliament in Indonesia and was elected Deputy Speaker of Indonesia Parliament in 2014 and Vice- Chairman of Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya (GERINDRA) in 2008. Dr Zon was a member of the People Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (1997-1999), Chairman of Badan Komunikasi Partai Gerindra (2010-present), lecturer at the University of Indonesia and chairman of Ikatan Alumni Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya UI (ILUNI FIB UI). Dr Zon has authored several books including Gerakan Etnonasionalis: Bubarnya Imperium Uni Soviet (Sinar Harapan, 2002); The IMF Game: The Role of the IMF in Bringing down the Soeharto Regime (IPS, 2004); and The Politics of May Riot 1998 (Solstice, 2004). He completed his university education at the Russian Study Program in the Faculty of Cultural Knowledge at the University of Indonesia and earned a Master of Science degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. 2) Speaker 2 Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed is a Kenyan politician. He chairs the GOPAC Kenya grouping of anti- corruption parliamentarians. He was first elected to represent the Kisumu Town East Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007 and reelected again in 2017. He went to the Nairobi School and graduated in 1971. He then went to Makerere University in Uganda, but left after only one year's studies to join Middlesex Polytechnic in London, where he received a Diploma in Accountancy and later bachelor's degree in Business studies and he received the Masters of Business Administration from the Henley Management College and later on did the Masters in political science at Maseno University. Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed has been the chairman of New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital for eleven years and been in health management for the last thirty years. 3) Speaker 3 Margaret Quirk was first elected to the West Australia Parliament in 2001. She is currently the Chair, Joint Standing Committee Corruption and Crime Commission since June 2017 and Chair of GOPAC Australia. From 2005 to 2008 she served as a Minister, including Minister for Disability Services; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests; Seniors and Volunteering; Minister assisting the Minister for Federal Affairs, Minister for Corrective Services; and Women's Interests; Small Business; Minister Assisting the Minister for Federal-State Relations. Ms Quirk was admitted Barrister & Solicitor, 1981; Prosecutor, South Australia & ACT; Lawyer, Immigration Department, Canberra, Regional Counsel, National Crime Authority. 4) Speaker 4 Hon. Taefu Lemi MP is Chair of GOPAC Samoa and Associate Minister for Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa Taefu Lemi is a graduate Accountant from La Trobe University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economic/Accounting in 1991. He was the 3 October 16, 2018 Campus Manager for the University of the South Pacific Alafua Campus prior to becoming a Member of Parliament in the 2011 General Election. This is his second term in Parliament. Other positions held before Parliament were: Business Manager The University of the South Pacific (Alafua Campus); Corporate Services Director The National University of Samoa; Accountant Samoa Polytechnic; Graduate Accountant Price Waterhouse; Tax Inspector Inland Revenue Department. Taefu also graduated with a Diploma in Theology from Malua Theological College in 2013, a programme he undertook whilst a Member of Parliament. He is a Lay Preacher in his Church. In Parliament during the 2011-2016 Term; Taefu was the Associate Minister of Justice. He was a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee.
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