APA-Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) Côte d’Ivoire has made significant efforts in recent years to combat corruption by setting up institutions to monitor government action.
According to the 2023 report by the NGO Transparency International, Côte d’Ivoire has gained three points and 12 places in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in one year, giving it a score of 40/100 and a ranking of 87th out of 180 countries in 2023, compared with 37/100 in 2022 and a ranking of 99th/180th.
This result obtained by Côte d’Ivoire is due to the anti-corruption instruments and bodies implemented in the public sector, as well as the legal and institutional reforms and actions taken to denounce and punish graft.
In legal and institutional terms, the state has set up an Economic and Financial Criminal Division, the Agency for the Recovery and Management of Criminal Assets, and platforms for reporting and denouncing acts of
corruption (Spacia and Signalis).
Côte d’Ivoire has also passed a law on the declaration of assets by persons subject to the law, opening the way for legal proceedings and administrative sanctions against public officials and senior executives found guilty of corruption.
Despite this achievement, Transparency International encourages Côte d’Ivoire to continue its efforts to meet the challenges it still faces in the fight against corruption, a scourge that inhibits and even hinders the proper functioning of institutions.
The High Authority for Good Governance (HABG) has pledged to mobilise all resources to fight corruption and related offences so as to enable Côte d’Ivoire to achieve a CPI score of 50/100 by 2026, a projected gain of three points per year.
This institution, which is responsible for promoting good governance, plans to draw up a 2024-2026 strategic plan and to implement a support programme for the operationalisation of the national anti-corruption
strategy with other entities.
It also intends to help strengthen the legal and regulatory framework for declaring the assets of persons subject to the law, in order to combat illicit enrichment and money laundering.
The HABG also plans to set up the Regional Academy for Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption to build the capacity of players in the public and private sectors and in civil society, with a view to preventing and combating this scourge.
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