Baghdad 17 February 2019 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Jointly with the Commission of Integrity and the Federal Board of Supreme Audit organized the first pre-consultation workshop, to advocate, sensitize and collectively refine the National Index on Anti-Corruption Initiatives.

The workshop was attended by all the Inspector Generals Offices of the Iraqi Ministries to discuss the Anti-Corruption National Index development and the implementation of the workplans, the overall methodology, the role of the inspector generals offices to support the respective ministries and public entities in the implementation process, in addition to identify the criteria to select the corruption practices to be targeted by the index. the implementation is schedhuled to start by the second quarter of the current year 2019.  

The National Index is an innovative policy tool that aims to catalyze self-developed anti-corruption initiatives to counter corruption practices in the public sector, through institutionalizing the corruption prevention measures and approaches, with target to root out corruption causes and close any loopholes in the business processes/procedures.  

This activity came as part of UNDP commitment to support the respective government entities including the Commission of Integrity, the Federal Board of Supreme Audit and the Inspector General Offices to fight corruption pursuant to the MoU signed between UNDP and the Iraqi government in 2016 to assist the investigative and audit bodies in their efforts to combat corruption. This support is provided by UNDP through the Funding Facility for Economic Reform-Federal and with generous contribution from Netherlands earmarked for the National Index on Anti-Corruption Initiatives.

For additional information, please contact:

Ms. Israa Mansour, Communications Assistant, (m): +964 772 260 0576