International Anti-Corruption Commitments

Title of the document

Kuala Lumpur Statement on Anti-Corruption Strategies (https://anti-corruption.org/kuala-lumpur/)

Issuing body

High level representatives of anti-corruption authorities as well as national planning authorities from the South, East and Southeast Asia and anticorruption experts.

Brief description

This was an outcome of an invitation by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with the Government of Malaysia, to discuss a set of Guidelines for Anti-Corruption Strategies that could instruct the process of developing, designing and implementing sustainable anti-corruption strategies.

Relevant excerpts

The participants:

1. Recommend the following:

Anti-Corruption Strategy Development Process (see the Statement for more details)

Anti-Corruption Design & Content (see the Statement for more details)

Anti-Corruption Strategy Monitoring & Evaluation (see the Statement for more details)

2. Encourage Anti-Corruption and National Planning Authorities to promote these recommendations within their respective agencies, countries and regional/international networks in a time-bound manner.

3. Call upon Anti-Corruption and National Planning Authorities to promote these recommendations in order to assist members of the executive and the legislature and the judiciary, and the public in general, to better understand and support anticorruption strategies in their development, design, and implementation and monitoring.

4. Welcome the commitment of the host country to raise these recommendations at the 5th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the UNCAC and encourage other participating countries to support this initiative.