US Embassy Supports Activities of the KS Anti-Corruption Office

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - Representatives of the US Embassy in BiH, political advisors Courtney Kline and Dragana Gluhović, and INL program coordinator Lejla Begtašević Rudalija visited the Office for the Fight against Corruption of Sarajevo Canton today.

In a conversation with the Head of the Office, Erduan Kafedžić, they emphasized the support that the US Embassy provides to the work of this Office, i.e., its activities undertaken so far in the field of prevention and fight against corruption, the KS Press Service announced.

Head Kafedžić thanked the American Embassy for their support and reminded of the concept of current operations and future planned preventive anti-corruption processes that this Office and the Anti-Corruption Team are successfully implementing in the entire cantonal public sector.

There are four basic elements of a strategic response to the challenges posed by corruption: prevention, i.e., prevention and suppression of corruption, raising awareness of its harmfulness, and cooperation with civil society and coordination of activities.

By applying them, the Office has achieved a number of significant results in its work so far in the prevention and suppression of corruption. As results of the Office's work to date, Kafedžić highlighted the establishment of significant databases, namely: the Register of Appointed Persons of Sarajevo Canton – ONLINE, the Register of Employees in the Public Sector of KS – ONLINE, the Database of Public Procurement of Sarajevo Canton – ONLINE, the Register of Corruption Reports, the Register of Risks, the Register of Regulations, the Register of Risky Processes, the Database of Contact Persons from KS Institutions, the Database of Various Analyses, the Register of Associations registered in KS, Data and records related to the establishment of a quality system in KS, Records of audits of KS institutions carried out by the Audit Office of Institutions in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as actions taken on given recommendations, which will be an integral part of the software solution "Anti-CorrupiKS", created by the Office and to which special attention will be paid in future operations.

He also announced the creation of a Register of Transfers, Incentives, and State Aid, a Register of Financing/Co-financing of Programs and Projects of Non-Profit Organizations and Associations of Citizens from the KS Budget, and monitoring the effective use of these funds, Registers of Concessions under the jurisdiction of KS, Register of Assets Managed by and under the Jurisdiction of KS, and Register of Inspection Supervision over Institutions.

Head Kafedžić informed his guests that this Office and its Team have the full expert support of the KS Government and the Ministry of Justice and Administration, especially when it comes to the implementation of anti-corruption software. In this regard, the Office received the Government's consent to direct part of its budget funds towards the procurement and installation of the aforementioned multimodal software, for which concrete support from the OSCE Mission in BiH has been highlighted and announced on several occasions.