National Coordinating Committee for Preventing and Combating. Corruption (NCCPCC) organized a special event under the

theme of “National Anti-Corruption Strategy: best practices and challenges”. The event was attended by Minister Hasan

Abdel Shafi Ahmed, Chairman of the Administrative Authority and the President of the Ninth Session of Conference of the

States Party, Mr. Ahmed Said Khalil, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Money-Laundering and Terrorist

Financing Unit, as well as a number of Egyptian and International officials. The event aimed to showcase the Egypt’s commitment

to implementing the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Corruption through adopting a diversity

of institutional and legislative frameworks in accordance with Article 5 thereof regarding developing and implementing or

maintaining effective, coordinated anti-corruption policies since the National Anti-Corruption Strategy the general framework

for combating corruption in Egypt. was Egypt released the first version of the Strategy 2014- 2018 and the second

version 2019- 2023. In the presence of members of the Technical Secretariat of the National Coordinating Committee, 

representatives of the Administrative Control Authority, the Ministry of Justice and the President of the General Federation of 

NGOs, Egypt’s experience in preventing and combating corruption and the progress

in implementing the operational plan of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2019-2022 was presented during the event.

Some of the best practices achieved for each of the Strategy’s nine goals were reviewed, which could be adopted by any of

the States Parties. Mr. Ahmed Nur, Under-Secretary of the Administrative Control Authority, moderator of the event and

members of the Technical Secretariat of the National Coordinating Committee, presented the methodology for the work of

the National Strategy and highlighted the objectives achieved in a number of areas. They included “developing an efficient

and effective administrative body, providing high-quality public services, implementing transparency and integrity mechanisms

in government units, supporting law enforcement agencies to prevent and combat corruption, increasing community

awareness of the importance of preventing and combating corruption, activating international and regional cooperation

in preventing and combating corruption.” Judge Mahmoud Badran of the Egyptian Ministry of Justice 

also highlighted the most prominent developments of the legislative structure in support of combating corruption and

the modernization of judicial procedures in order to achieve speedy justice. 

The efforts of the Administrative Control Authority in launching community awareness campaigns against the dangers of

corruption, the latest of which was the campaign entitled “Ya Tara Min Al-Kasban” or “ Who is the winner”, which is aired in

the conference rooms, as well as the preparation of a national indicator to identify and combat corruption.

Dr. Talat Abdel Qawi, President of the General Federation of NGOs, also presented the best practices obtained from Goal 9

concerning the participation of civil society organizations and the private sector in preventing and combating corruption.