CCPCJ brownbag lunch series on

SDG16 implementation

- target 16.5

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

16 May 2019

The importance of SDG 16

Goal 16 and its targets

Goal 16 as an

enabler for other

Goals

Corruption and the SDGs(Goals 16 – 17)

SDGs Corruption….

Goal 16:

Promote peaceful and

inclusive societies for

sustainable development,

provide access to justice

for all and build effective,

accountable and inclusive

institutions at all levels.

Goal 17: Strengthen the

means of implementation

and revitalize the global

partnership for sustainable

development.

• Weakens democratic institutions, undermines the delivery of justice

and distorts the rule of law.

• Encourages conflict, undermines the stability of states, is an

obstacle to consolidating peace and is a barrier to reconstruction

and consolidation in post-conflict countries.

• Shares a nexus with organized crime in its various forms including

drug/human trafficking, transnational crimes and terrorism.

• Violates human rights and subverts political rights and free

expression, for example through the distortion of election results.

• Weakens both domestic and international resource mobilization

efforts and affects efforts to improve domestic capacities for tax

and other revenue collection.

• Discourages the inflow of official development assistance and

impacts on the implementation of investment promotion

regimes for least developed countries.

16.10 Ensure public access to

information and protect

fundamental freedoms, in

accordance with national

legislation and international

agreements 16.7 Ensure responsive,

inclusive, participatory and

representative decision-

making at all levels

16.6 Develop effective,

accountable and transparent

institutions at all levels

SDG 16

16.A Strengthen relevant national

institutions, including through

international cooperation, for

building capacity at all levels, in

particular in developing countries,

to prevent violence and combat

terrorism and crime

16.3 Promote the rule of law

at the national and inter-

national levels and ensure

equal access to justice for all.

16.5 Substantially reduce

corruption and bribery in all

their forms

16.4 … reduce illicit financial

flows… strengthen the

recovery and return of stolen

assets and combat all forms of

organized crime.

SDG 16 – target 16.5

INDICATORS:

16.5.1

Proportion of persons who had at least one contact with

a public official and who paid a bribe to a public official,

or were asked for a bribe by those public officials, during

the previous 12 months

16.5.2

Proportion of businesses that had at least one

contact with a public official and that paid a bribe to a

public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public

officials during the previous 12 months

Measuring Progress

High-level Political Forum (HLPF):

• - in 2019 convened under the auspices of ECOSOC and will include the

review of SDG 16

Voluntary National Reviews (so far 184)

Indicators:

Guidance products are being developed

UNODC-UNDP Joint publication on target 16.5

http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Crime-

statistics/CorruptionManual_2018_web.pdf

Various other initiaitves outside of SDG debate aim to improve monitoring of

control of corruption (e.g. academic research projects)

4 Substantive Chapters

International

Cooperation

(Chap. IV)

Preventive

Measurses

(Chap. II)

Asset

Recovery

(Chap. V)

Criminalization

& Law

Enforcement

(Chap. III)

The added value of UNCAC

UNCAC as Comprehensive Programming Framework not only in the area of

Justice but as a tool to mainstream anti-corruption measures into different

sectors

UNCAC Implementation Reviews as

(neutral) entry points for dialogue

and for pro-integrity reforms

UNCAC as directly relevant to the

achievement of SDG 16

Impact

Broad inclusion of stakeholders – civil society and private sector

Renewed impetus to UNCAC ratification and accession

A forum for knowledge development, exchange & peer learning

A forum for TA needs identification and matching

Improvement of national coordination

A catalyst for anti-corruption reforms

Examples

Corruption related to wildlife crime

Supporting corruption risk

assessment and

management (wildlife and

fisheries authorities)

Mentoring law

enforcement in financial

investigations

Increasing global

knowledge on how wildlife

crime is being perpetrated

Stronger, more

transparent and

effective

institutions

Reduced risk of

corruption

More targeted

actions

Gender and Corruption Expert Group Meeting

Bangkok – September 2018

More research is needed!

• Gender disaggregated data

needed to facilitate evidence-

based policymaking and to

enable the development of

gender-specific approaches to

fight corruption.

• Need to complement this with

qualitative investigation/

analysis

Why UNODC fights corruption in sport?

“Sports bring out the best of us. Honour

and fair play are integral to the conduct of

sporting events, and to our enjoyment of

them.

But the joy that sports bring to billions of

fans around the world can so easily be

marred by crooked practices such as

match-fixing. Corruption and the

involvement of trans-national organized

crime in sport undermine confidence in

results and tarnish reputations. Added to

this, the huge profits generated by match-

fixing can be channelled into other illegal

activities.”

- Mr. Yury Fedotov,

Executive Director, UNODC

(Good Practices in the

Investigation of Match-Fixing)

How UNODC fights corruption in sport?

UNODC Publications and Technical Tools

Implementation Support Section

Corruption and Economic Crime Branch

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

uncac@un.org/ follow @UNODC on twitter!

Questions?