financial integrity - amira tlilli, oecd (english)
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PRESENTATION OF THE REGIONAL PROJECT
“SUPPORTING CORRUPTION RISK
MAPPING FOR EFFECTIVE INTEGRITY
REFORMS IN MENA COUNTRIES”
October 12-13, 2016 MENA SBO, Kuwait City, Kuwait Amira TLILI Public Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division Public Governance &Territorial Development Directorate OECD
Bilateral
projects
Regional
collaboration
Support MENA countries
efforts to
• enhance good governance,
• build strong government
institutions resilient to
corruption
Support of MENA-OECD Governance
Programme
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• Financial support of US grant.
• A regional analysis that focuses on the internal control
systems and processes in the MENA region.
• The aim is to valorize the existing processes and practices,
favor the sharing of experiences among countries in the
region and bring it closer to the international standards and
good practices.
Project “the corruption risk mapping for
effective integrity reforms in MENA countries”
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• The need for governments to ensure integrity,
transparency, and accountability has increased following
the financial and economic crisis.
• Internal Control frameworks are recognized as being basic
tools towards preventing, detecting, and responding to
fraud and corruption issues and risks.
Why?
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• It showed to the OECD that there id much appetite for
this topic in the region.
• It highlighted the existant confusion - within the region
and from a country to another - concerning the real role
of the IC and how it should be initiated/applied, by
whom…
Pilot Project on Internal control and Risk
management in Tunisia
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• The focus of this project is to identify the
role of Internal Control arrangements in
identifying and dealing with fraud and
corruption issues.
For what purpose?
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• The basic idea is to provide for a “peer-to-peer” platform
for exchanges of views on Internal Control issues in the
MENA Region, and fostering technical discussions to
identify workable solutions for common challenges.
• A questionnaire was prepared to provide the necessary
data to present a snapshot of the current Internal
Control systems operating in the involved countries.
How?
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7 participating MENA countries
Tunisia
Morocco
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Oman
Palestinian Authority
A broad spectrum of beneficiary institutions
Ministries in charge of public administration and finance
Anti-corruption agencies
Inspectorate bodies
Supreme audit institutions
Who?
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An electronic
survey tool
A series of regional
workshops and
seminars
A regional report
Project components
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An electronic survey tool of 60
targeted questions
To collect relevant country data
and information from
beneficiaries and partners
- for the drafting of a regional
comparative report
- feed in the regional dialogue
and the exchange of views and
practices
1. The survey
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For example:
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The meeting of the MENA Working Group
on Integrity and Civil Service on the 18th of
April 2016 at the OECD headquarter.
A four-day workshop, organized on 29
May - 2 June 2016, in Kuwait City, in
collaboration with the IMF Middle East
Center for Economics and Finance.
2. Regional workshops and seminars
Policy-makers and practitioners in the internal control, audit and anti-corruption fields around the MENA region have gathered to exchange views and best practices for ensuring that sound and robust internal control systems respond effectively to fraud and corruption risks in the public sector
a.
b.
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• Participation of peers from US, France. Germany, the Netherlands, Mexico and Chile.
• It was an occasion to :
– present the project, raise awareness on key concepts and develop capacities for
identified beneficiary institutions.
– discuss the survey in detail – e.g. limitations or difficulties encountered in
answering some questions.
• Feedback from participants on the substance and working methods:
– many governments are undertaking or envisaging reforms of their internal
control frameworks
– the method of peer-learning and policy dialogue, led by leading international
peers and experts, was very appreciated.
a. The meeting of the MENA Working Group on
Integrity and Civil Service
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• Brought together 36 high civil servants, policy-makers and practitioners
from 13 MENA countries, active in:
– Public procurement, infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships
(PPP) ;
– Internal control, audit and risk management, anti-corruption and anti-
fraud.
• Contributed to unfolding the linkages between internal control and
procurement, with regards to anti-corruption policy and good governance in
PPP and infrastructure projects.
b. The training workshop organized in Kuwait City
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• In providing a peer-to-peer platform for policy dialogue and expert discussions,
participants from the seven MENA countries and beyond, were able to identify
workable solutions to common challenges.
• These solutions broadly fit into 4 strategic recommendations, designed to assist
MENA governments in:
– defining the purpose, scope and attributes of internal control functions and
components,
– ensuring smooth implementation through enhanced resource and material
capacity,
– and specifically targeting fraud and corruption as key risks for public sector
operations.
3. The report “Internal control for effective
integrity and anti-corruption reforms in the MENA
region”
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Thank you for your attention