National task force meeting "Corruption Risks Management in the Health Sector"

Organized by: UNDP-ACIAC in cooperation with the General Administration of Governance and Prevention of Corruption in the Government of Tunisia and the ministry of public health

In cooperation with the Ministry of Public Health and the General Directorate of Governance and Prevention of Corruption in the Presidency of the Government of the Republic of Tunisia, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a national task force meeting on Corruption Risk Management in the Water Sector, on 13 September 2022, in Tunis, within the framework of UNDP’s regional project on Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries (ACIAC), which is implemented in partnership with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

The workshop is based on outcomes of the first phase (2017-2018) of implementing corruption risk management in the health sector of Tunisia, including in procurement and distribution of medicines and health service delivery, as well as the outcomes of the workshop on Corruption Prevention: Integrating Corruption Risk Management in the Governance Units held in Tunis, Tunisia on 8 March 2022 in cooperation with Tunisia's General Directorate on Governance and Corruption Prevention. Moving further, the workshop gave in-depth knowledge to participants on UNDP’s Sectoral Corruption Risk Management (SCRM) methodology and the ways to benefit from its implementation in corruption prevention, its concept, good practices and lessons learned from its application, in particular, considering the previous cooperation between Tunisia and UNDP.

The meeting concluded with a discussion on the steps and prospects of cooperation to revise the outcomes and implement the recommendations of the first phase report, in addition to the areas that can be covered in the second phase of implementing the sectoral corruption risk management in the health sector.