South Korea’s Anticorruption and Civil Rights Commission agreed to share its corruption-fighting know-how with developing countries, in an MOU signed with the United Nations Development Program on Friday.
“With this MOU, we want to increase our strategic opportunities to help increase the anticorruption capacity of developing countries by combining the UNDP’s policy expertise and country-level presence, with ACRC’s anticorruption technical expertise and innovative tools, such as the Anticorruption Initiative Assessment and other exemplary policy initiatives,” said ACRC’s vice chairperson Kwak Jin-young, who signed the agreement with Magdy Martinez-Soliman, the assistant secretary-general of the U.N. and assistant administrator of UNDP.
The ACRC will work with the UNDP Seoul policy, established in 2011 to represent UNDP in Korea, for the next two years in pursuing projects joint with the developing countries.
The two groups have launched a pilot project to help Vietnam adapt the ACRC’s anticorruption initiative assessment tool to its national contexts. The AIA, which kicked off in 2002, assesses efforts by public organizations to eradicate corruption each year and shares model cases, according to the ACRC.
“By supporting the ACRC’s programs’ implementation to developing countries, the organization will not only contribute to the countries’ integrity, but also promote Korea’s quality anticorruption policies,” the ACRC said.
By Yoon Min-sik (minsikyoon@heraldcorp.com)
