Mr. President, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, and distinguished delegates, I extend my sincere greetings to all the guests attending this session in person or virtually.
I now proceed to review part of the preventative measures against corruption undertaken by Egypt:
- The Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt in 2014 included many articles that made it incumbent on the Government to combat corruption, promote the values of integrity and transparency, and closely monitor the implementation of Egypt’s Anti-Corruption Strategy.
- Egypt established the National Coordinating Committee for Combating Corruption, which consists of all law enforcement agencies, together with line ministries, civil society, and the private sector.
- Egypt launched and and followed up on the implementation process of its two-phase National Anti-Corruption Strategy and its gains, for the success rate in the current phase reached 85% between 2019 and 2020
- The Egyptian Government issued the Civil Service Law regulating the provisions applicable to the public servants, which stipulates that the Government is responsible for safeguarding the rights of employees and for prohibiting discrimination among them.
- Egypt issued several codes of conduct, including a code of professional conduct in the government’s administrative apparatus and the Egyptian NGOs and institutions, as well as a guidelines manual for implementing the Integrity Pact in the private sector, and an ethical charter for university students. Moreover, a mandatory academic course titled "Human Rights and Combating Corruption" was introduced in all Egyptian universities.
- Egypt issued a law to regulate and address the challenges facing contracts concluded by public authorities.
- The Ministry of Finance kept on regularly publishing the General Budget and the Government’s Procurement Plan on the Ministry's website.
- Egypt established a system linking national databases to push for the implementation of information infrastructure and digital transformation. In addition, a comprehensive guide to the government’s services was developed, published, and made available for citizens through Egypt’s Goverment’s Services Portal.
- Media campaigns have been launched to draw the citizens’ attention to the dangers of corruption, whilst enhancing their sense of responsibility and individual accountability towards eradicating corruption by conveying knowledge on the criminalization of corruption and ensuing penalties.
- Civil society organizations have taken part in the meetings tackling the methods to lay out the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
- A poll on the work environment in 2019 has been conducted to assess thee employees’ perception of the work environment and take proportionate measures to improve the quality of worklife .
- 45 electronic services on the Digital Egypt portal and 42 electronic services on the localities services portal have been provided, besides conducting a poll to measure public satisfaction with those services.
- Finally, simulation conference of the ninth session of the Conference of State Parties (COSP9) was convened with the help of Cairo University students and in coordination between the Administrative Control Authority, Cairo University and the United States Agency for International Development, and in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The conference aimed at engaging the youth in the international efforts to prevent and combat corruption.