Civil Society and Social Actors - National Hubs Anticorruption
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In April 2019, the Summits of the Americas Secretariat
established 34
National Anti-corruption Hubs of the Americas
within the framework of the follow-up and
implementation of the
VIII Summit of the Americas.
As part of its
efforts to foster and strengthen civil society and social actor participation in
the Summits Process, the Summits Secretariat is promoting the establishment of
National Hubs as a mechanism that seeks to highlight the work that civil society
and social actors have been undertaking in the different topics of the Summits
Process, in particular the
prevention and the fight against corruption and substantiate
the Lima Commitment mandates.
Objective of the National Hubs
·
To spotlight the work of civil society and social actors in preventing and
fighting corruption, pursuant to the Lima Commitment mandates.
·
Facilitate the exchange of good practices and the strengthening of civil society
and social actors’ capacities that are members of the hubs, for their active
participation, monitoring and advocacy in relation to the Lima Commitment.
·
Promote dialogue with government authorities, representatives of international,
regional, and Inter-American organizations that are part of the Joint Summit
Working Group (JSWG), among others.
·
Facilitate access to specialized information on various Summit Process-related
issues (i.e., corruption), through webinars, online workshops, forums, etc.
Participation
Criteria
Civil Society and Social Actors that are
interested to become part of the National Hubs must meet a set of criteria to
ensure their participation.
·
Demonstrated
experience in the area of prevention and the fight against corruption, including
thematic areas such as transparency, citizen participation, accountability,
integrity in the public and / or private sector, among others.
·
Experience of
interlocution, advocacy or assistance at the local, national or regional level.
·
Work in the following participating
countries of the Summits Process: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados,
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,
United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
To facilitate the national hub’s work, the
Summits Secretariat has created
virtual forums
for each national hub, through the
Summits Virtual Community.
These virtual forums are the official communication channel for each hub.
If you want to learn more about the hubs,
please visit the
Hubs website,
which contains the working methodology, the members of each national hub, as
well as the timeline of activities that will be carried out with the hubs during
2020.
In addition, on June 5 a third call was
launched to participate in the Hubs for those organizations or social actors
that were not able to apply in 2019. The call is published on the Hubs website,
as well as through the Summits Secretariat social media outlets
.
Each hub’s work and contributions are
coordinated by a civil society or social actor representative, who was elected
by the hub members. The coordinator is the point of contact with the Summits
Secretariat.
There are around 200 civil society
representatives and social actors that are members of 34 National Hubs in the
Hemisphere.
Transparency International and its different national chapters,
Accountability Lab (Mexico),
Asociación Civil
Transparencia (Peru),
Fundación Directorio
Legislativo (Argentina),
Espacio Público
(Chile), Integrity Group Barbados Inc.,
Grenada Human Rights Organisation (GHRO) Inc,
Logox Conocimiento e Inteligencia (Colombia), Asociación para una Sociedad más
Justa (Honduras),
Abriendo Datos Costa
Rica, are among the wide range of
CSOs and social actors participating in the National Hubs.