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.

Civil society review reports

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 (2015-2024)

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)

Year 2 of the second review cycle (2016 – 2017)

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)

Year 3 of the second review cycle (2017 – 2018)

Democratic Republic of the Congo	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (March 2022)	Original Report in French (March 2022)
Liberia	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (March 2022)
Togo	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (March 2022)	Original Report in French (March 2022)
Uganda	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (December 2021)
Cambodia	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (November 2021)	Translated Report in Khmer (forthcoming)
Ghana	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (November 2021)
Argentina	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (August 2021)	Original Report in Spanish
Benin	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (May 2021)	Original Report in French
Armenia	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (March 2021)	Original Report in Armenian
United Kingdom		Original Report in English (June 2018)
Moldova		Original Report in English

Year 4 of the second review cycle (2018-2019)

Brazil	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (September 2022)	Translated Report in Portuguese
Yemen	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (August 2022)	Original Report in Arabic
Colombia	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (January 2022)	Original Report in Spanish
Pakistan	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (November 2021)
Papua New Guinea	Blog post summary	Original Report in English (July 2021)
Costa Rica	Blog post summary	Translated Report in English (June 2021)	Original Report in Spanish

Year 5 of the second review cycle (2019-2020)

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

First UNCAC Review Cycle (2010-2015)

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
Overview Report	Executive Summary	Full Report