The preventive measures covered in UNCAC include

Public sector ethics and procedures

• requiring recruitment and promotion based on efficiency, transparency and objective criteria such as merit, equity and aptitude (UNCAC Art. 7)
• requiring codes or standards of conduct for the correct, honorable and proper performance of public functions (UNCAC Art. 8)
• imposing restrictions on the employment of public officials by the private sector after their resignation or retirement (UNCAC Art. 12)

Public procurement

• requiring systems based on transparency, competition and objective criteria (UNCAC Art. 9)

Public sector finance

• requiring appropriate measures to promote transparency and accountability with respect to, inter alia, procedures for the adoption of the national budget, timely reporting on revenue and expenditure, accounting and auditing standards and related oversight, effective and efficient systems of risk management and internal control (UNCAC Art 9)

Public reporting, access to information, whistleblower protection

• requiring that members of the public be allowed to obtain information on the organization, functioning and decision-making processes of its public administration (UNCAC Art. 10)
• requiring that the public has effective access to information (OAS Convention UNCAC Art. 13)
• requiring protection of witnesses, reporting persons and victims of corruption (UNCAC Arts. 32 and 33)

Public ducation

• requiring public information activities and public education programmes, including school and university curricula (UNCAC Art. 13)

Private sector standards, including accounting and auditing standards

• requiring prohibition of off-the books accounts and transactions, of recording non-existent expenditure, of incorrect identification of liabilities, of use of false documents and intentional destruction of bookkeeping documents earlier than foreseen by law (UNCAC Art.12)
• preventing conflicts of interest by imposing restrictions…on the professional activities of former public officials or on the employment of public officials by the private sector after their resignation or retirement. (UNCAC Art. 12)
• no tax deductibility of bribers of either foreign or national officials (UNCAC Art 12)