UNCAC CoSP11

The 11th Session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP11) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) will take place from 14 to 19 December 2025 in Doha, Qatar.

Venue: the exact venue is yet to be confirmed.

Important: The 14th of December will be used as a preparatory and coordination day for civil society, we thus encourage civil society representatives to plan to arrive early – this preparation is essential for observers to be able to navigate the CoSP.

The official conference starts on the 15th of December.

Call for applications for NGO’s is open!

The call from UNODC for non-ECOSOC NGOs to apply for CoSP11 participation has been published! The firm deadline to send your NGO’s application is 27 June 2025.

NGOs that are not in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) are invited to express their interest to participate in the Conference by filling out the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/mY0ijWCXbu
Applications should be sent directly to UNODC, NOT to the UNCAC Coalition.
To complete the application process, please submit a letter that contains the letterhead of your organization, signed by the head of the organization, and indicating that your organization wishes to be accredited to CoSP11 UNCAC as an observer. To do so, kindly upload the letter to WeTransfer (https://wetransfer.com/) in PDF format. No registration on WeTransfer is required. Please use unodc-ngounit@un.org as the recipient, and then copy/paste the generated link in the last question of the form: https://forms.office.com/e/mY0ijWCXbu
NGOs with ECOSOC status will receive a separate communication on their participation in the Conference closer to the date directly from UNODC and are invited to contact UNODC: uncac@un.org should questions arise.
The application is open for organizations, NOT for individuals.
Relevant NGOs that are considering attending the CoSP should apply, even if not yet sure regarding their actual participation.
The list of relevant NGOs that applied will be reviewed by the UNCAC States parties, who have the right to object to an NGO’s participation. (Anonymously, and without stating the reason for the objection). However, an objection can be removed before the CoSP or overturned by the States parties during the CoSP.
NGOs will then receive an official invitation from UNODC with instructions on how to register for the Conference

2nd preparatory briefing for civil society

Join us for the UNCAC Coalition’s next briefing on the CoSP, which will take place on 14 May from 2-3 pm and is open to civil society colleagues. Please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cXYyoncATBW8W3g8rLbwzA

1st preparatory briefing for civil society

Below are the recording (without Q&A) and the slides from the first briefing on the UNCAC CoSP11 we provided to the civil society community on 5 February 2025:

1st CoSP 11 briefing for CSOs – 5 February 2025 Download

What to expect

See our guide to attending the UNCAC CoSP.
On this page find details on civil society engagement at the CoSP10 in Atlanta in December 2023, which was the biggest Conference so far, with over 2,000 anti-corruption practitioners and delegates from 160 countries, including more than 400 civil society representatives attending in-person.

We anticipate that the future of the UNCAC’s Implementation Review Mechanism will be a key focus of the Conference. Other substantive anti-corruption focus issues are yet to emerge.

Registration

We anticipate that the application for NGOs without ECOSOC consultative status to observe the CoSP will be open around June-July 2025. UNODC, as the UNCAC Secretariat, will manage the application process.

Rights of observers

Approved observers have a range of rights, including to submit proposals for side events (likely in August/September 2025), submit written submissions, attend the Plenary and side events, and to speak in the plenary.