U.S. Anticorruption Efforts in Iraq: Progress Made in Implementing Revised Management Plan

摘要

This is the latest in a series of reports by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) assessing U.S. anticorruption activities in Iraq. SIGIR instituted reviews of these programs in recognition of the significant detrimental effect corruption has on Iraq's economic, social, and political reconstruction. SIGIR has described corruption in Iraq as the 'second insurgency.' Previous SIGIR reports concluded that U.S. efforts in this area lacked a comprehensive plan featuring metrics that tie programs to an overall strategy as well as baselines from which progress can be measured. Moreover, SIGIR found that U.S. anticorruption efforts have gone through periods of high activity and periods when they have languished. In a January 2008 report, SIGIR reported that the U.S. Embassy in Iraq had taken, or planned to take, steps to improve U.S. anticorruption activities as part of a new anticorruption management plan. If those measures were effectively implemented, SIGIR said, they would address all SIGIR recommendations. Our objective for this report was to review U.S. Department of State (DoS) and U.S. Embassy progress in that regard. This report was conducted as SIGIR Project 8013.