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During the three days of work, meetings were held
with representatives of the Auditor General’s Office, the Ministry of
the Public Service, the Offices of the Services Commission, and the
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, in order to obtain
objective and complete information and reveal potential difficulties in
the implementation of the Inter-American Convention. The team also met with
representatives from the Liaison Office of the Prime Minister, the
Government Press Office, and the Attorney General’s Ministry, in order
to discuss matters related to the implementation of recommendations that
were formulated by the MESICIC to Belize in the First Round of review,
pertaining, among other issues, to the establishment of post-employment
conflict of interest restrictions, as well as issues related to access
to information. The team also had the
opportunity to meet with several civil society and private sector
organizations in order to learn their perspectives regarding the fight
against corruption in The results of this visit forms part of the review
process for the Fourth Round that is currently being carried out by the
Committee of Experts of the MESICIC, which will conclude with the
adoption of the Belize country report by the Committee at its
Twenty-Fourth meeting to be held in September 2014, in Washington DC at
OAS Headquarters. The MESICIC 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 review
process represents an innovative and pioneering initiative in the
context of the OAS, especially for a peer review mechanism and the
importance of the issues it addresses. For more information, please visit the Anti-corruption Portal of the Americas . |
Edition N° 180 - April 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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