CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE 4. Promote a human resource development strategy for wilayas that are suffering from a shortage of managerial level staff. 5. Strengthen mechanisms for service delivery control and assessment by implementing appropriate channels of information and feedback that are accessible to citizens. Objective 6: Fighting corruption in the political sphere i. Summary of the CSAR 284. According to the CSAR, corruption in Algeria is perceived to be a major challenge by both the public and the authorities. The multidimensional crisis the country experienced in the 1990s encouraged corruption, as did the priority given to the fight against terrorism, inadequate control mechanisms of the state and the unbridled opening up of the economy, which all have increased the opportunities for corruption. 285. At judicial level, Algeria subscribed to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2004 and to the African Convention for the Fight Against Corruption in 2006. At the internal level, the Act on the Prevention and Fight Against Corruption (Act 06-01), promulgated on 20 February 2006, comprises elements summarised by the Minister of Justice at a meeting in Peking on the fight against corruption as follows: The notion of corruption has a wider application. The broad definition of a public official includes all national or foreign functionaries, elected members and any person charged with managing a public service that concerns both the public and the private sector. As it deals with preventative measures, the new Act imposes standards on different public administrations and other entities in the private sector by providing guidelines on recruitment and financial and administrative management. The Act also emphasises the important role of civil society, especially the media, in informing and sensitising the population. The establishment of a national body charged with the prevention of, and fight against corruption, is called for. There is broad incrimination of practices that are contrary to probity in public office and to transparency in public life, both in the political and the economic spheres. The new Act also extends incrimination for corruption to conflicts of interest; to the acceptance of gifts that are prejudicial to the normal exercise of duties; and to the secret financing of political parties. 97