SECOND NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION SUMMIT: Towards the National Anti-corruption Programme

1. SECOND NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION SUMMIT:Towards the National Anti-corruption Programme Portfolio Committee: Public Service and Administration Cape Town 25 May 2005

2. DOCUMENTS • Brief overview of the Second National Anti-corruption Summit • Resolutions of the Second National Anti-corruption Summit: 2005 • Role and Functioning of the National Anti-corruption Forum and Implementation of the National Anti-corruption Programme • Report Card on first National National Anti-corruption Summit: 1999

3. OVERVIEW • Background to the Summit • Preparing for the Summit • Brief overview of the Summit • Resolutions and process towards the National Anti-corruption Programme • The Summit Report

4. BACKGROUND • Founding MOU requires Summits every two years • March 2004 meeting of the NACF: Call for Summit to celebrate successes, analyse challenges, map way forward and revisit the role of the NACF • NACF instructed Secretariat (Public Service Commission) to organise Second Summit • NACF appointed task team representative of the Public, Business and Civil Society Sectors to support the Secretariat • Chairperson of NACF has commended the role of task team

5. PREPARATIONS • The Secretariat of the NACF (the Public Service Commission) was responsible for organising the Summit • Worked on the basis of a business plan developed in consultation with the task team • Funding for the Summit came from Government (budgets mainly from OPSC and small amounts from DPSA), and three donor partners, namely the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, DFID and gtz • Each Sector was responsible to do own preparations for the Summit: • Public Sector: The Anti-corruption Coordinating Committee took lead and made recommendations to MPSA • Civil Society: Hosted a preparatory meeting the day before Summit – financially supported by Government and UNODC • Business Sector – coordinated by South African Insurance Association

6. OVERVIEW • Second Summit was held on 22 and 23 March 2005 at the CSIR, Pretoria • Theme: Fighting Corruption Together: Past Achievements, Future Challenges • President delivered keynote address • 390 delegates- • Business – 43 • Public – 191 • Civil Society – 122 • Other (donors, SADC representatives, etc.) – 34

7. OVERVIEW • Plenary and six commissions • Ethics and Prevention of corruption • Combating Corruption • Transparency, Oversight and Accountability • Resolutions Committee comprising of sectoral representatives drafted 27 resolutions

8. RESOLUTIONS • 27 resolutions categorised under (a) Ethics, Awareness and Prevention, (b) Combating, (c) Oversight, Transparency and Accountability and (d) the National Anti-corruption Forum • Clusters of resolutions: • Whistleblowing • Coordination • Implementation of anti-corruption legislation • Post-public sector employment • Research • Financial disclosures • Awareness • NACF • Apartheid corruption

9. TOWARDS THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAMME • Informal and multi-sectoral task team has developed a draft NAP • NACF referred the draft to sectors for input (12 May 2005) • NACF appointed Implementation Committee, consisting of DG:DPSA, CEO: Business Against Crime and the convener of Civil Society Network Against Corruption to establish projects and project management arrangements (2 June 2005) • IC to report to EXCO of NACF on a quarterly basis • NACF meeting on 23 June 2005 to consider NAP

10. SUMMIT REPORT • A full Summit Report is being prepared by the Secretariat and will be available in July 2005