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Fostering capacity-building to fight corruption.
This platform gathers material that could be useful to better understand corruption and its links with different topics, as well as its causes, effects and ways to combat it.
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Nations around the world are faced with systemic and interconnected political, administrative, economic, and social challenges. Key issues related to those challenges include some misconceptions about transparency and accountability within their public sectors, which allows for self-perpetuating corruption. This global training platform offers a wide range of learning solutions to build the capacity needed to fight corruption.
5
PERCENT
THE YEARLY Global Cost of Corruption amounts to at least 5% of the world’s gdp or $2.6 TRILLION
$1.26
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THE YEARLY cost of corrUption for developing countries
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Corruption undermines development and, in turn, effective anti-corruption efforts accelerate countries’ progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Preventing illicit outflows and ensuring the timely return of stolen assets can make a significant contribution to unlocking resources for financing development efforts.
Fighting corruption for the SDGs
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This e-learning course aims to strengthen the competencies required at the individual and collective level to overcome some of the impacts caused by corruption to the full enjoyment of Human Rights while better understanding the benefits of promoting its prevention to this end.
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Anti-Corruption & Human Rights
Corruption hinders sustainable development in all countries. This e-learning course aims at strengthening the competences required for overcoming some of the challenges to combat corruption, its causes and consequences for sustainable development, while understanding the benefits of promoting its prevention to this end because of its nexus to development, rule of law, and human rights.
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Anti-Corruption & Sustainable Development
The Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre (ROLACC) and the United Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have brought together their expertise and practical knowledge to collaboratively developed the e-learning course on “Anticorruption and Human Rights: Mainstreaming Anticorruption for the effective promotion and protection of Human Rights.”
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Virtual Roundtable on Human Rights and Anti-Corruption
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Launch of the e-learning course on Anticorruption and Sustainable Development
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Corruption hinders sustainable development in all countries, regardless their stage of development. In this regard, mainstreaming knowledge about this problematic pursues the transformation of discriminatory social institutions, laws, cultural norms and community practices, such as those limiting access to property rights or restricting their access to public space. In this event, experts shared practical experiences and views on challenges and opportunities on anticorruption and its link with sustainable development.
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Anti-corruption & COVID-19
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This event brought together experts on anti-corruption to discuss and share insights on how countries are fighting corruption in public procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic, what we can learn from previous health emergencies, and how we can build resilient public procurement processes looking ahead.
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Anti-Corruption University Modules
UNODC
Addressing corruption in the tenure of land, fisheries and forests
FAO
Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement
FAO
Quotes to remember
As we embark together on the quest to combat corruption, it is important to keep the end-goal in mind. Here are some memorable quotes that remind us why we need to end corruption in all its forms, everywhere.
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“To win the fight against corruption is to create the conditions necessary to effectively combat poverty and the inequalities that stem from it.”
Yury Fedotovour, Former Executive Director, UNODC
“Corruption is, quite simply, stealing from the poor.”
Jim Yong Kim, Former World Bank Group President
“Our pledge to achieve sustainable development, and our obligation to fulfil human rights, compel us to at last take tough action against corruption.”
Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“Corruption is an enormous obstacle to the realization of all human rights.”
Navi Pillay, former High Commissioner for Human Rights
“Corruption is the ultimate betrayal of public trust, and it is even more damaging in times of crisis – as the world is experiencing now with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
“Corruption attacks the foundation of democratic institutions by distorting electoral processes, perverting the rule of law and creating bureaucratic quagmires.”
Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General
