Angola's Ministry of Finance plans to establish Ethics Committee to reinforce integrity in public finance management

At a workshop for ministry managers and technical staff, Angola's Ministry of Finance said it intends to establish an Ethics Committee to strengthen a culture of ethics, integrity and responsibility across the institution. The ministry presented internal control, legality oversight, corruption prevention, accountability of public managers, anti-money laundering, institutional security and state protection as linked parts of a single effort to safeguard public finance management and trust in state institutions. The State Secretary said the committee would support the permanent promotion and protection of institutional values, with ethics expected to shape decision-making, leadership, management of conflicts of interest, use of public resources and service to citizens. Workshop discussions also covered the internal control system and state inspection activity, oversight of the legality and regularity of public finances and sanctions on public managers, the national strategy for preventing and detecting corruption, whistleblower reporting and legal protection, and Angola's strategy to exit the Financial Action Task Force increased monitoring list and the European Union list of high-risk money laundering jurisdictions. Representatives of the General Inspectorate of State Administration, the Court of Accounts, the Financial Intelligence Unit and the State Intelligence Services attended.