Our Mission
The Division for People and Social Inclusion at UNITAR has been working on anticorruption issues since 2019.
From 2019 to 2022, we joined efforts with the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre (ROLACC) to develop capacity building initiatives for supporting the fight against corruption. 3692 persons from more than 150 countries and different sectors, received access to these learning initiatives.
Since 2023, we have been working with the Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC). Strengthening parliamentarians' anti-corruption capacity through capacity building is crucial because of their role in the adoption of laws and the public budget, as well as the oversight of Governments’ laws, policies, and the implementation of recommendations coming from the ratification of international treaties.
Background
Corruption hinders people’s welfare in all countries - regardless of their stage of development. At the international level, there is a common agreement on the need of suppressing and preventing corruption due to its negative impacts and ripple effects for Human Rights and sustainable development, including participation, equitable distribution of resources, employment, leadership, and decision-making at all levels, among other repercussions.
In order to tackle its root causes and consequences, as well as to find solutions for prevention, accountability, and redress, the impact of mainstreaming knowledge is a powerful tool for upholding the rule of law, while overcoming discriminatory social institutions, laws, cultural norms, and community practices for transforming the lives of individuals and societies.
It pursues the change of discriminatory social institutions, laws, cultural norms, and community practices. Therefore, the creation of spaces and initiatives to raise awareness and to build knowledge, like the following ones, represents an opportunity to enhance capabilities towards a culture of learning.
Learning Initiatives
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Find below information by clusters on Anticorruption and its link with: Parliamentarians, Protection to sources of information, women, assessment tool for the UNCAC, Sustainable Development, Human Rights, digital tools, climate change, COVID, and Contemporary Literacy.
LEARNING INITIATIVES
- E-LEARNING COURSES
- WORKSHOPS
- VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLES
- ONLINE PLATFORMS
- CONFERENCES
- NEWS
PARLIAMENTARIAN PROTECTION TO SOURCES OF INFORMATION
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E-learning Course. Coming soon!
This e-learning course aims at strengthening knowledge and empowering parliamentarians and related advisor on the protection of sources and whistleblowers while simultaneously advancing anti-corruption efforts. Likewise, it aims at raising awareness on their pivotal role within civil servants, including policymakers and practitioners; civil society; academia; the private sector; National Human Rights Institutions; and International Organizations.
Available in: English, Arabic, and Spanish.
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PARLIAMENTARIAN WOMEN TO THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
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E-learning Course. Coming soon!
This e-learning course aims at strengthening knowledge and empowering parliamentarians and related advisor on the protection of sources and whistleblowers while simultaneously advancing anti-corruption efforts. Likewise, it aims at raising awareness on their pivotal role within civil servants, including policymakers and practitioners; civil society; academia; the private sector; National Human Rights Institutions; and International Organizations.
Available in: English, Arabic, and Spanish
ANTICORRUPTION ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR PARLIAMENTARIANS
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E-learning Course. Coming soon!
This e-learning course aims at strengthening the assessment capacities of parliamentarians for the effective implementation of the United Nations Development Programme, UNCAC.
Available in: English, Arabic, and Spanish
ANTICORRUPTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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E-learning Course
This tool aims at strengthening the competences required for overcoming some of the challenges to combat corruption. In addition to learning its causes and consequences for sustainable development, participants will also understand the benefits of its prevention for the enhancement of the rule of law and the enjoyment of Human Rights.
Available in: English, Spanish and Arabic
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Impact Stories from the e-learning course Anticorruption and Sustainable Development
Learn more about this course from the impact story on the 1st. iteration:
Available in: English
“PEOPLE - STRENGTHENING CAPACITIES ON ANTICORRUPTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”
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Virtual Roundtable
In this virtual discussion experts focused on the importance of capacity building for combating the detrimental effects of corruption on sustainable development from different perspectives.
To view the recording on our dedicated YouTube channel, please click here.
Available in: English
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Training of Trainers Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda
It was designed to increase the knowledge of experts on the problematic of corruption and its link with sustainable development, while enhancing capabilities to design and deliver effective training programs to properly transmit this expertise.
Available in: English
ANTICORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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E-learning Course
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.
Available in: English, Arabic, and Spanish
For more information regarding the online platform, kindly view the brochure below.
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Workshop: Hybrid format, in Doha and online
This three-day workshop aimed to strengthen knowledge on how corruption can trigger a domino effect on civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights because of their universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent, and mutually reinforcing nature. In the same vein, it was the opportunity to learn how combating corruption towards the effective promotion and protection of Human Rights, while stressing on the importance of leadership qualities needed to drive meaningful change. and knowledge transfer through a multiplying effect.
Interpretation services: English and Arabic
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Virtual Roundtable/Launch event of an e-learning course
Thursday, the 1st of July @ 9am EST/ 3pm CET.
"Human Rights and Anticorruption: The impact of the rule of law and good governance for Building Back Better"
The objective of this virtual discussion is to share good practices and challenges on the impact of good governance for building more equal, inclusive and prosper societies that are more resilient in the face of pandemics.
Available in: English
Find the video-recording here.
TECHNOLOGIES AND ANTICORRUPTION
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Global Training Hub.Coming soon!
For the sake of inclusiveness, digital tools, such as this hub open the doors towards a culture of learning for improving quality of life. It has online courses, useful sources, related websites and videos.
Available in: English
https://www.unitar-gopac-learn.org
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Virtual Roundtable
This event was the opportunity to learn about existing technologies that can serve to parliamentarians for combatting corruption in the framework of digital cooperation, while making visible possible synergies to foster transparency and partnerships towards the UN “Summit of the Future.”
Interpretation services: English, Arabic and Spanish
Find the video-recordings in the 3 languages here:
- English: Virtual Roundtable. Parliaments using technologies for combating corruption. GOPAC & UNITAR (youtube.com)
- Arabic Virtual Roundtable. Parliaments using technologies for combating corruption. GOPAC & UNITAR (Arabic) (youtube.com)
- Spanish Virtual Roundtable. Parliaments using technologies for combating corruption.GOPAC & UNITAR (Spanish) (youtube.com)
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E-learning Course
This e-learning course aims to provide a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges of using technologies to combat corruption while raising awareness, empowering people, and fostering positive mindsets for transforming lives.
Interpretation services: English, Arabic, and Spanish
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Online Platform
The Global Anticorruption Training Platform gathers and makes visible existing material on corruption issues, which is publicly available on different webpages. It fosters publications, information on courses, and videos. In addition, it fosters relevant quotes, curious facts, related events, news, and other websites of interest. The documents have been placed with a brief explanation of the material, together with a picture and the official link that will take the visitors to the related webpage where they could find more detailed information.
The available information may be useful for learning, clarifying concepts, or contextualizing, through glossaries, stories, information on mechanisms, educative events, explanations about the UN Convention against Corruption, as well as core processes, perspectives on the acts of corruption, information that explores the link between corruption and other issues -including development-, studies, reports, manuals, guidelines, frameworks, orientation documents, principles, etc.
Available in: English, with links to find documents in different languages.
Please click here to visit the online platform.
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Virtual Roundtable
During this event, our expert panellists shared practical experiences and views on challenges and opportunities on the use of digital tools for combating corruption, while fostering capacity building through access to information.
This sets the scenario for the official launch of the Global Platform on Anticorruption.
Find the video-recording here
For more information regarding this event, kindly view the brochure below.
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ANTICORRUPTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
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Virtual Roundtable
This event was the opportunity to learn about mitigating the causes and effects of climate change through anticorruption efforts by Parliamentarians at national and international level. At the end of the event, participants will also be able to learn on common challenges and some impacts at international level as well as identifying possible synergies to foster international cooperation.
Interpretation services: English, Arabic and Spanish
Find the video recordings in the 3 languages here:
- English: Virtual Roundtable (English). Parliamentary accountability and good governance for climate change. (youtube.com)
- Arabic Virtual Roundtable (Arabic). Parliamentary accountability and good governance for climate change. (youtube.com)
- Spanish Virtual Roundtable (Spanish). Parliamentary accountability and good governance for climate change. (youtube.com)
COVID AND ANTICORRUPTION
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Virtual Roundtable
Experts shared relevant remarks on challenges and good practices in the use of resources while preventing corruption, in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Available in: English
Find the video-recording here.