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With
the consent of Haiti, a Commission from the OAS Mechanism for
Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention
against Corruption (MESICIC), will conduct an on-site visit to that
country on April 8 – 10, 2014, as part of the review process that
the Mechanism is carrying out, in accordance with the Methodology
for Conducting On-Site Visits, adopted by its member
states. The Commission will be made up of anti-corruption
experts 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 are to take place with representatives
from oversight bodies responsible for preventing, detecting and
punishing corruption, the purpose of which is to review the manner
in which the Inter-American Convention against Corruption is being
implemented in Haiti and to provide first hand, objective and
complete information for consideration of the country’s first
national report, which will be adopted by the Committee of Experts
of the MESICIC in a plenary 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 this
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. 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. |
Edition N° 160 - February 2014
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.
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