Two new courses join the popular "Leadership and Management for Integrity" course this summer!
High levels of corruption and the lack of integrity in organizational governance worldwide cause harm and waste on an epic scale, especially in developing countries. The losers are the poorest and most vulnerable. Despite vigorous efforts by donors and reform-minded governments alike over the past twenty years, increasing knowledge about corruption and its effects has not been mirrored by successful reforms. Integrity Summer School seeks to impart the principles, strategies, and applied skills necessary to equip practitioners to effectively diagnose integrity gaps and strategize for addressing them. Raising the integrity standards of organizations is increasingly recognized as an effective tool to foster development and strengthen legitimate democratic governance.
Our core course "Leadership and Management for Integrity" will be held for the sixth time in 2010. This course meets a need for critical and strategic approaches to successfully reform institutions to improve levels of governance and integrity. Run in co-operation with CEU Centre for Policy Studies, the last 5 annual courses have been highly rated successful.
Two new courses are on offer this year: "Pro-Poor Integrity" addresses governance focused specifically on Millennium Development Goal attainment and meets the need for critical and strategic approaches to successful integrity interventions and sustainable reforms especially in the countries that are least likely to achieve their developmental goals. "Integrity in Political Society" addresses issues of integrity in the realm of politics such as electoral fraud, non-democratic and weak party systems, non-transparent legislative processes, money politics, and favorable deals for those with access to political leaders.
Drawing on interdisciplinary academic perspectives and lessons learned from practice, these courses represent three of the few targeted, applied, and yet conceptually grounded efforts currently available internationally for the analysis of corruption and anti-corruption, and for strategizing for organizational integrity in a low governance environment. Between them, these courses cover the domains where the demand for integrity training is strongest: public administration, business, academia, aid agencies, civil society, the judiciary, and political life, including elections. The courses thus focus on attracting practitioners from these fields.
Structure of the courses: The morning plenary sessions are centered on cases and experiences in solving specific problems in particular agencies and settings. The afternoon sessions - so-called Policy Labs - have a problem-oriented approach through discussing and analyzing cases from the participants' practice in teamwork. Training is also offered to develop skills of recognizing and solving problems to increase the participants' effectiveness in taking actions and interventions on integrity in their work environment.
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