OSCE supports Uzbekistan’s efforts to strengthen anti-corruption efforts

On 23 September 2022, the Second International Tashkent Anti-Corruption Forum was organized by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Uzbekistan.

More than 140 participants (35% women and 65% men), including experts from 12 countries and 14 international organizations discussed in the capital of Uzbekistan the openness and transparency as an effective mechanism for fighting corruption, the formation of an effective assessment of corruption risks, and the role of education in fight against corruption.

The participants touched upon the essence and features of anti-corruption reforms on the example of different countries and best practices. The host parties brought to the attention of the international community the results of reforms carried out in the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of combating corruption.

Expected result of the event is to draft proposals and recommendations for the development of an anti-corruption policy and new anti-corruption tools based on international best practices.

In order to use open data towards state efforts on combating corruption, the PCUz within its activities to promote preventing and combating corruption through digitalization and increased transparency collaborated with the International Open Data Charter (ODC) to conduct an open-data mapping exercise and issue recommendations for anti-corruption open data policies and practices implementation based on the exercise. This includes the evaluation of the status of anti-corruption data via the mapping exercise to produce a set of recommendations for datasets to be opened. These recommendations were developed for the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan.