Luis De Sousa, a Global Integrity contributor in Portugal, is offering to train anti-corruption agency staff. The Second Meeting of the Network on Anti-Corruption Agencies (ANCORAGE-NET) will take place at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) on 14-16 May 2008.
Application instructions and details are here:
Open Call for Trainees
The program schedule is reposted here:
EMPOWERING ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCIES:
DEFYING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE AND STRENGTHENING PREVENTIVE AND REPRESSIVE CAPACITIES
Lisbon, 14-16 May 2008
ISCTE, Auditório Afonso de Barros (Ala Autónoma)
WORKSHOP DIRECTOR: Luís de Sousa, CIES-ISCTE (luis.sousa@iscte.pt)
ORGANIZATION: Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-ISCTE)
CO-FINANCED BY: Hercule Grant Programme, European Antifraud Office (OLAF)
IN COOPERATION WITH: The Australian National University (ANU)
OTHER SPONSORS: FCT, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, British Council, FLAD (Luso-American Foundation), Público
PARTICIPANTS: Heads of Anti-Corruption and Law Enforcement Agencies (EU Member States, Candidate Countries and Associated Countries), Justice senior officials, foreign ACA officials, NGO representatives and academics.
PROGRAMME
DAY I – WEDNESDAY, MAY 14
WELCOME TO PARTICIPANTS
(10:00)
Luís Reto (President of ISCTE, Portugal)
Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE, Portugal) and Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia)
OPENING ADDRESS
(10:15-11:00)
Opening speech by the Director General of the European Antifraud Office (OLAF)
Mr. Franz-Hermann Brüner
Coffee break (15 min)
PLENARY SESSION 1: DEFYING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
(11:30-13:00)
Bertrand de Speville (Formerly Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong and Scientific Adviser to the Council of Europe’s Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption, UK) “Failing anti-corruption agencies – causes and cures”
Jon Quah (Anti-Corruption Consultant, Singapore) “Defying Institutional Failure: Learning from the Experiences of the Anti-Corruption Agencies in Asian Countries”
Frank Anechiarico (Hamilton College, US) “Fighting Corruption in Metropolitan Cities: The Problem of Finding Best Practices”
Debate
Lunch (13:00-15:00)
ROUNDTABLE 1
HOW TO MAKE THE LEGISLATOR HEAR YOUR CLAIMS FOR STATUTORY REFORM?
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “INDEPENDENCE”?
WHAT MAKES A STRONG LEADERSHIP?
HOW TO IMPLEMENT A SOUND MANAGERIAL STRATEGY?
HOW TO MAXIMISE THE SCOPE OF MANDATE (INFORMAL INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT)?
PULLING OUT THE “INSTITUTIONAL VACUUM”: HOW TO ENGAGE OTHER KEY PLAYERS?
HOW TO BUILD AN IMAGE OF CREDIBILITY?
(15:00-16:30)
Chair: To be announced
Rapporteurs: Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE, Portugal) and Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia)
Coffee break (20 min)
WG 1 DISCUSSION
(17:00-18:00)
DAY II – THURSDAY, MAY 15
PLENARY SESSION 2: STRENGTHENING THE REPRESSIVE CAPACITY OF ACAS
(10:00-13:00)
Brendan Quirke (Liverpool Business School, UK)
Rosalind Wright (Chairperson of the Fraud Advisory Panel, UK and Member of OLAF’s Supervisory Committee)
Mick Symons (New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, Australia)
Debate
Lunch (13:00-15:00)
ROUNDTABLE 2
MANAGING SYSTEMS OF COMPLAINTS
SPECIAL POWERS AND GUARANTEES
INTELLIGENCE FACILITATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACROSS STATE DEPARTMENTS
SETTING JOIN INVESTIGATIVE TEAMS
THE USE OF ICT IN INVESTIGATION
(15:00-16:30)
Chair: Abel Fleitas Ortiz de Rozas (Head of the Anti-Corruption Office of the Argentine Government)
Rapporteurs: Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE, Portugal) and Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia)
Coffee break (20 min)
WG 2 DISCUSSION
(17:00-18:00)
DAY III – FRIDAY, MAY 16
PLENARY SESSION 3: STRENGTHENING THE PREVENTIVE CAPACITY OF ACAS
(10:00-13:00)
Angela Gorta (New South Wales Police Integrity Commission, Australia)
Bryane Michael (Linacre College/Oxford, UK) ‘Quantitative Methods for Anti-Corruption Agencies and Internal Security Units’
Cláudio Abramo (Transparência Brasil, Brazil) ‘Information and State monitoring’
Debate
Lunch (13:00-15:00)
ROUNDTABLE 3:
DEVELOPING RESEARCH METHODS ON ETHICAL/CORRUPTION ISSUES
SURVEYING AND PROFILING TOOLS
BUILDING/MANAGING PUBLIC MONITORING TOOLS AND DATABASES
ASSESSING RISK AREAS
(15:00-16:30)
Chair: To be announced
Rapporteurs: Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE, Portugal) and Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia)
Coffee break (20 min)
WG 3 DISCUSSION
(17:00-18:00)
Presentation of conclusions from the Rapporteurs:
Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE, Portugal) and Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia)
CLOSING ADDRESS
(18:15)
Closing Speech by The Portuguese Attorney-General,
Mr. Fernando Pinto Monteiro (to be confirmed)
Group photo & Conference dinner
SATURDAY MORNING: GROUP EXCURSION TO SINTRA AND CASCAIS
ABSTRACTS
Bertrand de Speville (Formerly Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong and Scientific Adviser to the Council of Europe’s Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption, UK)
Title: “Failing anti-corruption agencies – causes and cures”
Abstract: Anticorruption agencies are usually created when corruption has spread so widely that offences of bribery are no longer investigated or prosecuted. But many of these agencies fail dismally to have any impact. The causes of failure fall into broad categories relating to political considerations, realism in objectives and expectations, strategic vision, the anti-corruption laws, implementation policies and practices, public confidence and staying in control of the problem. From the examination of particular causes, what needs to be done to give the next anti-corruption initiative a chance of success becomes obvious. The presentation concludes by pointing out that an anti-corruption agency is not in itself the answer to a country’s corruption problems. An agency can ever only be a part of the solution. It is however the part on which success depends.
Jon Quah (Anti-Corruption Consultant, Singapore)
Title: “Defying Institutional Failure: Learning from the Experiences of the Anti-Corruption Agencies in Asian Countries”
Abstract: The first Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) was established in Asia with the formation of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in Singapore in October 1952. More than two decades later, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was created in February 1974 to curb corruption in Hong Kong. The effectiveness of the CPIB and ICAC in minimizing corruption in the two city-states has led to the increased reliance on ACAs to spearhead the anti-corruption strategies in other Asian countries. More specifically, ACAs were set up in these countries: Malaysia (October 1967), Brunei (February 1982), Nepal (1990), Sri Lanka (November 1994), Pakistan (November 1999), Thailand (November 1999), Macao (December 1999), South Korea (January 2002), Indonesia (December 2003), Bangladesh (August 2004), Bhutan (January 2006), and Mongolia (December 2006). However, the 12 ACAs in the above countries have not been as effective as the CPIB and the ICAC for various reasons. The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to identify the factors responsible for the effectiveness of the CPIB in Singapore and the ICAC in Hong Kong; (2) to explain why the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) in Thailand, and South Korea’s Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption (KICAC) are less effective than the CPIB and ICAC; and (3) to identify the lessons that can be learnt by the ACAs in European countries to avoid institutional failure from the success of the CPIB and ICAC and the failure of the KICAC and NCCC. This paper focuses on the CPIB, ICAC, KICAC and NCCC for two reasons. First, there is a great deal of literature and data on these four well-known ACAs. Second, because of space constraints and availability of data, the KICAC and NCCC were selected for comparison with the CPIB and ICAC by the author because of his familiarity with these four ACAs.
Frank Anechiarico (Hamilton College, US)
Title: “Fighting Corruption in Metropolitan Cities: The Problem of Finding Best Practices”
Abstract: The title indicates a focus that will concentrate on the U.S., but use an historical and comparative approach to consider the difficulty of developing theories that explain and predict the outcome of corruption controls. The broad difference – and shades of grey – between value oriented and rule oriented strategies will be at the center of my talk. I will also consider the ways in which the New Public Management has influenced corruption control. Best practices, as a concept, should be applicable to integrity management. Is it?
Cláudio Abramo (Transparência Brasil, Brazil)
Title: ‘Information and State monitoring’
Abstract: The growing availability of information in bulk provided both by State institutions and private sources such as the media opens up a fertile terrain for the development of monitoring initiatives conducted by pressure groups and NGOs. Cross-referencing data obtained from a variety of different sources result in aggregations and analyses that exhibit patterns that otherwise tend to remain hidden. Transparência Brasil, a Brazilian NGO dedicated to combating corruption, enhancing the State integrity and to promote access to information, has been exploring that potential since its inception in 2001. Using both State-originated information and data collected by itself (such as from newspapers), the organization created several Internet-based tools that third parties use to monitor different aspects of the State’s activities. Not only the media and other NGOs use the resulting information for their ends, but also public prosecutors, investigators, State auditors and other State agents benefit from the data treated by Transparência Brasil in their work.
BIOGRAPHY OF GUEST SPEAKERS
Frank Anechiarico (Ph.D., Indiana) Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, studies constitutional law and public administration. He is the coauthor (with Eugene Lewis) of Urban America: Politics and Policy (2nd ed., 1983) and the author of “Suing the Philadelphia Police: The Case for an Institutional Approach,” Law and Policy Quarterly (1984) and “Remembering Corruption: The Elusive Lessons of Scandal in New York City,” Corruption and Reform (1990). Contributing editor of Corruption and Racketeering… The New York City Construction Industry, a report to the Governor from the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. He is co-author with Steven Lockwood of “The Responsibility of the Police Command for Street Level Action,” Law and Policy (1991) and with James B. Jacobs of “The Continuing Saga of Municipal Reform,” Urban Affairs Quarterly (1992), and “Visions of Corruption Control,” Public Administration Review (1994). He was a research fellow of the Center for Research on Crime and Justice at New York University Law School during 1991-92. Anechiarico and Jacobs’ book, The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government is published by University of Chicago Press (October 1996). He has also published in Administration and Society.
Angela Gorta is the Principal Analyst at the New South Wales Police Integrity Commission, based in Sydney Australia. Dr Gorta conducted criminological research for more than ten years while working as the Senior Research Officer and then as Chief Research Officer of the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services. Prior to her work at the Police Integrity Commission, Dr Gorta was the Research Manager at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), an agency established to expose and minimise corruption in the New South Wales public sector. During her ten years at the ICAC, Dr Gorta managed the ICAC’s significant research program which focused on informing efforts to reduce public sector corruption. While at the ICAC she designed, conducted and/or supervised a range of original empirical research projects. Amongst other projects, Dr Gorta created a profile of the functions, corruption risks and prevention strategies across the New South Wales public sector to identify where further intervention would be most effective to assist individual public agencies strengthen their capacity to minimise and manage corruption risks. She also designed a wide range of surveys to explore employee and community understanding of corruption and barriers to taking action about it. A number of other agencies have sought to replicate some of the research initiatives designed by Dr Gorta in their own jurisdictions.
Bertrand de Speville is a lawyer by profession. He practised in the private and public sectors in London and Hong Kong and was Solicitor General of Hong Kong before being asked to turn his attention to corruption and good governance. Since stepping down in 1996 as the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong (ICAC), Mr. de Speville has advised governments and international organisations on various aspects of anti-corruption policy and practice. He is currently the advisor to the Council of Europe’s Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption.
Cláudio Abramo is currently Executive Director of Transparência Brasil an NGO devoted to the fight against corruption by means of coalitions between the public sector, civil society and the private sector. Its work is based on a National Integrity Network made up of organisations and individuals united around programs developed in the federal, state and municipal levels, as well as initiatives directed to society in general and its specific sectors. He is responsible for setting up various online databanks for monitoring the assets and interests of elective officials (Excelências) and party financing (Às Claras) in Brazil.
Jon S.T. Quah, Ph.D., was Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Co-editor of the Asian Journal of Political Science until his retirement from NUS in June 2007 after 35 years of service. He is now a consultant on anti-corruption strategies, civil service reform, and policy analysis in Asian Countries. His visiting appointments include: the East-West Center in Honolulu; the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard Institute of International Development; the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley; the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies and the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University; and the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University. He has published widely on anti-corruption strategies, civil service reform, and public personnel management in Asian countries. His most recent book is Curbing Corruption in Asia: A Comparative Study of Six Countries (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003). He was commissioned by Transparency International (TI) of Berlin in August 2006 to prepare the Regional Overview Report of the National Integrity Systems in nine Asian countries. This TI Regional Overview Report on East and Southeast Asia can be downloaded from http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/nis/regional/asia_pacific. For more details of Professor Quah’s publications and professional activities, see his website at http://www.jonstquah.com.
Luís de Sousa is principal researcher in Political Science at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal. He is the coordinator of the Portuguese Observatory of Ethics in Public Life and Project Director of ANCORAGE-NET (www.ancorage-net.org). His research interests focus on corruption control and ethics reform, political system reform, comparative politics and public policies, European integration, e-democracy and corporate governance. Most recent publications include: ‘The regulation of political financing in Portugal: a political and historical analysis’, West European Politics, January 2004, 27(1), 124-145; ‘Hard responses to corruption: Penal standards and the repression of corruption in Britain, France and Portugal’, Crime, Law and Social Change, October 2002, 38(3), 267-294; ‘Corruption and Parties in Portugal’, West European Politics, 24(1), January 2001, 157-180; ‘Corrupção, ética de governo e eleitores: Algumas reflexões sobre o impacto da corrupção e impropriedade, como ‘voting issue’, durante a queda das maiorias Social-Democrata e Conservadora em Portugal (1995) e no Reino Unido (1997)’ in Braga da Cruz (ed.) A Reforma do Estado em Portugal – Problemas e Perspectivas, Lisboa, Bizâncio, 2001; (co-authored with Yves Mény) ‘Corruption Political/Public Aspects’ in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York, Pergamon/Elsevier, 2000.
Michael (Mick) Symons Mick Symons was appointed to the position of Executive Director Investigation Division (ICAC – NSW) on 4 June 2007. A former Chief Superintendent with the South Australia Police, Mr Symons was the Officer in Charge of Major Crime Investigation Branch and the Anti Corruption Branch. He also has extensive experience in the investigation of organized crime, paedophilia, and major drug offences. Mr. Symons has a Master of Business Administration, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration (Policing), a Graduate Diploma in Fraud Investigation, a Graduate Certificate in Management, a Law Degree (with Hons) and a B. Bus (Marketing) Degree. He is admitted to the South Australian Bar to practice in that State. He is an Adjunct Lecturer with the Charles Sturt University (Australian Police College Campus) with responsibility for Investigation Management subjects.
Peter Larmour is a Reader in the Policy and Governance program at the Australian National University. His book Foreign Flowers: Institutional Transfer and Good Governance in the Pacific Islands was recently published by the University of Hawaii Press. He is co-directing with Barry Hindess a three-year research project on ‘Transparency International and the Problem of Corruption’ funded by the Australia Research Council.
Rosalind Wright CB was called to the Bar in 1964 and later practised as a tenant in the Chambers of Morris Finer QC. Between 1983 and 1987 she was Head of the Fraud Investigation Group in the Director of Public Prosecutions Department. She prosecuted major fraud cases in the Greater London area. Before her appointment in 1997 as Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Mrs Wright was General Counsel and an Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Authority (now part of the Financial Services Authority) and had also been Head of Prosecutions. She played a key role in defining enforcement policy within the developing securities industry regulatory regime. Mrs Wright was Director of the Serious Fraud Office from April 1997 until April 2003, when she was appointed by the European Commission to the OLAF Supervisory Committee on a three-year term. She is also Chairperson of the Fraud Advisory Panel and a non-executive director of the Office of Fair Trading and the Department of Trade & Industry.
Brendan Quirke Lecturer at Liverpool Business School, UK.
Bryane Michael is currently at Linacre College (Oxford) and serves as a Senior Advisor to the European Union on Anti-Corruption and Governance issues for Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Azerbaijan. He has trained over 70 corruption investigators in both intelligence-led and statistics-led investigation techniques and 40 prosecutors in EU best practice in prosecutorial strategy. He formerly worked for almost 5 years with the World Bank and the OECD on anti-corruption programmes for Turkey, Russia, Bolivia and Nicaragua. He has published over 20 academic articles in the area of anti-corruption.
