THE AFRICA
REGIONAL CENTRE
OF EXCELLENCE IN INTEGRITY
('AFCOE')
SERVING AFRICA
by combatting corruption, advancing human rights, and improving compliance with the law of armed conflict
“Our hope for the future depends also on our resolution as
a nation in dealing with the scourge of corruption.
Success will require an acceptance that, in many respects,
we are a sick society."
Nelson Mandela
State of the Union Address
Parliament
Cape Town, 5 February 1999
Parliament
Cape Town, 5 February 1999
The AFCOE will
- Enhance South Africa’s position as a continental hub and thought leader;
- Promote the counter-corruption agenda of Governments in the Continent
- Contribute to steps necessary to address and remove (or prevent) FATF ‘grey listing’;
- Encourage Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa and across the Continent;
- Provide a world-class training centre of excellence within and for the Continent;
- Support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; 2023 at STIAS
- Address national development goals for participating countries, such as, for example, 4 of the 10 Critical Actions of South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030;
- Establish satellite and indivisible Centres sitting in strategic regions of Africa (e.g., North, East and West Africa)
- Hold in November 2023 the Pan-African Counter-Corruption Assembly;
- Host thereafter the Africa Counter-Corruption Dialogue for global leaders;
- Confer the Annual Counter-Corruption Awards for Africa;
- Provide training in Human Rights and the Law of Armed Conflict to support and protect the Continent’s armed forces and law enforcement agencies; and
- Help to alleviate poverty by reducing corruption.
"I wholeheartedly support and commend the establishment of the AFCOE and the convening of the Africa Counter-Corruption Dialogue, because these are initiatives that I believe can and will over time make a significant contribution to defeating corruption, and to unshackling those presently constrained by its limiting and corrosive effects."
Prof Thuli Madonsela
Law Trust Chair in Social Justice (Stellenbosch University)
THE DECLARATION AT THE 2022 COUNTER-CORRUPTION SUMMIT TO ESTABLISH afCOE & THE PAN-AFRICA COUNTER-CORRUPTION AFRICA DIALOGUE