Project Title: 
Combatting Corruption in Jamaica

Project Overview:
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 2016 - 2019

Contractor(s)/Grantee(s):
National Integrity Action (NIA)

Objective:
This project seeks to challenge corrupt practices nationally, and foster public support for action against corruption.

Program Targets:
The project is expected to have an impact on the nation’s capacity and ability to effectively control instances of and attitudes toward corruption in general, and political corruption in particular. Training is being provided to government and civil society partners in order to increase awareness and advocacy on the part of key stakeholders. Public demand for more effective action against corruption is being developed through awareness campaigns.

Program Status:
NIA has undertaken a series of activities under the Combatting Corruption in Jamaica Project. Activities include:

• Anti-Corruption and Financial Crime investigators’ Training Seminar under the theme “Following the Money – Combatting Financial Crime and Corruption.”  Fifty-six (56) persons from various law enforcement and financial investigative agencies attended the training seminar.
• 2nd Annual Prosecutors’ Training Seminar titled “Towards Sound Investigation, Prosecution and Conviction.” Some 48 members (15 males and 33 females) of the national Clerk of Courts cohort participated in the training seminar.
• 2nd Annual Training Seminar for Resident Magistrates. Forty (40) Resident Magistrates participated. This number is significant given that the total cohort consists of less than 60 members.
• Sensitization Seminar on Corruption for Supreme Court Judges and Judges of the Court of Appeal.  Five (5) Court of Appeal Judges, Fifteen (15) Supreme Court Judges and Six (6) judicial officers participated.
• NIA is driving the advocacy for the passage of two key pieces of legislation: the Campaign Finance Reform legislation, and legislation to implement a Single Anti-Corruption Agency, with prosecutorial powers.
• NIA in collaboration with the Social Development Commission (SDC), National Association of Parish Development Committees (NAPDEC) and the Jamaica Civil Society Coalition (JCSC) organized several public fora across the island.