SECOND NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION SUMMIT: Towards the National Anti-corruption Programme

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SECOND NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION SUMMITTowards
the National Anti-corruption Programme

• Portfolio Committee Public Service and
  Administration
• Cape Town
• 25 May 2005

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DOCUMENTS

• Brief overview of the Second National
  Anti-corruption Summit
• Resolutions of the Second National
  Anti-corruption Summit 2005
• Role and Functioning of the National
  Anti-corruption Forum and Implementation of the
  National Anti-corruption Programme
• Report Card on first National National
  Anti-corruption Summit 1999

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OVERVIEW

• Background to the Summit
• Preparing for the Summit
• Brief overview of the Summit
• Resolutions and process towards the National
  Anti-corruption Programme
• The Summit Report

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BACKGROUND

• Founding MOU requires Summits every two years
• March 2004 meeting of the NACF Call for Summit
  to celebrate successes, analyse challenges, map
  way forward and revisit the role of the NACF
• NACF instructed Secretariat (Public Service
  Commission) to organise Second Summit
• NACF appointed task team representative of the
  Public, Business and Civil Society Sectors to
  support the Secretariat
• Chairperson of NACF has commended the role of
  task team

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PREPARATIONS

• The Secretariat of the NACF (the Public Service
  Commission) was responsible for organising the
  Summit
• Worked on the basis of a business plan developed
  in consultation with the task team
• Funding for the Summit came from Government
  (budgets mainly from OPSC and small amounts from
  DPSA), and three donor partners, namely the
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, DFID
  and gtz
• Each Sector was responsible to do own
  preparations for the Summit
• Public Sector The Anti-corruption Coordinating
  Committee took lead and made recommendations to
  MPSA
• Civil Society Hosted a preparatory meeting the
  day before Summit financially supported by
  Government and UNODC
• Business Sector coordinated by South African
  Insurance Association

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OVERVIEW

• Second Summit was held on 22 and 23 March 2005 at
  the CSIR, Pretoria
• Theme Fighting Corruption Together Past
  Achievements, Future Challenges
• President delivered keynote address
• 390 delegates-
• Business 43
• Public 191
• Civil Society 122
• Other (donors, SADC representatives, etc.) 34

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OVERVIEW

• Plenary and six commissions
• Ethics and Prevention of corruption
• Combating Corruption
• Transparency, Oversight and Accountability
• Resolutions Committee comprising of sectoral
  representatives drafted 27 resolutions

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RESOLUTIONS

• 27 resolutions categorised under (a) Ethics,
  Awareness and Prevention, (b) Combating, (c)
  Oversight, Transparency and Accountability and
  (d) the National Anti-corruption Forum
• Clusters of resolutions
• Whistleblowing
• Coordination
• Implementation of anti-corruption legislation
• Post-public sector employment
• Research
• Financial disclosures
• Awareness
• NACF
• Apartheid corruption

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TOWARDS THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAMME

• Informal and multi-sectoral task team has
  developed a draft NAP
• NACF referred the draft to sectors for input (12
  May 2005)
• NACF appointed Implementation Committee,
  consisting of DGDPSA, CEO Business Against
  Crime and the convener of Civil Society Network
  Against Corruption to establish projects and
  project management arrangements (2 June 2005)
• IC to report to EXCO of NACF on a quarterly basis
• NACF meeting on 23 June 2005 to consider NAP

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SUMMIT REPORT

• A full Summit Report is being prepared by the
  Secretariat and will be available in July 2005