Fraud and Corruption Prevention

  • Definitions and Concepts
  • Structure of Government
  • Political Accountability
  • Competitive Private Sector
  • Public Service Management
  • Civil Society Voice and Participation
  • Pillars of an Integrity System that foster Good Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Administration of Public Affairs.
  • Introduction
  • Effects of Corruption
  • Attributes of a Corruption resistant organization
  • Live examples of Corruption in Botswana and its impact on Service Delivery
  • Interventions, strategies to strengthen institutional capacity.
  • Empowerment of staff to enhance and promote accountability.
  • Definitions and Concepts
  • General Role of Leadership
  • Management Failures as a Source of Corruption
  • How leadership can contribute or increase the prosperity for corrupt practices
  • Demonstrate how leadership can mitigate the impact of corruption
  • Practical examples and case studies
  • Definitions and Concepts
  • Whistle-Blowing as an Anti-Corruption Strategy
  • Whistle-Blowing Mechanisms and Policy
  • Practical examples and Case studies
  • Informants Handling
  • Definitions
  • Concepts and Procedures
  • Conditions that support Transparency and Accountability
  • Levels of Accountability
  • Necessary Conditions for Transparency and Accountability
  • Obstacles to Accountability
  • Supervisory Accountability and Delegation
  • Key Instruments that mitigate against the impact of Corruption
  • Public Governance And Accountability
  • Public Financial Management Systems
  • Practical examples and case studies
  • Impact of supervision against corruption practices
  • Structure of an effective supervisory accountability system
  • Benefits of supervisory accountability system
  • Accountability, delegation and responsibility
  • Introduction and overview
  • Context and Challenges in leadership
  • Knowing yourself as a leader
  • Leading people
  • Influential leadership
  • Direction and leadership strategy
  • Developing leaders
  • Definitions and concepts
  • Strategic foundations:
  • Vision, Mission and Values
  • PESTEL Analysis
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Strategic Plans, Goals, KRAs KPAs and KPIs
  • PMS as a tool for promoting individual, team, and organisational accountability for results
  • Business Process re-engineering
  • Improved service delivery
  • Activity based Management Techniques
  • Balanced scorecard framework for managing performance
  • Practical examples (Botswana)
  • Definitions and concepts
  • Risk management framework
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Internal Audit and control systems
  • Accounting systems risks and controls
  • Operations risks and controls
  • Best risk protection practices
  • Corruption/ Fraud Response Plan
  • The three pronged approach:
    • Prevention
    • Detection
    • Response
  • Definitions and concepts
  • Organisational values and charter
  • Conflict of interest management
  • Code of conduct
  • Professional ethics harmonization and management
  • Government instruments i.e statutes
  • Gift policy
  • Various definitions: Legal, Moral and Administrative
  • Various Domestic Legal instruments:
  • Conflict of interest management
    • Corruption and Economic Crime Act
    • Legal Mutual Assistance Act
    • Extradition Act
    • Criminal Procedures and Evidence Act
  • International Legal Instruments
    • SADC Protocol against corruption
    • UN Convention against Corruption
    • African Union Convention on combating Corruption and Related Offences
  • Where is corruption most prevalent?
  • Major corruption examples
  • How can corruption be curbed?
  • Legislation
  • The three pronged approach:
    • Investigation
    • Corruption Prevention
    • Public Education
  • Definitions and concepts
  • Process of money laundering
  • Money laundering Predicate offences
  • Politically exposed persons
  • Consequences of money laundering
  • General Perspective of Investigation
  • Desirable Attributes of an Investigator
  • Traits of an Investigator
  • Investigative Interview Techniques
  • Selected Aspects of the Law Evidence