UNCAC

Selected Literature

• UNDP (2005)
  Institutional Arrangments to Combat Corruption: A Comparative Study
  UNDP, Democratic Governance Practice Team, Regional Centre in Bangkok
  The 2003 UN Convention Against Corruption requires the establishment of preventative anti-corruption bodies and specialized anti-corruption law enforcement bodies (or one body carrying out both). This publication provides an overview of the different models for anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) used in various countries, and looks at their advantages and disadvantages. One of its main conclusions is that whether there is an ACA or not, a key problem in practice is the interaction or effectiveness of other institutions engaged in fighting corruption, such as the prosecutor’s office, auditor-general and courts, and the study devotes an entire chapter to the problem of coordination. In the second part, 13 country briefs provide an excellent summary of the anti-corruption frameworks (and their effectiveness) in countries ranging from Singapore to Tanzania.
  (http://regionalcentrebangkok.undp.or.th/.../Corruption_Comparative_Study-200512.pdf)

• UNODC (2006)
  Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption
  UNODC, Division for Treaty Affairs, Vienna (www.unodc.org)
  This guide aims to assist States seeking to ratify and implement the Convention by identifying legislative requirements, issues arising from those requirements and various options available to States as they develop and draft the necessary legislation. While drafted mainly for policymakers and legislators, the guide also provides a helpful basis for bilateral technical assistance projects undertaken to promote broad ratification and implementation of the Convention.
  (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/corruption/CoC_LegislativeGuide.pdf)

• Pieth, M (ed.) (2008)
  Recovering stolen assets
  Basel Institute on Governance
  Experience with asset recovery is limited, and a number of legal and other obstacles continue to impede progress. This book constitutes the first comprehensive work on asset recovery, written by renowned practitioners and academics representing different legal systems and countries. The authors discuss 'success stories' of the past and concrete challenges for the future with regard to search, seizure, confiscation and repatriation of stolen assets. The book also provides perspectives on the role of technical assistance and donors in asset recovery and the likely impact of the UNCAC.
  (http://www.baselgovernance.org/publications/books/)

• Transparency International (2006)
  Report on Follow-up Process for UN Convention against Corruption
  This paper provides recommendations on the way monitoring of the UNCAC could be organised and carried out. It gives a useful overview of lessons learned from experience monitoring other anti-corruption conventions.
  (http://www.transparency.org/...onventions/uncac/uncac_monitoring_report)

• Rooke, P (2004)
  The UN Convention against Corruption
  in Global Corruption Report 2004 (Part Two: Global, Regional and Country Reports, p 111)
  This article provides a concise overview of the negotiation process, and outlines the Convention’s provisions on preventive measures, criminalisation, international cooperation, technical assistance and mechanisms for implementation.
  (http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr/gcr_2004)

• UNDP (2008)
  A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption
  This book is targeted at national stakeholders, donors and international actors involved in corruption measurement and anti-corruption programming. It explains the strengths and limitations of different measurement approaches, and provides practical guidance on how to use the indicators and data generated by corruption measurement tools to identify entry points for anti-corruption programming. Recognizing UNCAC as an important monitoring framework for combating corruption, this guide also tries to tie existing indicators and toolkits to the specific anticorruption provisions contained in the Convention.
  (http://www.undp.org/...ip/users_guide_measuring_corruption.html)

• Basel Institute on Governance
  Asset Recovery Knowledge Centre
  The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) at the Basel Institute on Governance in Basel, Switzerland has been taking steps to address the problem of the lack of easily accessible, comprehensive and practical information on Asset Recovery. This has been identified as one of the key problems by a number of countries at the first meeting of the UNCAC open-ended Working Group on Asset Recovery held in Vienna in August 2007.
  (http://www.assetrecovery.org/kc/)

• BMZ
  GTZ's UNCAC project's home page
  Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has pledged to support partner countries in implementing the Convention. To help implement this it has instituted a special project: the German UNCAC project.
  (http://www.gtz.de/en/themen/politische-reformen/korruption/19075.htm)

• UNODC
  UNODC's webpage on corruption issues
  (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/corruption/index.html?ref=menuside)

• Transparency International
  Transparency International's UNCAC web pages
  This site provides practical information on the first official CoSP as well the related CSO meetings and calls for the registration of interested CSO representatives.
  (http://www.transparency.org/...l_conventions/projects_conventions/uncac)

• UNODC
  Official UNCAC website
  (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/index.html)

• World Bank
  Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative
  (http://web.worldbank.org/...~piPK:64168435~theSitePK:5570285,00.html)

• International Group for Anti-Corruption Coordination (IGAC)
  IGAC website
  (http://www.igac.net/)

• Corruption Eradication Commission - The Republic of Indonesia (2006)
  GAP Analysis Study Report
  Identification of Gaps between Laws/Regulations of the Republic of Indonesia and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.
  (http://www.kpk.go.id)

• Institute of Governance Studies
  UNCAC: A Bangladesh Compliance & Gap Analysis
  This revised GAP report is a manifestation of the Bangladeshi government’s continuous efforts to have a comprehensive and in-depth assessment on the status of implementation of the UNCAC in Bangladesh.
  (http://www.igs-bracu.ac.bd/archive.php?pageid=3)

• Kenya Department for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs (2009)
  Kenya: UNCAC Gap Analysis Report and Implementation Plan
  The purpose of this Gap analysis is to ascertain the extent of Kenya's compliance with UNCAC and to design a schedule for full implementation of the Convention.