UNDP's regionalproject on "Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries"(...
UNDP's regionalproject on "Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries"(ACIAC) aims at strengthening cooperation and promoting collective actionagainst corruption in Arab countries while adding value to other relatedbilateral and multilateral efforts. It seeks to generate specialized knowledgeto inform decision-making and to transfer critical skills to policymakers,civil society leaders, key business representatives, and governmental andnon-governmental practitioners in Arab countries. The project supports actionacross the region with a particular focus on supporting project signatory countries,which so far include Djibouti, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia, andYemen. Support is provided with a view to contributing to the achievement offour main objectives (i) improve the ability of governmental andnon-governmental practitioners to design and use anti-corruption assessments;(ii) support the implementation of the United Nations Convention againstCorruption (UNCAC) provisions in accordance with each country’s needs andpriorities; (iii) promote integrity in sectors that deliver basic publicservices; and (iv) foster dialogue with stakeholders on how to addresscorruption in countries that are experiencing transformation. Results achievedunder these four inter-connected objectives will strengthen the Arab countries’ability to design, implement, and monitor anti-corruption measures that draw oninternational standards and comparative experiences while taking the nationaland local contexts into consideration.
UNDP-ACIAC was joinedby the Government of Morocco in March 2011. The anti-corruption focus inMorocco started in 2005 and has been steadily progressing since then. Itemerged with the development of the Government's first anticorruption plan in2005, and more so with the ratification of the UNCAC and the establishment ofthe Central Authority for Corruption Prevention (ICPC) in 2007. Achievementssince then have made Morocco one of the leading countries in the region in thearea of anti-corruption. Nonetheless, the Government and key nationalstakeholders recognize that there is still substantial work to be done toachieve the desired progress. ln 2011, governance reforms, includinganti-corruption, were further elevated onto the national agenda, amidst risingpublic demand for additional reforms, which also echoed the calls in the otherArab countries. On 17 June 2011, the push for reform reached a turning pointwhen His Majesty King Mohamed VI announced a series of constitutional changesincluding a special chapter dedicated to improving governance and strengtheningnational anti-corruption institutional arrangements. These announcements werethen enshrined in the new Constitution, approved by referendum on 1 July 2011.The subsequent elections produced a new parliamentary majority, which led tothe formation of a new government in January 2012. The government began work todevelop the country’s first national anti-corruption strategy. In parallel,efforts are underway to develop existing laws in line with the new Constitutionincluding the law governing the work of the ICPC. Under this law, ICPC ismoving towards acquiring law enforcement powers and is seeking to prepareitself for this eventuality.
The Consultant is expected tocomplete the tasks enumerated above during the contract period in accordancewith the following key milestones:
- Submit a progress report on the implementation of the tasks enumerated above by 31 July 2013;
- Submit a second progress report on the implementation of the tasks enumerated above by 30 September 2013.
Inthe event of delay in any of the assigned tasks the consultant will inform ICPCand UNDP promptly so that decisions and remedial action may be takenaccordingly.
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