ACRC’s new anti-corruption training program conducted in the Russian language

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) of the Republic of Korea will run a webinar for three days from November 3, 2020 to share its anti-corruption polices and experiences with countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Organized by the Anti-Corruption Training Institute of the ACRC, the online training course is designed to help build anti-corruption capacities of public officials in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Since 2013, the ACRC has hosted a training course for international anti-corruption practitioners by inviting roughly 15 countries every year. This year, it will open its training program in the Russian language for the first time to address a steady increase in the need for anti-corruption training in the region where Russian is widely spoken.

Due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s course is organized as a webinar, bringing together about 30 public officials from anti-corruption agencies of 10 countries—Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

The training course will cover Korea’s major anti-corruption policies including the Anti-Corruption Initiatives Assessment, Corruption Risk Assessment and whistleblower protection and reward program, which have won international recognition as best practices in the anti-corruption field.

The ACRC will also provide its 8th annual anti-corruption training course in the English language as a webinar on November 17 to 26, 2020. The training webinar is expected to be attended by some 30 participants from 11 countries including Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Laos and Tunisia.

Jeon Hyun-heui, Chairperson of the ACRC, said that more and more countries were showing interest in learning about Korea’s experiences in fighting and preventing corruption.

“As the Korean government has designated the year 2020 as a “Year of New Northern Cooperation,” the ACRC will step up its efforts to expand partnership with countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for exchanging knowledge and practical skills in the anti-corruption field” said the Chairperson.