OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Country Monitoring Dashboard

The 46 countries Party to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention are subject to a careful peer review monitoring process to ensure that obligations under the Convention are met. Monitoring of the Convention’s implementation is conducted by the OECD Working Group on Bribery, which is composed of all Parties to the Convention. Country evaluation reports follow a defined monitoring process. Each country undergoes successive phases of evaluations, the latest of which, Phase 4, started in 2016. Evaluation reports are published on the OECD website.

The Country Monitoring Dashboard is a pilot tool that highlights where a country is in the evaluation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and related instruments that are a result of the phase-evaluation reports. It shows where countries are subject to additional monitoring measures as a result of inadequate implementation of certain aspects of the Convention. The Dashboard also highlights when a country has been subject to an additional monitoring measure from a concern raised outside of the phased-evaluation reporting process. The Dashboard is updated after each OECD Working Group on Bribery plenary meeting.

The Working Group on Bribery’s country evaluation reports contain recommendations to improve a country’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and related instruments.

Within two years of an evaluation, in its two-year follow-up report, the Working Group assesses the status of the country’s implementation of all recommendations. A country is normally under regular follow-up between an evaluation and a two-year follow-up report.

At any point following an evaluation, the Working Group may adopt additional measures if a country is inadequately implementing certain aspects of the Convention. For each country subject to additional measures, the dashboard indicates:

• The number of additional measures agreed upon by the Working Group in the current evaluation phase.
• The number of issues currently under additional measures. 
• The recommendations or issues under additional measures. For each, there is one dot: a yellow dot indicates a recommendation or issue that has been outstanding for up to five years and a red dot indicates a recommendation or issue that has been outstanding for more than five years.

A country is awaiting its next evaluation when it has completed its two-year follow-up report, and when it is not, or no longer, subject to additional measures.

The Dashboard does not provide a comprehensive overview of the Convention’s implementation by its Parties. It shows where countries are currently subject to additional monitoring measures as a result of inadequate implementation of certain aspects of the Convention.

Some countries may not currently be subject to additional measures despite inadequate implementation of certain aspects of the Convention. The Working Group on Bribery may be waiting for more information on an implementation issue before adopting an additional measure. In particular, this may be the case when a country is inadequately implementing certain aspects of the Convention and is scheduled to undergo an evaluation in the near future.

The Dashboard should be considered in conjunction with other sources of information on countries’ implementation efforts, including country reports, foreign bribery enforcement data and horizontal studies. Phase 4 country reports highlight countries’ good practices and positive achievements. More detail on countries Parties to the Convention can be found by hovering on the Dashboard or clicking on the “Country summaries” tab.