The project aims to strengthen implementation of anti-corruption measures at national, sub-regional and regional levels. It will do so through supporting key public sector organizations to scale up their systems and mechanisms to implement accountability frameworks.

The project also supports promotion of 'right to information' agenda, including citizens’ access to information, open data and oversight role of non-state actors.

The project combines efforts for a more accountable and transparent institutions, contributing to advancement of the ‘Teieniwa’ Pacific Unity against Corruption Vision and progress against Agenda 2030. It focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 16 on building peaceful, just, and inclusive societies through strengthening integrity anti-corruption systems at national and subnational level.

The 'Strengthening Anticorruption, Transparency and Accountability in Pacific Island Countries' - or Pacific Anti-Corruption Project - is implemented by the UN Development Programme and funded by the UK Government.