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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
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Commission from the OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation
of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) will
conduct, from
April 8 to 10,
an on-site visit to Haiti with the consent of the host country, as part
of the follow-up process carried out by the Mechanism in various
countries of the region.
The Commission will be made up of representatives from Ecuador and
Panama as well as from the Department of Legal Cooperation of the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the OAS, in its capacity as the
Technical Secretariat of the MESICIC.
Meetings will take place with representatives from oversight bodies
responsible for preventing, detecting and punishing corruption, to
review the manner in which the Inter-American Convention against Corruption
is being implemented in Haiti and to provide firsthand, objective and
complete information for consideration in its national report, which
will be adopted by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC in a meeting
in September, 2014.
It is also expected that meetings will take place with Haitian
civil society organizations in order to address the topics that are
currently being reviewed in the Fourth Round of the Mechanism. In
addition, taking into account that Haiti was not party to the MESICIC
during its First Round of Review, the on-site visit will also provide an
opportunity to address the implementation of topics reviewed in that
Round, such as conflicts of interest; systems for registering income,
assets and liabilities; access to public information; and mechanisms to
encourage participation of civil society in efforts to prevent
corruption.
Within the framework of the Fourth Round of evaluations, the OAS
Anticorruption Mechanism is also expected to visit Belize, Grenada,
Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname in April.
The MESICIC, which began to operate in 2002, is a cooperation
mechanism between States, with the participation of civil society
organizations, established within the framework of the OAS, in which the
legal/institutional framework of each country is reviewed for
suitability with the Inter-American Convention against Corruption as
well as the objective results achieved therein. The incorporation of
on-site visits as a stage and integral part of the MESICIC represents an
innovative and pioneering initiative of the OAS, which, with the
support of the Technical Secretariat, has further strengthened this
review process.
Haiti joined the MESICIC on December 10, 2010, during the Third
Meeting of the Conference of the States Parties to the MESICIC, held in
Brasilia, Brazil.
For further information, please visit the Anticorruption Portal of the Americas.
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