Partners for Transparency issued its seventeenth report in the Corruption Status Book series, through which the procedural and legislative developments and statements related to combating corruption are monitored and analyzed, as well as monitoring and analyzing corruption incidents that have been revealed or published through various media outlets, as the report covers November 2016.

Dr. Walaa Gad Al-Karim, Director General of Partners for Transparency, says: The International Anti-Corruption Day comes this year after nearly a year has passed since the election of the Egyptian Parliament and two months have passed since its second session, yet legislative initiatives to combat corruption are still absent, pointing out that The month of November 2016 witnessed a split between parliamentarians regarding the need for an independent national authority to fight corruption, a proposal made by the People's Representative, Dr. Anisa Hassouna, and met with objections by some representatives, which is considered a failure to fulfill Egypt's obligations under the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Regarding the incidents that it witnessed, the Partners for Transparency report revealed that the month of November witnessed 72 corruption incidents, more than a quarter of which were in the Ministry of Supply (20 incidents), followed by the Ministry of Health with 7 incidents of corruption, then the localities and agriculture sectors with 5 incidents for each, followed by a sector Communications, Information Technology and Interior, with 4 incidents of corruption for each of them.

With regard to the judicial position, the incidents under investigation came first among corruption incidents during the month of November 2016, where the largest percentage was recorded at 82%, followed by the incidents under trial with a score of 8%, then the uninvestigated facts came with a score of 6%, then the incidents that were judged in rank The latter increased by 4% of total facts.

Geographically, Cairo governorate still got the largest share of corruption incidents during November 2016 with a percentage of 32%, followed by Giza governorate with 131 TP1T, then Gharbia with a percentage of 8%.

Dr. Walaa Gad Al-Karim said: The Partners Foundation for Transparency reiterates on the International Anti-Corruption Day that the legislative and procedural environment in Egypt is still not sufficiently helpful in confronting corruption and the good initiatives and efforts taken by some supervisory authorities, such as administrative and parliamentary oversight, need support from Parliament and the government, through an integrated package of legislation and executive procedures, to fill the void and loopholes from which the corrupt, continue to waste public money, and miss the state's economic and social development opportunities.

The Director of Partners for Transparency indicated that the Foundation intends within days to hold an expert meeting between parliamentarians, government officials and anti-corruption experts in civil society. To lay the first block of an agenda for anti-corruption legislative priorities