OUR GLOBAL MOVEMENT
Maintaining trust and confidence in public institutions, government decision-making, business and the rule of law will be crucial to managing the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuring a successful recovery. As ordinary citizens are being asked to make extraordinary sacrifices in response to the public health crisis, transparency, openness and accountability are essential to ensuring this trust is maintained.
Transparency International UK is one of several leading anti-corruption non-governmental organisations working together as the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition. We urge the UK Government to take the steps outlined in the statement below. Doing so will support an emergency response that is effective, helps to maintain public confidence and lays the foundations for an inclusive economic recovery.
Universal health coverage, meaning that all individuals and communities can access essential quality health services without suffering financial hardship, has become the top priority of the World Health Organisation. Achieving the ambitious goal of universal health coverage will require more resources, and the better use of existing resources.
At the same time, efforts to achieve universal health coverage are being significantly undermined by widespread corruption in frontline healthcare service delivery. Corruption in the health sector kills an estimated 140,000 children a year, fuels the global rise in anti-microbial resistance, and hinders the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Unless the most harmful forms of corruption are curbed, universal health coverage is unlikely to be achieved.
Based on an extensive review of the literature, this report seeks to open a new page by taking a fresh look at the evidence on corruption and anti-corruption. It explores the drivers, prevalence, and impact of corruption at the service delivery level. In many countries, deep structural problems drive frontline healthcare workers to absent themselves from work, solicit gifts and extort bribes from patients, steal medicines, and abuse their positions of power in a variety of other ways, usually without facing any consequences.
Transparency International (TI) is the world’s leading non-governmental anti-corruption organisation. With more than 100 chapters worldwide, TI has extensive global expertise and understanding of corruption. Transparency International UK (TI-UK) works in the UK and overseas to challenge corruption within politics, public institutions, and the private sector, and campaign to prevent the UK acting as a safe haven for corrupt capital.
TI-UK’s Corruption Beginner’s Guide is a free course delivered every year by some of the best anti-corruption fighters in the UK. The programme includes a mix of theory and practical learnings covering both corruption in the UK and abroad.
You will learn from some of TI-UK’s top experts including:
Programme
13:00 What is corruption?
Introduction, Robert Barrington
13:15 What are the costs of corruption?
Our in-house experts will give you an overview of TI’s mission and achievements across various sectors through a series of short lively presentations:
· Measuring corruption, Karolina MacLachlan
· Corruption in the health and pharmaceuticals sector, Sophie Peresson and Michael Petkov
· Corruption in the defence sector, Hilary Hurd
14:15 Break
14:30 What do you do to fight corruption?
Your turn! Choose a hands-one workshop to learn about:
· ‘Advocacy: A Driver for Change’ – Rachel Davies.
Join this workshop if you want to go into advocacy, policy or communications as a career. Using case studies from our work on corruption in the property market, you will learn about different styles of advocacy, how to prepare and implement your advocacy plan, and reach out to different audiences, from policy-makers to the general public.
· ‘Using Data in Research, Theory & Practice’– Steve Goodrich
Open data has been seen as an important tool to help identify networks involved in corruption. However, there are also challenges to how this can be implemented in practice. Bring your laptop along to explore how open data is being used to tackle corruption and some of the challenges anti-corruption campaigners face when using it.
· ‘Ethical decision-making’ – Peter Van Veen
Current or future professionals working in organisations of all sizes, from businesses to NGOs, are at risk of experiencing corrupt behaviours. We created a series of exercises to challenge you and see how you would react in such a situation. Learn clear and practical tips to prevent and resist corruption as well as creating an ethical workplace culture.
15:45 Conclusion and how to stay engaged
Places are limited so reserve your place for a workshop now by visiting our event page.
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].
You are invited to join us at our Universal Health Coverage Day parliamentary event.
Speakers include:
Refreshments will be provided.
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