Transparency International Defence and Security Programme (TI DSP) has been engaged with the Colombian Ministry of Defense and the Colombian Air Force in collaboration with the Colombian national chapter of Transparency International.

Colombia was the first country to pilot Defence Integrity Pacts, which was carried out in 2004 and 2005. This was carried out in cooperation with Transparencia por Colombia in order to strengthen the transparency of a tender exercise worth $237 million for 22 drug interdiction aircraft. The application of the Pact in this tender was part of a wider international exercise designed to develop and test approaches for reducing corruption in the defence sector generally. The Ministry of Defense was thoroughly supportive of increased transparency for this tender. In the end the tender did not go through to completion as all but one of the bidding companies withdrew.  Nevertheless, many useful lessons were learned through the process.

Our report 'Defence Procurement and Integrity Pacts in Colombia: Report 2' captures the learning gained from this process, and discusses the procedures followed and the results. In addition, we published the report 'Practical Application of Defence Integrity Pacts: Experience in Colombia', which outlined the lessons Colombia taught us about implementing Defence Integrity Pacts in a broader setting.  Our earlier report 'Defence Procurement and Integrity Pacts in Colombia: Report 1' outlines the results of a study carried out by Transparencia por Colombia and TI DSP into the procurement procedures used in the Ministry of Defense and the use of a simplified form of Integrity Pact in Colombian defence procurement procedures.

TI DSP also led a review of defence procurement practices in the Ministry of Defence. Transparencia por Colombia is involved in defence and security corruption issues, and advocates for counter-corruption reforms in the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces.

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