Combating corruption, improving governance in Africa: regional Anti-Corruption Programme for Africa (2011-2016): programme document

Abstract

This regional anti-corruption program for Africa aimed at up scaling the fight against corruption on the continent with a view to ensuring a corruption free, better governed and economically prosperous continent. The United Nations convention against corruption (UNCAC) (2003) and the African Union convention on preventing and combating corruption (AUCPCC) (2003) constitute the main policy and political frameworks for the formulation of this program. The project engages at the national, sub-regional and regional levels with support to national anti-corruption institutions, the pan-African body of national anti-corruption institutions, sub-regional networks of national anti-corruption institutions, and the African Union advisory board on anti-corruption. The main objectives of the program is to eradicate or significantly reduce corruption in Africa as a means of facilitating its socio-economic development and promoting the welfare of its people.