In recent years, we have expanded our presence on the ground to bring support closer to the point of delivery. Through our Regional Anti-Corruption Platforms and Hubs, we enhance field-based activities and respond more swiftly to anti-corruption priorities and technical assistance needs identified at regional and country levels. These collaborative and tailored efforts accelerate the implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption.
Building on and evolving from UNODC’s network of field-based advisers, UNODC has established regional anti-corruption hubs as an integral part of its enhanced delivery model. The hubs strengthen UNODC’s field-based infrastructure and global reach to facilitate greater support for anti-corruption reforms based on enhanced partnerships and coordinated assistance with other providers, regional bodies and intergovernmental associations.
Regional hubs comprise anti-corruption teams with diverse and complementary expertise that is consistent with the anti-corruption priorities identified by countries in the regions that they serve. A strengthened field-based capacity enables UNODC, as part of the UN System, to work closer to the point of delivery and support Member States’ anti-corruption efforts by enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of institutions and integrating anti-corruption measures in key sectors, national plans and strategies.
The hubs, embedded in UNODC field offices, backstop and strengthen anti-corruption technical assistance in countries in their designated regions, serving as repositories of regional expertise, good practices and lessons learned in the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. This approach ensures support to countries in their regions and has a global impact as the hubs interact with one another to promote interregional and South-South cooperation.
Hubs are aligned with UNODC’s Regional Strategic Visions and Programmes (Strategic Vision for Africa 2030, Strategic Vision for Latin America and the Caribbean and Regional Programme for South-East Asia and the Pacific). They foster coordination and identify synergies with other technical assistance providers, regional organizations and anti-corruption initiatives, while bringing the capacity to deliver technical assistance closer to States parties in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific. This new approach is also consistent with the UNODC institutional strategy for 2021-2025, which aims to bring UNODC’s global expertise closer to the people being served and enhance efficiency in programme delivery.
The hubs also support UNODC’s regional anti-corruption platforms.
Regional platforms are groups of countries that come together to identify common challenges and priorities in implementing the United Nations Convention against Corruption and devise strategies and commitments to address these challenges. Platforms are created based on the needs of the countries and provide a forum to share experiences and good practices at the regional level.
Each platform adopts a road map of commitments and activities designed to advance countries’ efforts to implement the Convention in thematic areas jointly identified by the participating countries. Technical assistance activities are then designed around these priorities and facilitated and delivered by UNODC’s regional anti-corruption hubs resulting in national and regional activities implemented in coordination with relevant programmes and development partners in the region.
Following the adoption of resolution 9/4 on “Strengthening the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption at regional levels” during the ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, UNODC has continued to facilitate the establishment of regional anti-corruption platforms, while strengthening existing ones.
UNODC currently supports ten regional platforms covering 90 jurisdictions to strengthen regional coordination around agreed priorities to accelerate the implementation of the Convention and facilitate peer-learning.
