Supporting UNCAC Implementation: Country experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Supporting UNCAC Implementation: Country experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region

June 17, 2015

This report is the proceedings from the a regional technical training on the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) conducted by the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok from 13 to 15 October 2008. The training is a follow-up to the first regional ‘Community of Practice’ meeting, held in January 2007 in Phnom Penh.

The training brought together 61 participants from 18 countries in the region. It aimed to consolidate the Community of Practice in Asia and the Pacific, and to provide participants with strategic guidance in implementing the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2003).

More specifically, it sought to:

● deepen understanding of the technical provisions of the UNCAC and provide guidance in operationalizing the Convention through development programming instruments and mechanisms;

● facilitate exchange of experience and lessons learned in successful implementation of UNCAC provisions in Asia-Pacific countries;

● develop capacity in Asia-Pacific to sustain anticorruption initiatives consistent with UNCAC; and

● foster synergies with other regional anticorruption instruments and mechanism.