Hybrid Anticorruption Agencies

Hybrid Anticorruption Agencies (HACAs) are an innovative model pioneered by the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS). They were created as international mechanisms of intervention to address problems of political corruption and state capture in Guatemala and Honduras. These HACAs carry an international mandate of fiduciary independence, as well as the full authority to act within states, strengthening their investigative and prosecutorial institutions in order to fight corruption at the highest levels. Their hybrid logic seeks to simultaneously generate independence in political institutions as well as the authority to resist pressures and interference from powerful domestic actors who resist investigation, and sometimes government authorities with whom HACAs are supposed to cooperate with.