
Governance, Ethics, and Anti-Corruption Reforms
In today’s global landscape, effective governance, ethics, and anti-corruption reforms are of paramount importance for both public and private sectors. Corruption is a global phenomenon. It has negative effects. It deepens poverty, debases human rights and degrades the environment. It also derails development including private sector development unless corruption is prevented or fought effectively the economic and social gains of the past years will be lost. The core cause of corruption is lack of ethics in both public and private institutions. There is a crisis in ethics, lack of self-regulation or self-governance at individual level. In order to effectively fight or preferably prevent fraud, both public and private institutions should introduce appropriate reforms in areas vulnerable to corruption.
Further, a comprehensive programme on Governance, Ethics, and Anti-Corruption Reforms is needed to equip participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to promote transparency, accountability, and integrity in organizational practices. This programme addresses the urgent need to combat corruption and develop a deep understanding of governance frameworks, ethical decision-making, and anti-corruption strategies.
The programme is relevant for policy makers, middle and senior level staff; audit institutions; anti-corruption bureaus; ombudsmen officers, ethics and anti-corruption commission, ethics secretariat, offices of inspector general and law enforcement institutions.
At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Analyze the impact of corruption on organizations, societies, and economic development
- Appreciate the complexity of corruption and its causes;
- Design and implement workable strategies to prevent, detect and investigate in public and private sector contexts;
- Evaluate existing strategies and explain nexus between ethics, governance and anti-corruption reforms;
- Design codes of conduct and strategies to improve the infrastructure to effectively manage ethics in the sectors, and also be able to evaluate the status quo
- Develop strategies to assess and mitigate corruption risks in various organizational contexts