Second Ancorage-Net Meeting: Empowering Anti-Corruption Agencies: Defying Institutional Failure and Strengthening Preventive and Repressive Capacities

This workshop is meant to be a forum open to both academics and practitioners in the field of anti-corruption/fraud in Europe and abroad, where first-hand experiences and knowledge of the role, powers and activities of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) can be exchanged with a view to further integrated initiatives and policy research. The event is meant to assess ways of empowering ACAs based on a three-pronged strategy:

• to promote the idea that institutional empowerment can be achieved through successful statutory reforms, sound management and agenda-setting strategies, and inter-institutional coalition-building;
• to discuss different ways of strengthening ACAs’ repressive capacity by closing the sophistication gap, devising and managing successful systems of complaints, conducting regular risk assessments, and building lasting and reliable intersectoral cooperation (coalition building);
• to assist ACAs building a preventive capacity.