Support to EFCC and the Nigerian Judiciary Project Status and The Road Ahead

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1 Support to EFCC and the Nigerian Judiciary Project Status and The Road Ahead Presentation UNODC Project Team NGA/S08

2 Project Overall Objective To enhance good governance and financial accountability, and to reduce the incidence of fraud, waste and corruption in Nigeria through support to the EFCC and the Judiciary Main Project Components: EFCC operational and institutional capacity building Sustainable IT solutions to support operations and administration of EFCC/NFIU/TRI Policy Support, Advocacy and Outreach EFCC raid in an internet café Judicial integrity and capacity programme

3 Strengthening Operational and Institutional Capacity of the EFCC Training and Building Training Capacity Training of top-level management on strategic planning and policy development Specialized Training (Forensics, Management, Financial Investigations) Strengthening the TRI (AC Training Advisor) Building Forensic Capacity Forensic Laboratory (Fingerprint, Docs, Photography, Computer) Forensic training and mentoring Managerial and Administrative Support HR Assessment Procurement Operational Equipment Security Investigative Tools Transport

4 Sustainable IT Solutions to Support EFCC Operations and Administration IT infrastructure covering HQ and selected FOs 500 Desktop Computers 70 Servers Video-conferencing facilities Basic administrative and workflow management tools Intranet, Internet, Official Website and Workflow management applications Specialized Software Applications Comprehensive case-management system gocase Financial intelligence gathering and analysis software - goaml

5 Policy Support, Advocacy and Outreach Research and Analysis Business Crime and Corruption Survey Public Perception Survey of Anti-Corruption Agencies Self Assessment Checklist Policy and Legislative Support Non-Conviction Based Forfeiture Bill National Anti-Corruption Action Plan Outreach and Awareness Raising AC Days Observance and related events Involving citizens actively against corruption (ANCOR) Private-Public Sector Partnership against Corruption

6 Strengthening Judicial Integrity & Capacity Research and Analysis Quantitative multi-stakeholder base-line and progress assessment Policy Support 10 State-level Action Plans and related advocacy, policy advise and monitoring support Implementation Support Access to Justice Town hall meetings, ADR, Court user information materials and mechanisms Timeliness and Quality JRC and E-court recording Capacity Building of the NJI Integrity and Accountability Dissemination of CoC & Professional Ethics Training Public Complaints Committees and PC Software Performance Evaluation System

7 Operational Results: petitions received 300+ convictions 300 Million $ + recovered Removal of Nigeria from the list of Non Cooperating Countries and Territories (NCCTs) FATF ended formal monitoring of Nigeria s compliance with FATF 40+9 recommendations NFIU was admitted to the Egmont Group

8 Awareness of EFCC: (BCCS 2006/07) 98% of businesses were aware of EFCC 70% approval rate TI Corruption Perception Index: /159 (1.9 on scale 1-10) /180 (2.7) Government Support: ,7 Million $ ,3 Million $ ,5 Million $ ,2 Million $

9 ACCESS TO JUSTICE Average number of months prisoners awaiting trial spent in remand reduced from 30 months (2002) to less than 12 months (2007) Prisoners awareness of bail has increased from 43% (2002) to 68% (2007) Prisoners access to legal services increased from 38% (2002) to 56% (2007) Prisoners in remand benefiting from providing pro bono services increased from 1,4% (2002) to 11,4 %

10 TIMELINESS AND QUALITY OF JUSTICE DELIVERY No. of months that it takes the courts to resolve the case reduced from 27 months (2002) to 12,2 months (2007) No. of times court users had already come to the court by the time of the interview to attend to their case reduced from 7.7 times (2002) to 2.6 times (2007) In 2002, 67% of the court users perceived the courts to be never or seldom quick, in 2007, only 30% % of judicial officers considering record-keeping (very) efficient has increased from 44% (2002) to 87% (2007) Access to basic IT infrastructure for judicial officers has increased from 9% (2002) to 28% (2007)

11 INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY Lawyers perceiving judicial decisions being influenced by politics reduced from 52% (2002) to 24% (2007) Judges claiming to be aware of an judicial appointments being influenced by political considerations (rather than merit) during the last 12 months reduced from 19,2% (2002) to 8% (2007) Court users agreeing or completely agreeing with the statement: The justice system works only for the rich and powerful reduced from 38% (2002) to 23% (2007)

12 INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY Lawyers perceiving judicial decisions being influenced by politics reduced from 52% (2002) to 24% (2007) Judges claiming to be aware of an judicial appointments being influenced by political considerations (rather than merit) during the last 12 months reduced from 19,2% (2002) to 8% (2007) Court users agreeing or completely agreeing with the statement: The justice system works only for the rich and powerful reduced from 38% (2002) to 23% (2007)

13 INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY Lawyers claiming to having been requested for a bribe during the last 12 months reduced from 77% (2002) to 16% (2007) Court Users claiming to having been requested for a bribe during the last 12 months reduced from 43% (2002) to 2% (2007) Judges claiming to be aware of court users having given a bribe to a court staff reduced from 17% (2002) to 3% (2007) Judicial officers being evaluated at least once a year has increased from 61% (2002) 91% (2007) and judicial officers who never had been evaluated during their entire career reduced from 32 % (2002) to 3% (2007)

14 PUBLIC TRUST Court users stating that they had not used the courts during the last two years despite a need to do so reduced from 42% (2002) to 36% (2007) Court users stating that they would use the courts again based on their experience increased from 58% (2002) to 69% (2007)

15 Thank you very much for your attention This project is funded by the European Union