Course Overview
This course will provide those involved in tackling financial corruption with a comprehensive toolkit that will enable them to successfully investigate, prevent and overcome illicit financial flows.
Interactive learning will support participants’ understanding of the key themes around tackling financial corruption, such as institutional frameworks, utilising regulatory mechanisms and strengthening transparency. By examining in-depth case studies and evaluating essential tools to improve preventative and investigative measures, participants will leave equipped to build and implement a highly effective strategic action plan that is informed by international best practice.
A comprehensive analysis of measures to tackle financial corruption will be provided, with subjects to be discussed including:
- Auditing and accounting to track financial fraud
- Anti-bribery provisions
- How the private sector can assist in anti-corruption efforts
- Tackling challenges in the workplace
- Utilising political engagement to further anti-corruption strategy
- Building in innovation and new technology
Experts in the field will lead this training through interactive workshops, lectures and best practice case studies, fostering innovation, creating learning and networking amongst peers.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the delegates will be able to:
- Critically assess, develop and construct action plans to tackle financial corruption
- Lead effective organisational change
- Apply the key principles of transparency and ethics to your organisation
- Improve capacity and support structures, whilst reducing administrative burdens
- Monitor, evaluate and enhance preventative measures and investigative strategies
- Deliver services that more precisely meet stakeholder needs
Agenda
Day 1
Delegates’ introductions and discussion
Experience and lesson sharing
A look ahead to the week
Experience and lesson sharing
A look ahead to the week
The current status of global financial corruption in statistics
Types, main international circuits, secrecy jurisdictions, links with international crime, historical development
How illicit financial flows fit within the wider corruption problem
Enablers of illicit financial flows
The impact of financial corruption on development and security
Types, main international circuits, secrecy jurisdictions, links with international crime, historical development
How illicit financial flows fit within the wider corruption problem
Enablers of illicit financial flows
The impact of financial corruption on development and security
The Anti-Corruption Summit: London 2016 – outcome
The UN and the Sustainable Development Goals
Commonwealth anti-corruption networks
The role of regional organisations and developing countries
Sanctioning efforts and their impacts
Establishing international best practice and closing loopholes
The UN and the Sustainable Development Goals
Commonwealth anti-corruption networks
The role of regional organisations and developing countries
Sanctioning efforts and their impacts
Establishing international best practice and closing loopholes
Who are the key stakeholders for involvement?
Diagnosis and situational analysis
Drafting and formulating anti-corruption measures
Ensuring effective implementation
Monitoring, evaluating and reporting
Diagnosis and situational analysis
Drafting and formulating anti-corruption measures
Ensuring effective implementation
Monitoring, evaluating and reporting
Day 2
Global risk environment
Regulatory frameworks and authorities
Financial regulatory principles: rreating regulation
Analysing costs and benefits to transactions of regulation
National policy on regulation and affect for financial methods
Regulatory frameworks and authorities
Financial regulatory principles: rreating regulation
Analysing costs and benefits to transactions of regulation
National policy on regulation and affect for financial methods
Public engagement with financial regulations
Failures and lessons learnt from past regulation
Failures and lessons learnt from past regulation
Global Policy overview
Case study: UK Bribery Act
Group Discussion: Participant’s Country Specific
Case study: UK Bribery Act
Group Discussion: Participant’s Country Specific
Day 3
Organising and facilitating fraud investigations
Following the money
Operational procedures
Managing teams
Asset recovery
Following the money
Operational procedures
Managing teams
Asset recovery
A snapshot of illicit financial flows and their impact
Capital flight and illicit financial flows
The role of tax policy and preventative measures
The importance of context
Technical assistance
Case study: the World Bank Group and their work on IFFs
Capital flight and illicit financial flows
The role of tax policy and preventative measures
The importance of context
Technical assistance
Case study: the World Bank Group and their work on IFFs
Building relationships with the private sector in support of strategy
Making the business case for tackling financial corruption
What mechanisms can the private sector put in place to prevent illicit financial flows?
Case study: The role of ‘offshore’ tax havens and reducing transparency
Making the business case for tackling financial corruption
What mechanisms can the private sector put in place to prevent illicit financial flows?
Case study: The role of ‘offshore’ tax havens and reducing transparency
Anticipating specific threats to ethics standards and integrity in the public sector
Strengthening the ethical competence and mechanisms to support “professional ethics”
Ethical practices in public accounting, procurement, and adjudication by revenue collection authorities.
Strengthening the ethical competence and mechanisms to support “professional ethics”
Ethical practices in public accounting, procurement, and adjudication by revenue collection authorities.
Day 4
Key areas or Examples of frequently performed risk assessments.
Group Work: Event categories—considering external and internal factors
Group Work: Event categories—considering external and internal factors
Tackling the normalisation of financial corruption
The importance of training and education
Use of techniques such as ‘nudge’
The importance of training and education
Use of techniques such as ‘nudge’
The ‘anti-corruption ticket’ – the rise of populist anti-corruption standpoints
Anti-corruption legislation and engaging politicians in the financial issues
Legislative and political scrutiny – what mechanisms can be used?
Anti-corruption legislation and engaging politicians in the financial issues
Legislative and political scrutiny – what mechanisms can be used?
Utilising various communication mechanisms to strengthen your strategy
Building and maintaining a productive relationship with the media
Advocacy: campaigns, initiatives to broadcast efforts to tackle financial corruption
Building and maintaining a productive relationship with the media
Advocacy: campaigns, initiatives to broadcast efforts to tackle financial corruption
Day 5
Structuring a written piece of work for assessment – Generic Overview and Principles
Structuring these two specific pieces of work to demonstrate all the assessment criteria
Structuring these two specific pieces of work to demonstrate all the assessment criteria
How has innovation been used to tackle financial corruption?
The development and importance of technology
Developing an organisational culture of innovation
Utilising relationships with the private sector
Case study: technology for investigation
The development and importance of technology
Developing an organisational culture of innovation
Utilising relationships with the private sector
Case study: technology for investigation
Strategic facilitated workshop
End of week wrap up
Certificate presentations
Evaluation forms
Group photo
Certificate presentations
Evaluation forms
Group photo
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