The report, which was released by the National Coordination Committee for the Prevention of Corruption, said the eruption of the Covid-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020 posed serious threats to the implementation of the strategy in that year.
Making it even more difficult for the implementation of the strategy to move ahead was the fact that some of the officials responsible for its implementation had contracted the new disease, the report said.
It added that the committee overcame this problem on the road to moving ahead with the implementation of the strategy by depending on modern communication technologies in holding meetings between its members.
The committee was formed by the Administrative Supervisory Authority in 2019 with the aim of enforcing the strategy, which came into effect in 2019.
The committee, launched on December 9 of that year on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day, contains members representing a wide range of state agencies.
These members include the minister of justice, the minister of local development, the minister of planning and the minister of social solidarity.
The committee also contains representatives of the Administrative Prosecution, the Administrative Supervisory Authority, the Ministry of the Interior, the Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Agency.
It works to oversee the actual implementation of international and regional anti-corruption treaties. The committee is also responsible for formulating a national strategy for the fight against corruption inside state institutions.
It said in its report that it succeeded in implementing 23.36 per cent of the goals of the strategy in 2020.
This compounds 36.6 per cent of the goals of the strategy that was implemented during 2019, the committee said in its report.
It added that these goals included a series of measures, such as the enforcement of anti-corruption regulations in state institutions and administrative offices around the nation.
The measures taken within the implementation of the strategy during 2020 also included offering training to tens of thousands of administrative workers in anti-corruption regulations, the report said.
It noted that among the goals implemented in the same year was the application of strict supervisory systems inside the different departments of the administrative apparatus nationwide.
The National Anti-Corruption Strategy is high in the priority list of the administration of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi who paid special attention to anti-corruption measures since coming to power in mid-2014.
The Egyptian leader demonstrated zero tolerance to corruption on numerous occasions, highlighting the importance of eradicating corrupt practices within government offices for the attraction of investments and improving Egypt’s ranking in international rankings on transparency.
Several senior government officials, including governors, ministers and judges, were also put in jail on corruption charges in the past few years, proving Sisi’s unwavering resolve to fight corruption around his country.
The National Coordination Committee for the Prevention of Corruption said in its report that other goals of the strategy that were implemented during 2020 included updating the databases of the administrative apparatus, modernising the infrastructure of the apparatus, creating a system for rewarding outstanding administrative workers, modernising the salaries system, formulating mechanisms to ensure that the personal interests of administrative workers would not impede the achievement of the goals of the strategy, assessing the satisfaction of ordinary
people with the performance of the administrative apparatus and finally connecting all administrative departments with each other electronically.
The report contains a detailed section for each of these goals. Each of the sections mentions the efforts the committee made to ensure the implementation of the different goals.
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