The Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum (HSACF) is governed by the Terms of Reference that promote mutual collaboration, co-operation and assistance relating to addressing key vulnerabilities identified in the health sector. The Terms of Reference set out the rules of engagement in terms of how stakeholders will collaborate to ensure efficient resolution of health sector related fraud and corruption.

The governance structure of the Forum dictate that quarterly meetings are held to monitor progress that has been made on all fraud and corruption related cases, which have been registered and referred to different HSACF stakeholders based on their respective mandates.

The HSACF is intending to significantly reduce fraud and corruption in the health sector through a multi-sector collaboration approach, which will ensure speedy investigations and turnaround times of fraud, corruption and maladministration that have been reported to the Forum. The other key impact of the Forum will be on the criminal prosecution of the perpetrators of fraud and corruption in the health sector. The NPA and Hawks, which are key stakeholders to the Forum, will mainly drive the criminal prosecutions.

However, the Forum is also intending to ensure that funds that have been lost by the State through fraud and corrupt activities are also recovered through civil litigation process. The civil litigation process will largely be driven by SIU through the recently proclaimed Special Tribunal Court by the President. The principle objective for the re-establishment of the Special Tribunal Court is to expedite the finalisations of civil litigation matters instituted by the SIU, which is a key stakeholder and convener of HSACF. The Tribunal is a dedicated forum for the adjudication of civil proceedings instituted by the SIU.