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Anti-corruption Policy Making in Practice: Implications for Implementing UNCAC

Broad national anti-corruption strategies have so far been a popular response by governments to wide-spread corruption in many countries. The results have, however, been mixed. This U4 Brief argues that States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) should have a strategic vision when they "develop and implement or maintain effective, coordinated anti-corruption policies" as Article 5 stipulates. The authors also argue that anti-corruption policies may be conducted in many different ways, and they are not limited to anti-corruption strategies alone.

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1 January 2008
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Anti-corruption Policy Making in Practice: Implications for Implementing UNCAC

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Hannes Hechler
Karen HussmannIndependent consultant

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Hechler, H.; Hussmann, K.; (2008) Anti-corruption Policy Making in Practice: Implications for Implementing UNCAC. Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2008:1)

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Hannes Hechler
Karen Hussmann

Karen Hussmann is a public policy expert with extensive experience in governance, anti-corruption issues, health-sector integrity, and fragile states. Her experience includes having been the director of an EU financed anti-corruption programme in Colombia, senior consultant for the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and the EUROsociAL II Programme in Latin America, and accountability expert with UNDP in Afghanistan. She has also worked many years with Transparency International. She is currently an independent consultant conducting applied policy research and working with partners on policy development and implementation of anti-corruption standards. She teaches the U4 online courses Essentials of anti-corruption and Corruption risk management.

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conventions, corruption, UNCAC – United Nations Convention against Corruption, governance, state capture, anti-corruption agencies, anti-corruption policy, anti-corruption tools

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