MESICIC Committee of Experts to Review Six Countries
Canada, United
States, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Guatemala will be
reviewed during the Thirteenth Plenary Meeting of the MESICIC Committee of
Experts, which takes place June 23-27 at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
Each country will be reviewed in terms of the progress made in implementing
specific measures from the Inter-American Convention against Corruption,
including measures related to government hiring and procurement and whistle
blower protection.
Prior to the
opening of the plenary meeting, the Committee with hear informal oral reports
from civil society regarding implementation of the selected Convention measures
in the six countries under review.
The Mechanism
for the Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention (known
as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym) is in the midst of its Second Round of
Review, which began in April of 2007 and is scheduled to be completed in
December 2008. At the conclusion of the Second Round, country reports will
have been adopted for all 28 States Parties to the MESICIC. Please visit our
website
for a full
schedule
of the Second Round, as well as copies of the
country reports
adopted to date.
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Anti-Corruption Newsletter
Edition N° 16 - June 2008
What is the MESICIC?
- The Mechanism For Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against
Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to support the development
of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption through cooperation between
States Parties.
Read more here…
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