The OECD's Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN) helps fight high-level corruption in the region.
The ACN assesses anti-corruption measures, allows confidential exchanges of methods between investigators and prosecutors, and identifies good practices in tackling corruption. It also provides technical assistance in projects on demand from individual countries. The ACN has been a catalyst of anti-corruption reforms in the region and has benefitted from the ownership, dedication and commitment demonstrated by participating countries.
The ACN Steering Group, its main decision-making body, is composed of national co-ordinators from ACN countries as well as representatives from partner bodies, which include international organisations, civil society and business groups engaged in anti-corruption work in the region. The Steering Group guides the ACN's Secretariat, which is responsible for developing, implementing and assessing the ACN work programme, endorsed by participating countries’ anti-corruption leaders.
The ACN's partners include the: European Union; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; United Nations Development Programme; Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption; Council of Europe Development Bank; Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe; World Bank; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Regional Anti-corruption Initiative; Regional School of Public Administration; Transparency International; US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; and other international, non-governmental, business and academic organisations. OECD members also participate as partners or donors.
