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Improving Governance and Beating Corruption

16 June 2005

Professor Victor Ayeni, Director of GIDD

Professor Victor Ayeni, Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat's Governance and Institutional Development Division

A training programme on anti-corruption is taking place in Singapore from 13 to 24 June 2005. Twenty-six officials from 21 Commonwealth countries are attending the seminar on 'Better Governance -- Managing Corruption'. The event, jointly sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC) and the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is part of the Singapore-Commonwealth Third Country Training Programme. It is targeted at middle to senior management level executives in the public sector institutions involved in management of anti-corruption programmes and strategies, including senior advisers and officials of regulatory and oversight agencies.

Professor Victor Ayeni, Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat's Governance and Institutional Development Division, which manages this CFTC-funded seminar, stated: "Corruption is a real impediment to development. The seminar is a new initiative that is further testimony to the seriousness the Secretariat attaches to tackling this problem and to strengthening public sector governance in member countries.

"This seminar will provide training for key government officials in Commonwealth developing countries in anti-corruption issues. The aim is to help delegates to design and implement specific strategies to reduce corruption within their own countries. They will have the opportunity to explore different strategies and approaches to tackling corruption, promoting transparency and advancing high ethical standards in government."

Professor Ayeni said the participants will study Singapore's experience in governance, transparency and its efforts to stamp out corruption. The participants will also examine best practices in Commonwealth countries including the use of effective laws, enforcement and prosecution to deal with corruption and fraud.

Other topics in the seminar will focus on clean governance through improvements in human resource, financial and procurement controls, operational processes, and efficient monitoring systems to stem corruption.

 

CNIS - the Commonwealth News and Information Service Issue 239, 15 June 2005

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