On 22-23 January 2024, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, organised a regional workshop in Strasbourg on “Corruption risk assessment and management tools in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region”. The workshop brought together practitioners from anti-corruption and policy making institutions from five countries from the EaP region (Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia). The event contributed to sharing good comparative practices related to identifying and assessing corruption risks in the public and private sector but also to presenting the Council of Europe’s approach to national corruption risk assessment.
Over the past years, the EaP countries have advanced substantially with designing internal tools and legislative frameworks to regulate corruption risk assessment and management processes. Though some countries use more advanced tools and have established clear mandates in this field others have started to improve this process following recent institutional set-ups and legislative framework development. To this extent, the event aimed at strengthening cooperation in the EaP region by allowing participating jurisdictions to share experiences regarding their own institutional or external corruption risk assessment practices and discuss provisions of the legislative/regulatory frameworks.
Furthermore, apart from discussing corruption risk assessment in the public sector expert interventions addressed the need for nuanced regulations to incentivizes private sector to strengthen compliance with anti-corruption and integrity rules.
The Project will continue to provide support in the EaP region through raising awareness about new solutions and innovations developed in other jurisdictions in the field of combating and preventing economic crime, offer policy recommendations and provide a framework for cooperation and exchange of experience between the countries.
This event is part of the European Union and the Council of Europe joint programme “Partnership for Good Governance”, co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe, and implemented by the Council of Europe, in the framework of the regional project on “Strengthening measures to prevent and combat economic crime in the Eastern Partnership region”.
