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

PAN-AFRICAN COUNTER-CORRUPTION THINK TANK

In November 2023, AFCOE provides the Pan-African Counter-Corruption Assembly (PACCA) (International in appeal and held at Ministerial level).

PACCA will be followed in 2024 by the first Africa Counter-Corruption Dialogue, an international annual event primarily for African leaders to build on the work of PACCA and identify and adopt integrated and coordinated Pan-African strategies for combatting corruption.

Following on from the Dialogue,  AFCOE organises National Conversations in participating countries, leading to National Counter-Corruption Summits on resolving corruption based on the annually updated frameworks agreed at the Dialogue.

 

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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICAL TRAINING

Providing highly practical university-accredited courses to professionals through out Africa in how to combat corruption, advance human rights, and improve compliance with the law of armed conflict. Training in integrity, compliance and counter-corruption is provided to the public and private sectors including: Government, Courts and Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Financial Sector, and Professional Services. Practical training in human rights and the law of armed conflict is provided to uniformed services at all levels, including: Armed Forces, Gendarmeries, Law Enforcement Agencies, Private Military Contractors and Private Security Companies).

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RESOURCE OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERTS

AFCOE provides Africa with an independent professional resource:

(1) to improve the rule of law, promote integrity and transparency, and address corruption and AML/CFT issues.  Services include: Asset Recovery, Mediation and Dispute Resolution, Complex Internal and International Investigations, Law Reform and Litigation Drafting, Litigation Support, Monitoring and Verification programs); and

(2) to enhance compliance with human rights and the law of armed conflict.

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“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

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