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  "title": "Building Institutions to Fight Corruption (BIFC)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/courses/bifc",
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  "summary": "It will cover systems and institutions for both revenue and expenditure management.",
  "publishDate": "2022-12-15",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program",
      "content": "- Presented by IMF staff and led by the Fiscal Affairs Department.\n- Sets out a detailed road map to identify and address vulnerabilities to corruption in the public financial management cycle.\n- Covers systems and institutions for both revenue and expenditure management.\n- Presents indicators and red flags that can alert policy makers and oversight agencies of possible challenges and weaknesses.\n- Discusses the potential macro-fiscal implications and costs of corruption.\n- Includes examples and case studies from the region.\n- Aims to help country authorities build their institutions and skills to fight corruption."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Mid-to senior level professionals from:\n  - Ministries of Finance\n  - Central Banks\n  - Leader/President/Prime Minister’s Office\n  - Supreme Audit Institution\n  - Anti-Corruption Commission\n  - Accountant General's Office\n- These agencies are identified as critical in shaping and implementing a country’s anticorruption strategy and policies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Applicants are expected to be mid-to senior level qualified professionals with several years of experience of policy making and/or working on addressing vulnerabilities to corruption in the fiscal area."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Identify the legal instruments, mechanisms, and strategies that need to be in place to both prevent and prosecute corruption.\n- Better understand the need for a strong rule of law and how it relates to corruption.\n- Understand mechanisms for international cooperation designed to fight corruption."
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    "Sets out a detailed road map to identify and address vulnerabilities to corruption in the public financial management cycle.",
    "Covers systems and institutions for both revenue and expenditure management.",
    "Presents indicators and red flags that can alert policy makers and oversight agencies of possible challenges and weaknesses.",
    "Discusses the potential macro-fiscal implications and costs of corruption.",
    "Includes examples and case studies from the region.",
    "Aims to help country authorities build their institutions and skills to fight corruption.",
    "Mid-to senior level professionals from:",
    "These agencies are identified as critical in shaping and implementing a country’s anticorruption strategy and policies.",
    "Applicants are expected to be mid-to senior level qualified professionals with several years of experience of policy making and/or working on addressing vulnerabilities to corruption in the fiscal area.",
    "Identify the legal instruments, mechanisms, and strategies that need to be in place to both prevent and prosecute corruption.",
    "Better understand the need for a strong rule of law and how it relates to corruption.",
    "Understand mechanisms for international cooperation designed to fight corruption."
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