Sead Lisak, director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of Combat against Corruption of BiH has visited the Public Administration Reform Coordinator’s Office today and talked with the National PAR Coordinator, Semiha Borovac on future joint activities in a sense of the implementation of action plans for realization of the PAR Strategy in BiH and the Combat against Corruption Strategy.
Borovac has informed the director of the Agency that the PARCO has done and the government at all four administration levels adopted the Revised Action plan 1, which, besides other, represents a modernization of public sector in BiH as well. Modernization of public sector is one of the activities of the Action plan of the Combat against Corruption Strategy as well, for whose implementation obliged has been the PARCO.
Also, Public Administration Reform Coordinator in BiH has presented the project "Capacity Building for Combat against Corruption in Structures of Civil Service in BiH" and has pointed out that after the Joint Management Board of the PAR Fund’s approval the project will be financed by donor funds. This project is common for all four administration levels (BiH, the Federation of BiH, the Republic of Srpska and the Brčko District of BiH), and the activities to be implemented, besides other, are the trainings of civil servants in combat against corruption as well as the implementation of public campaign on this topic. One of the partners in implementation of this project will be the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of Combat against Corruption as well. Anyways, some of the new measures and activities in the Revised Action plan 1 relate precisely to strengthening ethic codes in civil service and the ethics of civil servants itself.
The director of the Agency has expressed his satisfaction by the establishment of cooperation with the PARCO. He has said that the Agency is still waiting on the adoption of the Rulebook on Internal Organization as well as on the material-technical equipment and employing personnel in the Agency. Since the PARCO and the Agency both have a coordination of government bodies as their competence, Lisak believes that the experiences that PARCO already has in that field will be of assistance to the Agency, which has not built such mechanisms yet.