Jakarta Expert Meeting Identifies Measures to Prevent Corruption in Tsunami Assistance
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (11 April 2005) - An expert meeting on Corruption Prevention in Tsunami Relief concluded on Friday with participants recommending a set of principles to prevent corruption in delivering relief and reconstruction assistance to tsunami afflicted areas.
The meeting, organized jointly by ADB, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific, and Transparency International, was hosted by the Government of Indonesia on 7 and 8 April in
Participants stressed that the meeting was only the start of a long-term process on fighting corruption and promoting transparency in disaster relief operations beyond the post-tsunami reconstruction efforts. They thus called upon the three organising institutions to initiate a policy on managing corruption in humanitarian relief that provide applicable solutions for use in disaster affected communities.
Read the full joint news release.
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