6th Meeting of the Anti-Corruption Community of Practice in the Arab Region: Towards Enhanced Programming on Corruption Prevention at the Local Level

Organized by: UNDP's Regional Project on Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries (UNDP-ACIAC)

UNDP-ACIAC organized the 6th Meeting of the Anti-Corruption Community of Practice in the Arab Region entitled: “Towards Enhanced Programming on Preventing Corruption at the Local Level” on 28-29 June 2013 in Beirut, Republic of Lebanon. The meeting was organized in cooperation with UNDP’s Global Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (UNDP PACDE) and with the support of UNDP’s Lebanon Country Office. It aimed to introduce anti-corruption in local governance into UNDP's anti-corruption programming in the Arab region through developing the capacities of the members of the regional Community of Practice and enabling them to identify synergies between the two service areas towards a more integrated approach in preventing corruption. Participants to the meeting included leading democratic governance and anti-corruption practitioners from UNDP Country Offices in Arab countries, as well as UNDP experts from the Regional Bureau of Arab States and the Bureau for Development Policy in addition to a selected group of independent experts and national counterparts including governmental and non-governmental experts. Representatives of regional and international organizations and other development partners and technical assistance providers also joined the meeting.