MEC Monitoring of Ministry Anti-Corruption plans: Ministry of Haj and Religious Affairs

According to a letter MoHRA sent to the Ministry of Finance, the Administrative and Finance Deputy Minister of MoHRA was mandated to establish a committee to monitor the implementation of the ACP and gather reports accordingly. In the letter under the category of Framework of Implementing the ACP, it is clarified that the Administrative and Finance Deputy Minister shall create and lead a committee which is responsible to continuously monitor the implementation of ACP. However, in the letter it is not specified when the committee shall be created, but it is added that the Plan and Policy Department is obliged to monitor implementation of the plan across the Ministry and provide a report to the designated committee. While MEC requested this report, but received no reply from MoHRA. This Review has revealed that the MoHRA does not have complete lists of its properties. Besides, it was discovered that the MoHRA has some serious problems in terms of returning under own possession usurped properties. These two questions are interconnected and are important for the MoHRA to be able raise revenue. The main finding of the Review is that the Anti Corruption Plan is not well-designed and has many technical problems. First, it does not have proper baselines. Second, the ACP shall be based on proper evaluation of the vulnerabilities within the Ministry.