practices. To support these efforts and to assist the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative’s 28 member countries in strengthening … countries’ experiences in strengthening frameworks to protect public procurement from bribery and corruption risks. …

Corruption in public procurement has become a major issue in the Asia-Pacific region as elsewhere in the world. As a … result of corruption, private mansions are being built instead of bridges; swimming pools are dug instead of irrigation … urgent need to fight corruption in public procurement. To identify risk-areas in their public procurement frameworks and to …

Under which it proliferates. They know first hand that corruption jeopardizes security and economic growth, perpetuates …'s population to commit to working together to fight corruption under the umbrella of the Asian Development Bank (ADB …)/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific. Civil society and …

The harmful effects of corruption on social welfare, political stability and economic development are well known …. Combating corruption has gained high priority throughout the world. In Asia and the Pacific, 23 countries have in the framework … of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific endorsed an Anti-Corruption Action Plan that guides …

corruption cases in the Initiative’s members. The study covers three main areas: the legal basis and preconditions for … of corruption. The report is based primarily on independent research, information that members of the Initiative provided … Corrupt and the Proceeds of Corruption and the November 2006 Steering Group meeting, during which the draft report was …

Over the last decade, societies have come to realize the extent to which corruption and bribery have undermined their … corruption to be of the highest priority. …

mutual legal assistance in corruption cases in 27 of the 28 jurisdictions which have endorsed the Anti-Corruption Action Plan … for Asia-Pacific of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific: Australia; Bangladesh; Cambodia; P.R. China …

Criminalisation is a key component of all international anti-corruption instruments. For example, the OECD Convention … UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) both require States Parties to enact specific criminal offences on bribery. The … Asian Development Bank (ADB)/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Corruption Initiative …