Workshop on Programming in support of Anti-Corruption Agencies Bratislava, 30 June - 1 July 2009

1. Workshop on Programming in support of Anti-Corruption AgenciesBratislava, 30 June - 1 July 2009 A methodology for capacity assessment of AC agencies: implementing the capacity development framework in the field of anti-corruption

2. Objectives of methodology: • Present preventive anti-corruption functions most commonly performed by ACAs; • Adapt UNDP capacity development (CD) concepts to the context of ACAs; • Provide guidelines for conducting capacity assessments.

3. Most common preventive functions: • Policy formulation: • Conducting research • Developing Implementation Plans • Legislative drafting • Monitoring the implementation of AC policies • Evaluation of the effectiveness of AC policies • Coordinating implementation of preventive policies • International cooperation • Disseminating knowledge • Enhancing civil society participation • Enforcement of preventive anti-corruption measures

4. vs. formulation in UNCAC: • Public Sector recruitment • Codes of conduct • Public procurement and financial management • Judicial integrity and independence • Private Sector accounting and auditing • Participation of society • Anti-Money Laundering

5. Step 1: Engage Stakehold. on CD Process Step 5: Evaluate CD Step 2: Assess Capacity Assets and Needs Step 4: Implement CD Strategies Step 3: Formulate CD Strategies UNDP capacity development framework: Capacity Development Process

6. Enabling environment (policies, legislation, power relations) Organizational level (internal policies, procedures, frameworks) Individual level (experience, knowledge, technical skills) 3 levels where capacity resides:

7. Enabling environment • ‘rules of the game’ for interaction between and among organizations • broader system in which individuals and organizations function • policies, rules and norms, values, governing mandates, priorities, modes of operation, and civic engagement across • facilitates or hampers performance

8. Organizational level • internal policies, arrangements, procedures and frameworks • allow an organization to operate and deliver on its mandate • enable the coming together of individual capacities to work together and achieve goals • if in place, well-resourced and well-aligned, overall capability is greater than that of the sum of its parts

9. Individual level • skills, experience and knowledge that are vested in people • each person has a mix of capacities that allows them to performs • some are acquired through formal training and education • some are acquired through learning by doing and experience

10. e.g. diagnostic research:

11. Steps in capacity assessments: • Preparation • Clarification of objectives and expectations with primary clients • Identification and engagement of stakeholders • Determining data collection and analysis approach • Defining how the assessment will be conducted

12. Preparation: • review the legal basis of the agency • analyze circumstances of the agency’s creation • identify of the main enabling environment issues • review the mandate (scope of preventive functions performed) • outline the main capacity issues that need to be assessed

13. Clarification of objectives: • clarify intentions of the promoters of the assessment • secure agreement to provide all the necessary data • obtain commitment that the identified needs will be addressed • review the expertise, time, funds available, • clarify the scale and scope of the assessment

14. Engagement of stakeholders: • identify all relevant stakeholders • state institutions • civil society • private sector • other • agree on terms of stakeholder input

15. Data collection and analysis approach: • identify the types of data needed • correlate available data sources against data needs • review feasibility of generating needed data • compile overview of qualitative and quantitative data that will be collected or generated, • review data analysis requirements

16. Define how assessment will be conducted: • define the assessment management team • determine participants • decide on location • define in detail the following: • steps/tasks of the assessment and their sequence • human and financial resources needed for each • person(s) responsible for each step/task • timeline for each step/task • plan how the results will be used

17. Suggestions/comments welcome! Marijana Trivunovic trivunovic@gmx.net