Chairman of the Integrity Commission: We are determined to draw up a six-year strategy to combat cor

The Chairman of the Federal Integrity Commission, Judge Haider Hanoun, confirmed on Thursday the determination to draw up a six-year strategy to combat corruption, while stressing the importance of adopting national strategies to combat this scourge within the preventive approach and the principle of participation in combating corruption.

Hanoun said, during his speech at the ceremony announcing the first report on implementing the strategy to combat corruption in the public sector, held by the Kurdistan Integrity Commission in Erbil and reported by the Integrity Commission in a statement, seen by "Al-Eqtisad News", about "the national strategy for integrity and combating corruption and its inclusion of economic, industrial, agricultural, scientific, humanitarian, military and health plans", stressing "the necessity of its efforts to preserve the country's wealth and needs and cover those needs, in addition to creating human energies from its citizens capable of leading the helm of affairs in the future." 

Hanoun urged, "adopting mechanisms to raise the level of integrity in the performance of institutions and create a competitive environment among them on the one hand, and among their employees on the other hand; to determine the most honest institution and the institution that best provides services to citizens," noting that "the Federal Integrity Commission adopted such visions in launching the National Strategy for Integrity and Anti-Corruption for the years (2021-2024), as well as the Integrity Commission in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq in launching the Anti-Corruption Strategy in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq for the years (2021-2025)."

He pointed out that "the Commission is in the process of preparing a new national strategy for integrity and anti-corruption for the next six years for the years (2025-2023) that relies in preparation and implementation on cooperation with the three legislative, executive and judicial authorities and with the Federal Board of Financial Supervision and the Integrity Commission in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq on the one hand, in addition to partnership with the private sector, civil society and investigative journalism." 

He added, "The strategy, which is currently being prepared, will take a scientific approach using advanced technology in its implementation, and will seek to integrate influential categories of stakeholders such as women, youth, scientific and professional competencies, and give them distinguished roles in it; with the aim of raising levels of integrity in the public and private sectors, helping institutions correct errors on their own, motivating them to make continuous improvements in their performance, accelerating the pace towards the digital transformation of good governance, and enhancing all of this with regional and international cooperation." 

He pointed out that "the Federal Integrity Commission and the Integrity Commission in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq are determined to put the final touches on signing a joint coordination memorandum between them in implementation of the provisions of Articles (11 / Fourth) and (16 / Fourth) of the Integrity and Illicit Gains Commission Law No. (30) of 2011 (amended), and to coordinate efforts in the field of combating corruption within the Republic of Iraq," noting that "training workshops for the teams implementing the National Strategy for Integrity and Combating Corruption in the Commission, ministries and entities not affiliated with the Federal Ministry will soon be held at the headquarters of the Integrity Commission in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq in Erbil, and that these workshops will include the strategy implementation teams in the Kurdistan Region."