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UNODC conducts the "Workshop for the Design and Implementation of an Institutional Anti-Corruption Strategy" for the Integrity Commission of Trinidad & Tobago 

On 9 October 2018, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with the support of the Government of Canada, conducted the "Workshop for the Design and Implementation of an Institutional Anti-Corruption Strategy", in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.  

During the opening ceremony, Justice Melville Baird, Chairman of the Integrity Commission, welcomed participants and highlighted the importance of initiatives currently promoted to strengthen the institution, including legislative reforms to allow access to data sources, as well as the exchange of information.

The methodology presented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the purpose of the workshop, is based on the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and consists of four main elements, namely: a preliminary diagnosis; the drafting of anti-corruption measures; ensuring effective implementation; while monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

Furthermore, Article 5 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) imposes general requirements that State Parties: (a) develop and implement or maintain effective, coordinated anti-corruption policies; (b) establish and promote effective practices aimed at the prevention of corruption; and (c) periodically evaluate relevant legal instruments and administrative measures with a view to determining their adequacy to prevent and fight corruption.

The Integrity Commission is one of the main anti-corruption bodies in Trinidad & Tobago, assigned with the important mission to fight and combat this scourge. In this sense, the training aimed at transmitting a matrix based on the logical framework methodology, which simplifies the task of defining and structure priorities, outcomes and the necessary steps to achieve them.

The workshop was conducted by Ms. Cristina Ritter, Legal Expert of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for Central America and the Caribbean and was attended by the Chairman and ten (10) public officials of the Integrity Commission of Trinidad & Tobago.