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Elucidating gender dimensions of corruption – GRECO‘s approach Conference „Incorruptible women? Gender dimensions of corruption“ Prague , 22 February 201 6. General information – about GRECO.
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Elucidating gender dimensions of corruption – GRECO‘s approach Conference „Incorruptible women? Gender dimensions of corruption“ Prague, 22 February 2016
General information – about GRECO • 1994: Conference of Ministers of Justice of the CoE in Valetta, Malta: anti-corruption policies become a new topic for the intergovernmental cooperation (+ priority following 2nd Summit of Heads of State and Government 1997): • → Preparation of programme of action against corruption (1996):multidisciplinary approachincludingpreventionand repressive aspects;identificationof issuesto be addressed
General information – about GRECO → 6 anti-corruption instruments adopted between 1997 and 2003, includingCriminalLawConvention on Corruption (ETS No. 173) anditsAdditionalProtocol (ETS No. 191), CivilLawConvention on Corruption(ETS No. 174) → Creation of GRECO in 1999: monitors the implementation of all anti-corruptioninstruments(mutual evaluations, peer pressure); to date: 49 memberStates (+ negotiations withtheEU), thematic evaluation rounds.Round 3 (2007-2011):incriminations; Round 4(2012-…):parliamentarians,judges and prosecutors;implementation of improvements examined through specificcompliance procedure– about 330 reports in total to date
GRECO - WHY GENDER? • Committee of Minister’s invitation of January 2012 • GenderEqualityRapporteur • Aim: TO FURTHER CLARIFY THE GENDER DIMENSIONS OF CORRUPTION
THE GRECO‘S THREE APPROACHES • A more systematiccollectionofdata • Supportingnationalresearchanddatacollection • Establishcommunicationadnco-operationwithinandoutsidetheCoE
GRECO‘S FINDINGS & ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE • Datacollectionrequest to MS withinthe 4thEvaluationRound • Genderrepresentation • Genderandcorruptionoffencesstatistics • Initiativestaken in different MS to supportnationalresearchanddatacollection
GRECO‘S FINDINGS & ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE • GenderEqualityCommission – GRECO invited to exchangeofviews • EqalityandNon-DiscriminationCommitteeofthe PACE – workingrelationsestablished • UNDP – invitation to GRECO to participate in thedevelopmentof a survey • UNODC – GRECO initiated a collaboration
GRECO‘S FINDINGS & ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE • GRECO Conference on „GenderDimensionsofCorruption“ (Prague, Dec2013) • Round Table on GenderDimensionsof GRECO‘s FourthEvaluationRound (Strasbourg, Oct2015)
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