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On Monday, March 17, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EST), the Committee
of Experts of
the Mechanism for Follow-up on the Implementation of the
Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) will meet
with civil society organizations from countries being reviewed at
its Twenty-Third Plenary Meeting. In this respect, Transparency
International and its national chapters of Canada (Transparency
International Canada), Guyana (Transparency
Institute of Guyana) and Nicaragua (Fundación Grupo Cívico
Etica y Transparencia) have been invited to participate in this
informal meeting as they submitted
an independent response to the questionnaire
of the Fourth Round on the implementation in these States of the
Inter-American Convention, within the timeframe and terms of the
MESICIC regulations. The documents submitted by these civil society
organizations are available here.
This meeting will allow the 31 States that make up the MESICIC to
hear the perspectives of these organizations on the implementation
of the Inter-American Convention, prior to the country review
process which will be carried out at the Committee’s Twenty-Third
Plenary Meeting.
The live webcast of this session may be followed through the
following links:
The MESICIC is an intergovernmental mechanism, which in its
regulation allows for broad participation of non-governmental and
civil society organizations.
More information about the participation of civil society
organizations in the MESICIC is available here. |
Edition N° 165 - March 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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