Seventh Quarterly Report: USAID/Peru Pro-Integridad Project

The project's seventh quarterly report covers the period from July 1 to September 30, 2014. The report reflects the progress of work completed by the project team, as scheduled in the Work Plan for Year 2 approved by USAID. The most significant actions of the project during the current quarter include the implementation of judicial and prosecution corporate management models. A total of 36 participants in the workshop at the Public Ministry of Chachapoyas have improved their understanding of the principles of the Corporate Criminal Prosecution Office Manual. Additionally, 64 members of the Public Ministry in Iquitos and Chachapoyas pilot sites have been trained in the management principles outlined in the Manual. The project also provided technical assistance to develop guidelines for programming and scheduling of hearings and management of the procedural workload with the Criminal Procedure Code – CPC in the Judiciary. This aims to contribute to the improvement of those processes for an increase in hearings held and jurisdictional production in the pilot sites. Furthermore, the project provided diploma courses for judges, prosecutors, and anti-corruption public attorneys from Lima, Callao, and Loreto. A launching ceremony was held in Iquitos with the attendance of local authorities from the Public Ministry and the Judicial Branch. The diploma course will begin in the judicial districts of Amazonas and San Martin for 10 judges, 14 prosecutors, and 1 anti-corruption attorney in the next quarter. The project also developed a more accessible and detailed jurisprudence system. A Guide for the systematization of jurisprudence in corruption matters was developed, and a Compendium of Legal Terms on Official Corruption was created. This Compendium will ease the systematization and search of jurisprudence related to corruption cases and potentially be replicated in other fields. Additionally, the project provided technical assistance to the Judicial Branch to develop a Clear and Simple Language Judicial Manual for Citizens. The approved version of the Manual and the key elements for its implementation were developed by Pro-Integridad jointly with Judiciary's high-level representatives. The objective of the Manual is to advance a goal of the Strategic Agenda of the Judicial Branch 2013 – 2014, specifically, to enhance the use of simple language that allows citizens to fully understand the content of the various documents that make a judicial process. The project also provided assistance to the CPC Technical Implementation Team – ETI-CPC of the Judicial Branch in developing a monitoring system for corruption cases with the Code. This system will track 24 indicators leading to the measurement of the workload, productivity in courts, duration and delay of the process, resort to oral proceedings, and use of alternative solutions. The Institutional Integrity Model (IIM) has been incorporated in the Anti-Corruption Plan of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights – MINJUS. The project accompanied the training workshops initially in July for the directors of the institution and continued for the staff. To date, 539 workers in the ministry have been trained. With these workshops, called "Thursdays of Ethics", there is a continuous and sustained training space for MINJUS staff on issues of public ethics and institutional integrity. The project also provided grants, including the "Conocer para vigilar" grant to Forum Solidaridad. This grant aims to support the development of a monitoring system for corruption cases in the Judicial Branch.