National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC)

The National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC) recommended creating an office of Public Integrity, which would centralize the administration of disclosures for assessment and investigation flows from disclosure forms.

“The National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council has recommended the creation of an office of Public Integrity... one of the functions of that office would be the centralized administration of disclosure for assessment and investigation flowing from disclosure forms. Would that be correct?”

The discussions with NACAC during their term from 2022 to 2025 revealed that NACAC had not fully considered the financial disclosure function as part of the preventive anti-corruption architecture and realized later they had already developed plans for a dedicated agency.

“In our discussions with them, I think it became clear that I do not think that they had fully considered the financial disclosure function as being part of the preventive architecture or something that should be considered within a dedicated corruption prevention agency. And so upon realizing that we had offered to write this research report for them. ... Their recommendations were largely cooked already, that they had already had their ideas and plans, and so we came in at a very late stage to provide this kind of recommendation that financial disclosures might be one of the areas to consider for our office of public integrity.”

The final NACAC report to the President included a section on corruption prevention and explained the concept and core gaps in the broad corruption prevention architecture, beyond financial disclosure, also covering corruption risk assessment and corruption proofing.

“this report was also published as part of the council's final report to the President, there is a section on corruption prevention, and we wrote this to basically explain what corruption prevention concept entails as a concept, and to identify some of the core gaps currently in the broader corruption prevention architecture... It also looks at corruption risk assessment and kind of corruption proofing ... and then helping them to rebuild those institutions.”