Monday 24 February 2025 
The president of the High Authority for Transparency, Prevention and Fight against Corruption, Salima Mousserati affirmed, Sunday in Algiers, that the national strategy for transparency, prevention and fight against corruption will be implemented from the ‘next year.
Overseeing a training session on the adoption and adaptation of the South Korean model for evaluating anti-corruption efforts, Ms. Mousserati said that this strategy “will have a positive impact on the achievement of sustainable development based on public policies taking into account the quality and high performance of the national economy, socially equitable and ecologically acceptable”.
According to the official, the strategy is part “of the overall operation of implementing and monitoring procedures for strengthening transparency, integrity and the fight against corruption both at the level of public and private institutions and ‘at the level of society with the association of civil society’.
The Constitution of November 1, 2020 has strengthened the legal and institutional system relating to transparency, the prevention and the fight against corruption through the promotion of the National Body for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption as an advisory institution in the rank of control institutions by giving it broad prerogatives, she recalled.
More explicitly, it reviewed “the missions entrusted to the High Authority, in particular with regard to the collection, centralization and dissemination of any information or recommendations likely to help public administrations or any natural or legal person to prevent or to denounce acts of corruption, in addition to receiving declarations of assets, processing and controlling them”.
Furthermore, Ms. Mousserati affirmed that the organization of the training session was part of the “development of cooperation with the authorities and regional and international organizations competent in the prevention and fight against corruption, the aim being to adopt successful models and best practices able to bring added value”.
To do this, “the High Authority responded favorably to the call from the Public Policy Center of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Seoul in 2020, adopting the anti-corruption assessment tool implemented place by South Korea’s Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission”.
The High Authority “has put in place an action plan, in coordination with the UNDP, providing for three phases for the classification of 6 consecutive operations since October 2021, before the execution phase scheduled for the third quarter of 2023”, said she explained.
The model adopted during this training session makes it possible to “measure the indicators of the objectives of the program of prevention and fight against corruption within public institutions, by adopting a simplified methodology of quantitative and qualitative analysis” and to “implement put in place a system for monitoring and evaluating anti-corruption measures in Algeria,” she said.
The adoption and adaptation of this model to the national organizational and institutional specificity will have a positive impact by facilitating the process of monitoring and implementing the national strategy for transparency, prevention and the fight against corruption and will allow the high authority to better target potential sources of corruption and eliminate them (…), she said.
“This model also encourages public institutions to make voluntary efforts to fight corruption and improve the effectiveness of provisions based on the results of the assessment,” Ms. Mousserati adds.
For her part, the UNDP representative in Algeria, Blerta Aliko expressed “her readiness” to support Algeria in the technical field, to develop know-how, to build capacities and to implement the partnerships that are fall within the framework of the promotion of transparency as well as the prevention and fight against corruption.
Ahmed Achour