THE STRATEGY OF THE HIGH AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ANTI-CORRUPTION IN PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND ETHICAL GOVERNANCE IN ALGERIA
Authors: Rima Laib , Samia Laib 
Published: February 2025

Objective: The study aims to analyze the mechanisms of the National Strategy for Transparency and the Prevention and Combat of Corruption as a guiding line to activate international and national standards for combating corruption at the level of public administrations and economic institutions. These efforts seek to enhance transparency measures and effectively and efficiently prevent corruption through substantial legal amendments across various sectors, embodying the rule of law and promoting good governance by ethicalizing public life and advancing participatory democracy.

Theoretical Framework: The study is based on the embodiment of the national strategy established by the Authority for Transparency, as an original jurisdiction included by the constitutional founder in Article 205, paragraph 1 of the constitutional amendment of 2020. The aim is to build a better future for future generations in the context of social values and principles aimed at building a new Algeria under political and administrative reforms that have worked to establish a new legal arsenal to implement this.

Methodology: The study requires following two main methodologies: the descriptive method ("case study"), highlighting and describing Algeria's efforts to establish a constitutional oversight institution for combating corruption, namely the High Authority for Transparency, Prevention, and Combat of Corruption. Additionally, the analytical method will be used to analyze its strategy and evaluate the extent of its mechanisms' contribution, in cooperation with other state institutions, to the prevention and combat of corruption.

Results and Discussion: The High Authority for Transparency and the Fight against Corruption in Algeria is striving to implement its strategy over the next five years (2023-2027) to create a political, economic and social climate opposed to corruption in all its forms, with the aim of building a state of law that enshrines the principles of integrity, transparency and accountability. The first signs of this implementation have begun with the amendment of some laws and the creation of entirely new ones, forming an effective and qualified legal and institutional system for this purpose. The discussion will include a detailed analysis of the changes and the challenges facing the process of building institutions based on integrity and transparency.

Research Implications: The results of the study contribute to understanding the reforms occurring in Algeria through the legislative and institutional framework in the field of corruption prevention and combat, highlighting their clear impacts on citizens and on administrative and economic institutions in both the public and private sectors. This necessitates the coordination of efforts among all stakeholders to implement measures aimed at executing the strategy of the High Authority for Transparency and the Fight Against Corruption to ethicalize public life, alongside the need for awareness and sensitization regarding the existence of a body responsible for handling reports and notifications within the High Authority for Transparency, with sufficient protection for whistleblowers.

Originality/Value: provides a new contribution to the understanding of the new institutional oversight framework for the promotion of transparency and the fight against corruption under the Constitutional Amendment 2020. It presents the legal evolution of the Transparency Authority and outlines its working strategy, which is a political document par excellence and the first of its kind, reflecting the political will of the public authorities to eradicate corruption and eliminate its roots, with the aim of creating a political, economic and social environment opposed to corruption and building a state of law that enshrines the principles of integrity, transparency and accountability.