The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is one of the significant global tools to hold states to account on corruption. The method used is called the Implementation Review Mechanism, which allows for periodic country peer review of a state’s performance against the commitments in the Convention.
The content of the Implementation Review Mechanism (IRM) rules are regularly discussed and civil society always tries to improve the IRM by making submissions. In mid-October TINZ lobbied the New Zealand representative in Vienna ahead of a meeting to be held there from 4th-8th November 2024. We asked him to support civil society’s calls:
- to increase transparency of the country review process,
- to make the review process more inclusive through engagement of civil society in the review process
- to increase efficiency of the review process – at the moment country reviews including New Zealand’s are years behind their due dates;
- to produce meaningful outcome documents, not just executive summaries that are too broad to enable countries to be held to account at home.
Our advocacy at global level supports the UNCAC Coalition, which Transparency International and many other chapters of TI are members of.
