The UNCAC Coalition offers technical as well as limited financial support to civil society organisations (CSOs) that want to become involved in and contribute to the UNCAC implementation review process in their respective country.
In particular, the Coalition supports CSOs in:
- producing a parallel civil society report, covering all or selected articles of the second cycle of UNCAC reviews, which deal with chapters II (preventive measures) and V (asset recovery),
- producing a follow-up report on the implementation of the first review cycle,
- making other forms of contributions to the implementation review process.
Find more information on our support to CSOs here.
The Terms of Reference for the UNCAC Review Mechanism call for a review mechanism that is "transparent, efficient, non-intrusive, inclusive and impartial." In paragraph 28 they state that:
The State party under review shall endeavour to prepare its responses to the comprehensive self-assessment checklist through broad consultations at the national level with all relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, individuals and groups outside the public sector.
In paragraph 30 they state that:
States parties are encouraged to facilitate engagement with all relevant national stakeholders in the course of a country visit.
The extent to which governments respond to this encouragement is left to their own discretion, however. This has been the subject of civil society advocacy.
Many civil society organisations have taken advantage of the opportunity offered by the UNCAC review mechanism to produce their own parallel civil society review reports. These reports evaluate the transparency and inclusiveness of the country review process and country compliance with UNCAC standards.
Second (ongoing) UNCAC Review Cycle (2015-2026) covering UNCAC Chapter II (Preventive measures) & Chapter V (Asset Recovery)
See the executive summaries of civil society parallel reports on UNCAC implementation from the second review cycle as part of our written submissions to the UNCAC CoSP9: Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Honduras, Madagascar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe.
Year 1 of the second review cycle (2015 – 2016)
| Burundi | Blog post summary | Original Report in French (October 2023) | Translated Report in English |
| Mexico | Blog post summary | Translated Report in English (December 2022) | Original Report in Spanish |
Year 2 of the second review cycle (2016 – 2017)
| Albania | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (July - republished in August 2023) | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (June 2023) | |
| Nepal | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (March 2023) | |
| Honduras | Blog post summary | Translated Report in English (December 2021) | Original Report in Spanish |
| Bahrain | Full Report in English (November 2021) | ||
| Zimbabwe | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (March 2021) | Translated Report in Shona Report in Ndebele |
| North Macedonia | Original Report in English (May 2019) | ||
| Palestine | Original Report in English (2018) and Updated Original Report in English (2023) |
Year 3 of the second review cycle (2017 – 2018)
Year 4 of the second review cycle (2018-2019)
Year 5 of the second review cycle (2019-2020)
| Chad | Blog post summary | Original Report in French (February 2024) | Translated Report in English |
| Bangladesh | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (October 2023) | |
| Serbia | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (July 2023) | |
| El Salvador | Blog post summary | Original Report in Spanish (February 2023) | Translated Report in English |
| Tunisia | Blog post summary | Original Report in French (December 2022) | Translated Report in English Translated Report in Arabic |
| The Gambia | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (August 2022) | |
| Uzbekistan | Blog post summary | Original Report in English (March 2022) | Translated Report in Russian |
| Paraguay | Blog post summary | Translated Report in English (November 2021) | Original Report in Spanish |
| Madagascar | Blog post summary | Translated Report in English (August 2021) | Original Report in French |
| Ecuador | Blog post summary | Translated Report in English (April 2021) | Original Report in Spanish |
Other parallel reports on the implementation of Chapter II (Preventive measures) and Chapter V (Asset recovery):
- Puerto Rico (December 2023) – Blog post summary – Original Report in Spanish – Translated Report in English
- Kosovo (August 2024) – Blog post summary – Original Report in English – Translated Report in Albanian
First UNCAC Review Cycle (2010-2015) covering UNCAC Chapter III (Criminalization and law enforcement) & Chapter IV (International cooperation)
Year 1 of the first review cycle (2010 – 2011)
| Argentina | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Bangladesh | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Brazil | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Bulgaria | Executive Summary | Full Report | Report in Bulgarian |
| Chile | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Lithuania | Executive Summary | Full Report | Report in Lithuanian |
| Mongolia | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Morocco | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Peru | Executive Summary | Full Report | Report in Spanish |
| Ukraine | Executive Summary | Full Report | Report in Ukrainian |
| USA | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Zambia | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Overview Report | Executive Summary | Full Report | Report in French Report in Spanish |
Year 2 of the first review cycle (2011 – 2012)
| Colombia | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Nicaragua | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Panama | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Papua New Guinea | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Philippines | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Portugal | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Russia | Executive Summary | Full Report in Russian | |
| United Kingdom | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Vietnam | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Zimbabwe | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Uruguay | Executive Summary | ||
| Overview Report | Full Report | Report in French Report in Spanish |
Year 3 of the first review cycle (2012 – 2013)
| Armenia | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Canada | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Hungary | Executive Summary | Full Report | |
| Tunisia | Full Report | Report in Arabic Report in French |
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| Overview Report | Executive Summary | Full Report |
Year 4 of the first review cycle (2013–2014)
| Guatemala | Executive Summary | Full Report |
| Haiti | Full Report | |
| Nepal | Executive Summary | Full Report (Gap Analysis) |
| Turkey | Executive Summary | Full Report |
Year 5 of the first review cycle (2014-2015)
| Poland | Full Report | Report in Polish |