At the invitation of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), Austria, an officer from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bhutan is currently attending the Second Expert Meeting on Measuring the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACA), held from 27-29 August 2025 in Laxenburg, Austria.
The meeting brought together more than 60 anti-corruption experts, academics, and practitioners from 39 countries, along with representatives of international organizations such as the UNDP, the World Bank, and Transparency International, to review the IACA’s draft methodology for assessing the ACA effectiveness. The ACC contributed with a short presentation on its institutional status and shared feedback on data collection processes and associated challenges. Discussions further focused on performance indicators across prevention, education, investigation, prosecution, enforcement, and asset recovery functions, as well as broader aspects of organizational development.
The meeting fostered constructive dialogue and generated recommendations to strengthen the overall analysis and findings, ensuring their relevance for enhancing the institutional capacity of the ACAs. The first Expert Meeting on this subject was held in May 2025, and the final methodology will be presented at the Second Global Conference on Harnessing Data to Improve Corruption Measurement, scheduled for December 2025 in New York.
