Libya Participates in Regional Meeting on Enhancing Business Integrity and Public-Private Partnership in the Middle East and North Africa

Cairo, January 17, 2025 (LANA) - Libya participated in the regional meeting hosted by the National Academy for Combating Corruption in Cairo on "Enhancing Business Integrity and Partnership between the Public and Private Sectors in the Middle East and North Africa Region".

The Libyan delegation participating in the meeting, which was organized in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the League of Arab States and the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission, was headed by the Advisor to the Chairman of the Administrative Control Authority and Director of the Office for Monitoring Anti-Money Laundering and Recovering Smuggled and Looted Assets, "Ibrahim Ali".

During the meeting, ways to support the role of the private sector in the field of combating corruption and improving the business environment in partnership with the government sector were discussed.

The meeting was also attended by the Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the Middle East and North Africa, "Christina Albertin", Minister Plenipotentiary "Maha Bakhit", Director of the Legal Affairs Department at the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, and the Head of the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission, "Rasha Amarneh", in addition to representatives of oversight and anti-corruption bodies, international and regional organizations, relevant experts and leaders of the National Academy for Combating Corruption.

The meeting reviewed a number of discussion panels on the importance of developing public-private sector partnerships to improve the business environment, the main incentives to enhance the role of the private sector in combating corruption, and how to benefit from corruption risk assessment tools.

The common challenges and ways to overcome them were also highlighted, with a presentation of the most prominent international initiatives to improve the investment climate by adopting effective governance systems and enhancing transparency and accountability.

The meeting resulted in a number of outcomes, including an agreement to support the partnership between the public and private sectors in terms of enhancing integrity standards and combating corruption, expanding the scope of electronic services and reducing paper transactions, activating international cooperation frameworks and exchanging expertise to enhance technical support between the relevant authorities and international institutions, and enhancing periodic dialogue between the agencies concerned with combating corruption and private sector institutions.

The attendees also called for encouraging the establishment of investment support units in anti-corruption agencies to examine and resolve investor complaints and facilitate ways to remove obstacles facing investment projects, while supporting scientific research in the field of governance and combating corruption in the public and private sectors.

This meeting comes in light of the fifth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Arab Convention against Corruption and aims to exchange visions and draw a joint roadmap towards improving the business environment to achieve economic and social development in our societies.

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