Crime Prevention & Anti-Corruption

As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on Organized Crime and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNODC undertakes training for criminal justice practitioners and promotes cross-border information-sharing in order to assess and analyse organized crime trends and also assists Member States in the implementation of the UNCAC. In terms of anti-corruption initiatives, UNODC Southern Africa has been working on a series of programmes in the region with the key understanding that corruption impacts negatively on society by hitting hardest at the poorest and most vulnerable in society. Since 2001, UNODC Southern Africa has embarked on a series of campaigns to assist Governments in the region in their fight against corruption. Thus far, the regional office has undertaken operations in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland.

On the crime side, UNODC Southern Africa has been active in strengthening the legislative and judicial capacity of Southern African countries to ensure the ratification and implementation of international conventions and instruments on drug control, organized crime, corruption, terrorism and money laundering. UNODC has focused on capacity building for the effective implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in the Southern Africa Development Community region.

Within this focal area, UNODC Southern Africa has completed, or is in the process of executing programmes, such as: