DR2028 analytical summary. This is a research brief prepared by the DR2028 movement on a real international review mechanism. It is not an official publication. The authoritative records are held by the Organization of American States.
MESICIC — the OAS Anti-Corruption Follow-Up Mechanism
Signing a convention is a promise; the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) is how the Organization of American States checks whether the promise was kept. A committee of experts reviews each State Party in successive rounds, examining how the Convention's provisions have been put into domestic law and practice — and issues country recommendations the state is expected to implement.
How the Dominican Republic has been reviewed
The Dominican Republic is an active State Party in the mechanism. An OAS expert commission conducted an on-site visit to Santo Domingo, gathering information on how the country implements the Convention's provisions on oversight bodies — specifically the Chamber of Accounts (Cámara de Cuentas), the General Directorate of Government Ethics and Integrity (DIGEIG), the Office of the Comptroller General, the Supreme Court of Justice, and the special prosecutor for administrative corruption (PEPCA). The DR has repeatedly consented to these on-site reviews, including for the mechanism's fourth and fifth rounds.
What the mechanism found
MESICIC's recommendations to the Dominican Republic have covered the prevention of conflicts of interest, the preservation of public resources, financial disclosure systems for public officials, and civil society participation in anti-corruption efforts. Each round measures the same thing: not what the law says, but what the institutions do.
DR2028 relevance
MESICIC is the closest thing the hemisphere has to an independent audit of Dominican anti-corruption institutions — and its recommendations read like a to-do list DR2028's decrees were written to execute: empowered oversight bodies, real financial disclosure, protected whistleblowers, and conflicts of interest treated as corruption risk rather than business as usual. When our decrees cite "international standards," this mechanism's country reports are the evidence.