Making a difference

Combating Corruption & Developing Organisational Integrity

Combating corruption, strengthening good governance and maintaining trust and integrity within both the public and private
sectors remain high on the international agenda. Thus it is imperative that the public and private sectors continue to work towards delivering practical measures to develop organisational integrity and increase transparency, engage with the community and increase public trust.

To assist with this work, this interactive skills-based course will equip participants with the strategies, tools and techniques necessary to build human resource capacity and create and maintain an ethos of continuous learning, high standards and cooperative service improvement, while reducing opportunities for, and harm from, corrupt practices.

Who should attend
Public officials from the national, regional and local levels, parliamentarians, staff of law enforcement agencies, regulatory institutions and anti-corruption commissions and policymakers. As well as senior and middle managers, HR managers, project managers, training officers, strategy officers from the public and private sectors who are responsible for continued improvement and transparency, and anti-corruption advisers.

How you will benefit
By the end of the course you will be able to:

• understand the key aspects of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and related international documents concerning maintaining standards of integrity, business ethics and good governance within both the public and private sectors
• analyse your organisation for its strengths and weakness in both trustworthiness and proneness to corruption
• develop an anti-corruption strategy that is sensitive to organisational integrity and leaves the organisation as a whole more trustworthy.

Course profile

• Exploring the meaning, scope and impact of corruption and good government
• Reviewing international initiatives to combat corruption, promote good governance and integrity and manage conflicts of interest
• Embedding business ethics within a corporate culture
• Strategies for maintaining standards in public life
• Strategies for developing and strengthening trust within an organisation
• Understanding formal and informal networks and how they impact on an organisation
• Identifying priorities
• Developing appropriate measures for integrity
• Developing a combined integrity and anti-corruption strategy within an organisation
• Enhancing competence within the organisation
• Creating and implementing organisational standards
• Alignment and strategy: Getting the organisation working together to achieve its strategic objectives with integrity

Spotlight
This course is led by Professor John Hatchard, a world leading expert, researcher and author in the field of governance and combating corruption in the developing world.

• Visiting Professor of Law at The Open University Business School
• Author of the book 'Corruption and Misuse of Public Office', Oxford University Press
• Joint Editor of the Journal of African Law. Held senior positions at the Universities of Zambia and Zimbabwe
• General Secretary of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association.