Participants:
The meeting brought together government and civil society representatives from countries that made specific Anti-Corruption Summit commitments to fight corruption through increased transparency, in procurement, open contracting and beneficial ownership. The following countries participated in the meeting: Afghanistan, Argentina, Colombia, France, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
These representatives were joined by global experts, anti-corruption practitioners, business representatives, international civil society and representatives from institutions such as the World Bank and the OECD, which are involved in increasing integrity in public procurement.
Objectives:
The meeting helped government and civil society representatives from the participating countries to develop a better understanding of how to take the necessary next steps towards implementing commitments made at the Anti-Corruption Summit. This will put them into a good position to unlock domestic innovations and report back on progress at upcoming international fora. The other meeting representatives gained a better understanding of how they can best contribute to supporting implementation of beneficial ownership transparency and open contracting within their own spheres of influence.
Specific meeting outcomes include:
- Connecting practitioners to each other for peer-learning and support, contributing to an emerging peer network;
- Jointly identifying opportunities, challenges and strategies to implementing these Anti-Corruption Summit commitments;
- Sharing approaches, tools, and practices in anti-corruption open contracting, and beneficial ownership across countries, sectors, and projects;
- Exchanging new ideas and concrete plans on how to accelerate and deepen implementation of commitments to beneficial ownership transparency and open contracting.
Organisers:
The meeting was organised jointly by the Open Contracting Partnership, The B Team, Transparency International and Wilton Park.
Video
We asked participants “What is the next step for tackling global or national anti-corruption?”
Additional information
Beneficial ownership transparency and open contracting and public procurement (comments from Anti-Corruption Summit)
Beneficial Ownership Transparency (Transparency International)
