Annual Report cover 4/5/13 5:57 PM Page 1 Empowered lives. Resilient nations. ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL 2012 United Nations Development Programme S FOR THE THE FUTURE S FOR N LEARNING FROM THE PAST IRECTIO D DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE AST AST P United Nations Development Programme UNDP GLOBAL THEMATIC PROGRAMME ON ANTICORRUPTION Bureau for Development Policy Democratic Governance Group FOR DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS One United Nations Plaza THE FROM G N New York, NY 10017, USA I N Email: [email protected] 2012 ANNUAL REPORT Website: www.undp.org/governance LEAR LEARNING FROM THE PAST – DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE UNDP Global Thematic Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (PACDE) 2012 ANNUAL REPORT Editors: Phil Matsheza and Anga R Timilsina Design and layout: Valeur s.r.o. Cover photo: Panos Pictures Copyright © March 2013 United Nations Development Programme Bureau for Development Policy Democratic Governance Group One United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017, USA Email: [email protected] Website: www.undp.org/governance ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The UNDP Global Thematic Programme on without the remarkable work and effort of our Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness anti-corruption colleagues at regional and (PACDE) expresses its appreciation to the country levels. donors, partners and colleagues for supporting UNDP's work on anti-corruption. We are grateful to the following UNDP anti- corruption practitioners for their contribu- PACDE is particularly grateful for the support re- tions: Arkan El-Seblani (Manager of the UNDP ceived from the Australian Agency for Interna- anti-corruption initiative in the Arab Coun- tional Development (AusAID), the Government of tries); Christianna Pangalos (Dakar RC); Norway, the Government of Finland and the Prin- Francesco Checchi (Bratislava RC); Gerardo cipality of Liechtenstein. Their financial contribu- Berthin (Panama RC); Job Ogonda (Johannes- tion has enabled UNDP to have a more sustainable burg RC) and Samuel De Jaegere (Bangkok anti-corruption programming. RC). We would like to thank the PACDE Board mem- We would also like to thank the following bers including, UNDP Regional Bureaus, Norad UNDP Country Offices for their inputs and case and AusAID, for their inputs to the draft version studies that helped to enrich this annual re- of this annual report. port: Egypt, El Salvador, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Ukraine, Chile, Colombia, Kosovo, the The achievements and results reflected on this Philippines, Morocco, among others. annual report would not have been possible PACDE 2012 Annual Report || 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: REPORT OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION 8 CHAPTER 2: REPORT ON RESULTS 18 Objective 1: Reduce corruption for MDG acceleration 18 Output 1.1: Anti-corruption integrated in the MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF) 18 Output 1.2: Sectoral approach to fight corruption implemented in health, education and water sectors 20 Output 1.3: Multi-stakeholder networks and dialogue on social accountability promoted 24 Output 1.4: Anti-corruption for women's empowerment and gender equality strengthened 29 Output 1.5: The capacity of LDCs to prevent illicit financial flows strengthened 32 Objective 2: Mainstream UNCAC and anti-corruption into national development processes 34 Output 2.1: UNCAC mainstreamed in the UN’s national-level programmes 34 Output 2.2: UNCAC implementation and going beyond the minimum processes supported 38 Output 2.3: Anti-corruption and UNCAC mainstreamed in post conflict and transitition countries 43 Objective 3: Strengthen the capacity of anti-corruption agencies 46 Output 3.1: Technical assistance provided to strengthen the capacity of selected ACAs 46 Objective 4: Mitigating corruption risks in climate change and natural resource management 50 Output 4.1: Corruption risk assessments and other anti-corruption measures integrated in REDD+ mechanisms 50 4 || PACDE 2012 Annual Report TABLE OF CONTENTS Output 4.2: Transparency and accountability integrated in the management of natural resources 52 Objective 5: Strengthening global leadership, anti-corruption advocacy and coordination 55 Output 5.1: Through increased visibility, awareness and representation, UNDP contributed to strengthening anti-corruption for development effectiveness 55 Output 5.2: Anti-corruption regional networks consolidated 62 CHAPTER 3: STRENGTHENING TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND REPORTING IN UNDP 67 Annex 1: Summary of results by output areas 72 Annex 2: Summary of PACDE expenditures in 2012 82 Annex 3: Highlights of milestones and progress on the sectoral country level pilots 83 PACDE 2012 Annual Report || 5 Lebanon ANTICORRUPTION EDUCATION, HEALTH AND WATER SECTORS The project aims to work closely with the relevant parliamentary IN SECTORS committees including, National Education and Higher Education; Public Works, Transportation, Energy and Water; and the Public (Education, Health, Water and Climate Change) Health, Labor and Social Affairs to develop sector-focused expert groups with relevant stakeholders to introduce and implement a path for reform. The project will strengthen the capacity of Lebanese Parliament to address critical reform issues as they relate to sectoral policies. Anti-corruption in REDD+ Bangladesh Developing capacity for corruption risks and social impact assessments in REDD+ Bhutan Developing Options for Kosovo Benefit Distribution and EDUCATION SECTOR Addressing Corruption Risks DRC The objective of this initiative is to provide Technical Support to scholars/students and Corruption Risk Assessment teachers/professors with the in the REDD+ process opportunity to proactively engage in enhancing Kenya corruption control in Kosovo’s education sector Conducting Institutional by making use of the online Context Analysis on REDD+ platform www.kallxo.com. Governance, Transparency Costa Rica and Corruption risks WATER SECTOR Nepal Liberia The project is intended to EDUCATION SECTOR Building approaches to address promote transparency and corruption risks and equitable accountability of the Rural sharing of REDD+ related Administrative Association of The project aims to apply benefits Aqueducts (ASADAS in sectoral approach in Spanish) to improve water governance with emphasis on the education sector and Nigeria management in Costa Rica through active involvement establish key risk factors Integrating anti-corruption and monitoring of water users. with follow-up actions into the pilot Participatory leading to strengthening Governance Assessment institutional frameworks. for REDD+ Philippines Conducting corruption risk Colombia Brazil Guinea assessment and inform the HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR national REDD+ strategy Vietnam The main goal of the project is This pilot project focuses on preventing This project aims to improve to enhance the discussion of corruption in health sector among public people's access to quality Integrating anti-corruption corruption and to bring new servants of Sao Paulo’s State Health health services through into the pilot Participatory ideas to prevent it among Secretariat. The project is implemented media engagement and Governance Assessment public servants. in partnership with the State Secretariat accountability (radio, for REDD+ of Public Health. television, newspapers). Jordan Armenia China EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SECTOR The objective of this project is to enhance monitoring, In partnership with the Republic of UNDP China together with China Centre transparency and accountability measures in service Armenia Ministry of Education and for Comparative Politics and Economics provision in the health sector and reporting on violations Science, UNICEF and civil society, this are mapping out corruption risks in the through a web portal that provides citizens with the project aims to implement a Social higher education sector, proposing opportunity to have their voices heard and contribute Innovation Camp, including a mitigation strategies, piloting risk to monitoring service delivery in the health sector. comprehensive campaign of workshops reduction plans in selected universities to and web-based outreach. prevent corruption in this sector. Kyrgyzstan EDUCATION AND HEALTH SECTORS UNDP supports the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic to identify the corruption risks in the procedures established for the health sector bodies to implement their functions. One of the main goals of the project is to assess corruption risk vulnerabilities in the sectors. Cambodia EDUCATION SECTOR The objective of this project is to get a better understanding on the nature and prevalence of informal fees in Cambodia and Ethiopia to identify appropriate global WATER SECTOR and regional experiences and best practices which can be applicable to the Cambodian This project seeks to contribute to context. government's efforts for improved service delivery to the citizens. Assessment of corruption risks in the water sector is being conducted to gain better insight into transparency and accountability concerns impeding service delivery in the sector, identify interventions and mechanisms to be implemented for zero tolerance for corruption in the sector. Swaziland Uganda HEALTH SECTOR EDUCATION SECTOR Philippines WATER SECTOR This project aims to increase The overall objective of the project is to efficiency and effectiveness of strengthen community participation and maternal and neonatal health oversight for transparent and accountable The objective of this project is to mitigate care service delivery