“ACRC shared Korea’s major anti-corruption policies with 8 countries from Asia and Africa”

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) of the Republic of Korea organized a training course to share its experience in implementing anti-corruption policies with public officials from 8 countries in Asia and Africa.

The ACRC Training Course for International Anti-Corruption Practitioners took place for six days from September 4th at the Anti-Corruption Training Institute of the ACRC. It brought together 16 participants from eight countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania and Uganda.

The course covered Korea’s major anti-corruption measures including Integrity Assessment, Corruption Risk Assessment and whistleblower protection and reward program, which have earned international recognition as best practices in the anti-corruption field.

The capacity building program will also deal with international anti-corruption instruments such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, as well as Korea’s domestic legislation including the Act on the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest of Public Officials and the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act.

The ACRC has run the multinational training course every year since 2013 for public officials from anti-corruption agencies around the world as part of its efforts to implement chapter VI of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, devoted to technical assistance and information exchange. To date, its training course was attended by a total of 338 participants from 71 countries.

In response to a steady increase in the need for its anti-corruption training, the ACRC developed a new training course conducted in the Russian language for countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2020 and another provided in French for countries in Africa this year in addition to its annual course in English. It also plans to launch a course offered in Spanish next year for countries in Central and South America.

Kim Se-shin, Executive Director of the Institute, said “the ACRC will continue to expand its support for other countries to enhance their anti-corruption capacities and improve their national integrity by sharing Korea’s experience in preventing and fighting corruption.”