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COLOMBIA COMMUNICATES ITS CONSENT TO RECEIVE ON-SITE VISIT OF THE
OAS ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM
Colombia, through its Permanent Mission to the OAS,
formally notified its consent to receive an on-site
visit of the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the
Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against
Corruption (MESICIC), as part of the of the review
process for the Fifth Round of Review.
This is the second time that Colombia has granted its
consent to receive an on-site visit from a team from the
MESICIC.
The first visit took place in April 8-10, 2013 in
Bogota, during the Fourth Round of Review of the
Mechanism. The results of that visit form part of the
Colombia country report adopted
by the MESICIC Committee of Experts in September 2013
within the framework of the Fourth Round of Review,
which will conclude this upcoming March, 2015.
In this Fifth Round, which is to begin shortly, the
MESICIC will review, among others, the progress made by
the States with respect to transparency in systems of
government hiring, procurement of goods and services,
and protection for those who, in good faith, report acts
of corruption. Implementation of other provisions of the
Inter-American
Convention against Corruption will
also be reviewed.
To date, in addition to Colombia, the following
countries have formally expressed their consent to
receive on-site visits for the Fifth Round: Ecuador,
Paraguay, Antigua and Barbuda, Guatemala, Panama,
Honduras, El Salvador, Uruguay, Chile, Guyana, United
States, Mexico and Peru. The MESICIC Technical
Secretariat expects to receive similar notifications
from other States, which have reported that they are
taking the necessary steps domestically to formalize
their consent.
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 on the MESICIC, please visit the Anti-Corruption
Portal of the Americas. |
Edition N° 211 - February 2015
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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