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Anti-corruption Standards

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007

13. To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment he has made of the efforts of the international aid agencies to promote anti-corruption standards in developing country programmes. (130173)

In promoting anti-corruption standards in partner countries it is very important that international agencies ensure a consistent message on corruption. We do this by assessing and influencing the approaches of other agencies. Recently we have been involved with; the World Bank process to develop a Governance and Anti-Corruption Framework and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee to formulate common approaches to corruption in partner countries. This initiative included a joint mission to Cameroon to enable agencies to assess each other’s approaches to addressing corruption; and other bilateral donors on implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption.