Confronting Macro-Critical Corruption (CMCC)

Source details

Session No.: CE 24.31
Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Date: December 1-5, 2024 (1 week)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Interpretation Language: Arabic
Status: Deadline passed
Target audience: Policy makers/regulators/law makers/practitioners involved in the development, implementation and monitoring of anticorruption programs, policies, or action plans.

Participants are expected to be in a position of authority with competence to draft, enact, develop, implement, or monitor programs, policies, regulations, or action plans oriented to prevent and deter corruption, strengthen accountability, transparency, integrity, and the rule of law.

Presented by: Legal Department
Purpose: Help member states identify effective anti-corruption strategies tailored to country-specific needs, challenges, and priorities.
Focus areas:
- Developing effective anticorruption legal and institutional frameworks.
- Prioritizing and sequencing strategies to reduce corruption risks.
Course modules:
- (i) IMF's approach to governance and anti-corruption
- (ii) assessing the severity of corruption
- (iii) tailoring anticorruption approaches for impact
- (iv) core principles of effective anticorruption laws and institutions
Additional offering: Two one-hour clinics on selected topics most relevant in the region.

Assist participants to identify ways to engage effectively in fighting corruption and provide support for those efforts.
Provide feasible and constructive options for officials addressing corruption.
Equip participants with tools to:
- Understand the cross-cutting nature of corruption and its impact on governance, economic growth, and macro-economic stability/performance.
- Understand the need to prepare and promote tailor-made and sequenced preventive and enforcement strategies and anti-corruption tools.
- Understand transnational aspects of corruption, including the importance of addressing bribery of foreign public officials and the laundering of proceeds of corruption abroad.
- Achieve a common understanding on anticorruption frameworks, core concepts, and underlying drivers of corruption.
- Make best use of typical approaches and tools to identify and address corruption vulnerabilities.
- Identify the core principles that should inform effective anticorruption strategies, laws, and institutions.