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37 -RECOMMENDATION ON BILATERAL AID PROCUREMENT<br />

Recommendati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Development Assistance Committee <strong>on</strong> Anti-<br />

Corrupti<strong>on</strong> Proposals for Bilateral Aid Procurement<br />

Recommendati<strong>on</strong> endorsed by the Development Assistance Committee at its High Level Meeting,<br />

6-7 May 1996<br />

1. DAC Members share a c<strong>on</strong>cern with corrupti<strong>on</strong>:<br />

It undermines good governance.<br />

It wastes scarce resources for development, whether from aid or from other <strong>public</strong> or private<br />

sources, with far-reaching effects throughout the ec<strong>on</strong>omy.<br />

It undermines the credibility <strong>of</strong>, and <strong>public</strong> support for, development co-operati<strong>on</strong> and<br />

devalues the reputati<strong>on</strong> and efforts <strong>of</strong> all who work to support sustainable development.<br />

It compromises open and transparent competiti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> the basis <strong>of</strong> price and quality.<br />

2. The DAC, therefore, firmly endorses the need to combat corrupti<strong>on</strong> through effective<br />

prohibiti<strong>on</strong>, co-ordinated in a multilateral framework to ensure harm<strong>on</strong>ised implementati<strong>on</strong>. Other<br />

meaningful and c<strong>on</strong>crete measures are also required to ensure transparency, accountability and probity in<br />

the use <strong>of</strong> <strong>public</strong> resources in DAC Members' own systems and those <strong>of</strong> partner countries, who<br />

themselves are increasingly c<strong>on</strong>cerned with this problem.<br />

3. In its efforts to curb corrupti<strong>on</strong>, the DAC recognises that opportunities may exist for corrupt<br />

practices in aid-funded procurement. Together with other efforts to deal with corrupti<strong>on</strong>, the DAC hereby<br />

expresses its firm intenti<strong>on</strong> to work to eliminate corrupti<strong>on</strong> in aid procurement.<br />

4. The DAC therefore recommends that Members introduce or require anti-corrupti<strong>on</strong><br />

provisi<strong>on</strong>s governing bilateral aid-funded procurement. This work should be carried out in coordinati<strong>on</strong><br />

with other work being undertaken in the OECD and elsewhere to eliminate corrupti<strong>on</strong>,<br />

and in collaborati<strong>on</strong> with recipient countries. The DAC also recommends that its Members work to<br />

ensure the proper implementati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> their anti-corrupti<strong>on</strong> provisi<strong>on</strong>s and that they draw to the<br />

attenti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the internati<strong>on</strong>al development instituti<strong>on</strong>s to which they bel<strong>on</strong>g, the importance <strong>of</strong><br />

proper implementati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the anti-corrupti<strong>on</strong> provisi<strong>on</strong>s envisaged in their rules <strong>of</strong> operati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

5. The DAC will follow up <strong>on</strong> the effect given to this Recommendati<strong>on</strong> within <strong>on</strong>e year.<br />

6. DAC Members will work closely with development partners to combat corrupti<strong>on</strong> in all<br />

development co-operati<strong>on</strong> efforts.<br />

CONVENTION ON COMBATING BRIBERY OF FOREIGN PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS © OECD 2010

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