The consultancy study written by Thomas Conzelmann for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been published. It carries the title “Lessons learned from other review mechanisms on their operation and transition to a next phase“. The paper reviews the functioning of six selected peer reviews among states and reviews the experiences that they have made with past reforms to the instruments. Examples are a greater transparency of the instruments to the outside world, the adoption of country-specific recommendations, or a better participation of civil society organizations in the peer review.
The study was commissioned in the context of the ongoing discussion on how the Implementation Review Mechanism of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption could be reformed.