Integrity is a concept that requires the alignment of competence, accountability, corruption control, and core values. Experience suggests that only a multipronged strategy to improve integrity standards will overcome the problems posed by poor governance and corruption. A one-size-fits-all approach will not work. There is a growing recognition among leading policy practitioners that the cutting edge of sustainable reform lies at least in part in the interaction between different stakeholders.
This course is one of the rare efforts to take a multi-stakeholder approach to achieve short and medium-term reform.The approach offered by this course is interdisciplinary straddling law, economics, business, public administration, public sector ethics, as well as politics, statistical and ethnographic approaches. The course will familiarise participants with core ingredients to a strategic and critical approach for effective and sustainable organisational integrity reform and to raising integrity standards in public and private institutions.Beyond the traditional lectures and seminars, various alternative methods will be used, including training DVDs, expert panel, workshops (Policy Lab), discussion groups, individual and group paper presentations by the participants. Participants are expected to complete assignments in advance, during and after the course and are encouraged to utilise the course's e-learning site.
The morning plenary session is centred on cases and experiences in solving specific problems in particular agencies and settings. The topics of the plenary sessions are cross-cutting issues such as definitions, measurements and research methodology, leadership, public value creation, and ethics in public life, and also distinct areas such as access to information, fiscal transparency, and risk assessment and management with a focus on integrity issues in inter-governmental organisations, public administration, civil society, politics and parliaments.Some of the world's foremost experts and practitioners in the field of integrity and anti-corruption will teach and lead discussions to help forge creative and contextually-sensitive solutions to a problem that burdens many societies and poses a major risk to programmes in business, government and civil society. The remainder of the day is devoted to specialist Policy Labs that explore practical, problem-solving solution to specific integrity challenges and contexts.
Four policy labs are on offer this year:Business Integrity in Emerging Markets policy lab aims to develop new insights into business integrity in emerging markets and why integrity innovation represents one of the biggest opportunities for market advantage, to gain strategies for collective action and engaging multiple stakeholders to strengthen the integrity performance of your business, and to foster an organizational learning culture in your company to promote business integrity.Convenor: Fredrik Galtung, Chief Executive Officer, TiriNew Frontiers in E-Accountability policy lab is offered for policy practitioners interested in using e-accountability to advance the public interest. It will focus on the steps an NGO can take to create and maintain state-monitoring tools based on public information and the capacities it must develop and/or tap into to achieve these goals. It will develop around the actual building of functioning monitoring tools based on actual data, which have a growing relevance to a large number of developing and transition countries.
Convenor: Claudio Weber Abramo, Executive Director of Transparencia Brasil(Re)Building the Post-War State from Below policy lab aims to bring together a small group of experts and practitioners to deliberate in depth on specific post-war challenges and approaches to (re)building the post-war state from below. This policy lab will set out the challenges in the process of state-building, including destabilizing corruption risks, and interventions that strengthen capacities and accountability mechanisms from below and aims to develop recommendations to tackle these challenges.
Co-Convenors: Lorenzo Delesgues, founder of Integrity Watch Afghanistan; Claire Schouten, Associate Programme Director, NIR, Tiri Strengthening Electoral Justice policy lab will address electoral integrity issues that are often left out in the reform agenda, will encourage strategic thinking, and explores emerging international standards of electoral justice and each major stakeholder in a democracy can both strengthen and undermine this outcome. The discussions will focus on how the Electoral Management Bodies and civil society organisations can, in particular, leverage other stakeholders to improve electoral justice outcomes.Convenor: Patrick Rafolisy, Head of Integrity Africa, Tiri
Period
20-06-2011 - 29-06-2011 (2 weeks)
Target group
The course is aimed at two main target audiences:
- Practitioners who would be principally drawn from various groups: operational line managers, business executives, internal control specialists (e.g. investigators, compliance officers, inspectors, etc.) and external monitors and change agents (e.g. media, NGOs, think tanks, etc.).
- Academics who develop similar courses at their own universities, both within the region and beyond.
Tiri's courses are unique in implementing multi-stakeholder and problem-oriented approach, using real-life examples to tackle integrity problems. Bringing together participants with various backgrounds enhances the information and experience exchanges and enables students to look at a problem from different perspectives.Applications are welcome from participants with line management responsibility for protecting programmatic integrity, whether in government (e.g. in a ministries, local government), in an NGO (e.g. delivering major programmes in a post-disaster setting or a low-governance environment), in business (especially those operating in some key emerging markets), or supporting and facilitating reforms in other institutions as a donor, through the UN, the European Commission, foundations, and similar organizations.
Academic Pre-requisites:The requirements for policy practitioners is in all but rare cases the possession of an advanced degree (MA and above) as well as a minimum of five years' work experience in a relevant field.For academics, the minimum requirement in all but rare cases will be the possession of a PhD as well as a faculty position in a curriculum that would enable the participant to develop and implement a policy-relevant course in the near future.
Course aim
Raising integrity standards is increasingly recognised as an effective tool to foster development and strengthen legitimate democratic governance. This course, held for the seventh year, meets a need for critical and strategic approaches to successfully reform institutions to improve levels of governance and integrity. Organisational integrity here refers in large measure to internal processes of control and value-driven reform. This course is aimed at managers, internal control specialists (e.g. investigators, compliance officers, inspectors, etc.) as well as civil society representatives. It will also be open to academics interested in offering similar courses at their own universities.
Credits
0.0 ECTS creditsThe "Leadership and Management for Integrity" course is offered for professional development for practitioners with line management responsibility for protecting programmatic integrity (in government, in an NGO, in business). The course may also involve scholars and academics teaching and researching these subjects. Those who wish to obtain credits that count toward their degree should consult their home institution in advance whether the CEU SUN course can be accepted for credit transfer. The CEU Summer University Office will be able to provide all course documentation, such as course description, syllabus, reading list, etc. upon request.
Course fee
EUR 1200: Early Bird fee:1080 EUR In case of early registration if payment is made before April 30, 2011.
EUR 800: Eraly bird fee: 720 EUR In case of early registration if payment is made before April 30, 2011.
Course leader
Fredrik Galtung, Tiri
Scholarships
Financial aid is available in the following categories:- tuition waiver- accommodation grant- travel grant (full or partial)
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Leadership and Management for Integrity
