South East Asia Platform

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The Regional Platform comprises eleven countries:

Brunei
Cambodia
Indonesia
Lao PDR
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Viet Nam

The Regional Platform for South East Asia was created through the regional conference held in Bangkok, from 31^st January to 3^rd February 2017.

At the end of the conference, participants, including high-level officials, technical experts, representatives of civil society and development partners, agreed on a set of recommendations to fast-track the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in the four thematic areas identified as regional priorities.
[Outcome Document]

In 2020, the UNODC Anti-Corruption Team in Southeast Asia promoted best practices in financial investigations, in coordination with anti-corruption agencies and financial investigation units across the region. A key component of the regional programme has been the promotion of transparent beneficial ownership, while research on data analytics and health sector corruption in the context of Covid-19 explores overlooked issues, emerging trends and overlapping corruption risks. UNODC in Southeast Asia works with anti-corruption agencies and other oversight institutions to improve their capacity to assess corruption risks and promote the implementation of mitigation strategies throughout public administrations.

PRIORITY AREAS

Strengthen the capacities for detecting, investigating and prosecuting corruption at the national and international level

^{This thematic area contains the following main topics:
- Increase specialized knowledge through specialized training on corruption and financial investigations}
^{- Create and strengthen specialized prosecution units}
^{- Establish and strengthen national inter-agency mechanisms}
^{- Develop internal guidelines or standard operating procedures for national authorities}
^{- Develop and strengthen the protection of reporting persons and witnesses}
^{- Strengthen international cooperation}

Prevent money laundering, prevent and detect the transfer of proceeds of crime and recover stolen assets

^{This thematic area contains the following main topics:
- Prevent money laundering and transfer of proceeds of crime}
^{- Strengthen asset recovery}

Prevent corruption and enhancing transparency and accountability of public services

^{This thematic area contains the following main topics:
- Capacity building on anti-corruption in public procurement}
^{- Establish and strengthen systems of asset disclosure as well as prevention and mitigation of conflicts of interest}

Civil society

Since civil society participation at the opening Regional Conference in February 2017, a CSO Roundtable on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day 2018 took place in November 2018 in Bangkok and a subsequent follow-up civil society roundtable took place in Manila in November 2019.

Four anti-corruption projects from the CSO network have been awarded grants to further UNCAC implementation in the region into 2021. ... more

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Highlights

Multimedia

UNODC Training on Investigating Corruption

Social Media

Follow #UnitedAgainstCorruption

Twitter Moment
- FAST-TRACKING UNCAC IMPLEMENTATION
IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

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United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime