UNCAC Coalition

Happy and relaxing holidays from us at the UNCAC Coalition! 👉 Want to work with us in the new year? We are looking for offers 1) to relaunch our website and brush-up our visual identity – by 17 January; and 2) for an external evaluation assessing the impact of our work under an ongoing project funded by Norad and other donors – by 13 January. Details: https://lnkd.in/dgsrXzi

🌍 What did our network achieve this year? 1️⃣ The Center for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity launched a monitoring mechanism to assess Nigeria's UNCAC implementation 🇳🇬 2️⃣ The Wildlife Justice Commission helped dismantle an international pangolin trafficking ring operating in Malaysia 🇲🇾 3️⃣ Open Ownership helped the Philippine government develop a cutting-edge new government procurement act 🇵🇭 => https://lnkd.in/dmh_fZ8t 4️⃣ Transparency International France secured a formal warning against Nestlé over reportedly unethical lobbying activity 🇫🇷 5️⃣ The Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) prompted improvements in Bulgaria’s Anti-Corruption Strategy and money laundering enforcement 🇧🇬 6️⃣ AMAN Coalition (TI Palestine) successfully advocated for a cross-sectoral Anti-Corruption Strategy in Palestine 🇵🇸 7️⃣ Open Data Charter helped the Dominican government strengthen its open data portal 🇩🇴 8️⃣ The HEDA Resource Centre helped the Nigerian government trace more than 300 million USD in laundered assets 🇳🇬 9️⃣ The Jordan Transparency Center successfully advocated for a stronger Whistleblower Protection Act 🇯🇴 🔟 Semillas para la Democracia exposed the link between organized crime and political financing in Paraguay 🇵🇾 🌟 These are just some of the successes our global community has had this year, demonstrating the value of civil society participation in the fight against corruption. 🎉As we celebrate #IACD2024, we call on States and other stakeholders to put civil society participation first. ✊ Civil society #DeservesAVoice in the fight against corruption. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3OKzI3C #UnitedAgainstCorruption 🌎

🌍 What did our network achieve this year? 1️⃣ The Center for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity launched a monitoring mechanism to assess Nigeria's UNCAC implementation 🇳🇬 2️⃣ The Wildlife Justice Commission helped dismantle an international pangolin trafficking ring operating in Malaysia 🇲🇾 3️⃣ Open Ownership helped the Philippine government develop a cutting-edge new government procurement act 🇵🇭 => https://lnkd.in/dmh_fZ8t 4️⃣ Transparency International France secured a formal warning against Nestlé over reportedly unethical lobbying activity 🇫🇷 5️⃣ The Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) prompted improvements in Bulgaria’s Anti-Corruption Strategy and money laundering enforcement 🇧🇬 6️⃣ AMAN Coalition (TI Palestine) successfully advocated for a cross-sectoral Anti-Corruption Strategy in Palestine 🇵🇸 7️⃣ Open Data Charter helped the Dominican government strengthen its open data portal 🇩🇴 8️⃣ The HEDA Resource Centre helped the Nigerian government trace more than 300 million USD in laundered assets 🇳🇬 9️⃣ The Jordan Transparency Center successfully advocated for a stronger Whistleblower Protection Act 🇯🇴 🔟 Semillas para la Democracia exposed the link between organized crime and political financing in Paraguay 🇵🇾 🌟 These are just some of the successes our global community has had this year, demonstrating the value of civil society participation in the fight against corruption. 🎉As we celebrate #IACD2024, we call on States and other stakeholders to put civil society participation first. ✊ Civil society #DeservesAVoice in the fight against corruption. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3OKzI3C #UnitedAgainstCorruption 🌎

Financing for Development: join our side event tomorrow, Wed, 4 Dec, 11:30 am New York time: “Building a North-South Consensus on New Approaches to Safeguarding Development Financing from Corruption” All details and Teams link: uncaccoalition.org/ffd-2/ #Ffd4

💡 Are you an expert on gender and corruption? 💡 If so, we need your help! 🙌 The UNCAC Coalition Working Group on Gender, Inclusion, and Corruption is working to strengthen its advocacy on two crucial issues: 1️⃣ The intersection of gender and corruption 2️⃣ Sexual corruption legislative provisions 📢 If you have insights or information about either of these issues, we invite you to fill out our questionnaires today ✍️ 🔗 Learn more and contribute here: https://bit.ly/49asbob Laura Nyirinkindi Elin Bjarnegård Michele Coleman Zakhona Mvelase, CFE U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

🌍🌱 Environmental crime and corruption are fueling the climate crisis. While the UN and other multilateral fora have increasingly recognized the need to combat corruption that facilitates crimes affecting the environment, the linkages to climate change have received far less attention. This needs to change. We need to bolster the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), and other multilateral fora to ensure the nexus between climate change and environmental crime and corruption is understood and forcibly addressed. 📢 In our new discussion paper, published today, we call on governments and global fora to take decisive action, including: 1️⃣ Integrate measures to combat corruption as part of the UNFCCC’s mitigation and adaptation goals. This includes concrete action to curb corporate undue influence in COPs, which are at real risk of losing credibility as starkly seen at COP29. 2️⃣ Strengthen cooperation and coordination between the UNCAC, UNFCCC, and UNTOC to advance climate action. 3️⃣ Strengthen and effectively implement the UNCAC and UNTOC at the national level to combat corruption and crimes that affect the environment to advance climate action. 4️⃣ Create a safe and enabling environment at the country level to provide the conditions for civil society actors to operate freely from threats, harassment, intimidation, and violence in their efforts to combat the nexus between environmental crime and corruption, and its impacts on the environment and climate. 5️⃣ Promote the active and meaningful participation of civil society actors to ensure effective climate responses. We ask all stakeholders in the fight against climate change to join us in this call. ✊🌱 📖 Read the discussion paper in full here: https://bit.ly/3ZgS7ek #COP29 #endENVcrime #UnitedAgainstCorruption #StopOrganizedCrime Wildlife Justice Commission

We are looking for a new colleague to join our team: we are hiring a full-time communications officer at the UNCAC Coalition hub in Vienna to work on coms outputs on our global anti-corruption work. 👉 Deadline: 2 Dec. Details: https://lnkd.in/eynP_s9T

🌍 How can anti-corruption efforts help safeguard the financing for development agenda? 🔍✨ Find out in our #FfD4 side event 📅 - co-hosted with Open Ownership, Open Contracting Partnership, FACT Coalition and the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. 🤝 🗓️ 29 October ⏰ 1:15-2:30 PM (EDT) 📍 UNHQ, New York 💻 https://bit.ly/3UMoT4H 🔗 More info: https://lnkd.in/eEjAcvVy

🚨 Important opportunity to strengthen the UNCAC review mechanism 🚨 📢 Listening session with non-governmental stakeholders regarding the next phase of the Implementation Review Mechanism (IRM). 🗣️ Join the session and call on UNCAC States Parties to make the review mechanism #FitForPurpose. ✅ 📅 29 October 🕒 15:00 - 16:30 (CET) 👉 Register: https://bit.ly/4fbqgBu

BREAKING🚨 Transparencia Venezuela & INRAV publish report on #UNCAC implementation in #Venezuela📄🇻🇪 Main findings:  ⚠️Minimal implementation of anti-corruption measures  🚫Highly limited access to information  ⚖️No judicial independence Full report 👉 https://bit.ly/3TTjhVL