Education is central to preventing corruption, and therefore young people, as the potential leaders of tomorrow, are a particularly important target group for ethics education. In response TI has produced a Special Edition of its Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit exclusively dedicated to youth anti-corruption education. Written mainly by TI national chapters, all 11 examples contribute to fostering a zero-tolerance approach to corruption, and to building demand for accountability. With many illustrations, this 80 page booklet documents tools from Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Georgia, Italy, Macao, Moldova, Uganda, United States of America and Zambia.

INTRODUCTION

Education is central to preventing corruption. Even clear laws and regulations and well-designed institutions will not be able to prevent corruption, unless citizens actively demand accountability from government and institutions.

The attitudes and expectations of citizens are crucial in building a responsive public administration. Therefore, fostering attitudes that do not tolerate corruption is at the core of Transparency International's (TI's) work. Ethics education for young people can help to break the cycle of corruption, as today's youth will be the potential leaders of tomorrow.

However, anti-corruption education does not work in isolation. The environment in which children grow up plays a decisive role in shaping their attitudes. Ethics education must be part of a broader effort to improve governance and reduce corruption. Within this framework, children must have an appropriate and conducive learning environment that values integrity.

Thus, in order to be credible, anti-corruption teaching must relate to the daily lives of the students and address real life ethical dilemmas, conflicts of interest and corruption cases.

Teaching Integrity to Children

Corruption in the Education Sector


About TI

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Transparency International, the only international non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption, brings civil society, business, and governments together in a powerful global coalition.

TI, through its International Secretariat and more than 85 independent national chapters around the world, works at both the national and international level to curb both the supply and demand of corruption. In the international arena, TI raises awareness about the damaging effects of corruption, advocates policy reform, works towards the implementation of multilateral conventions and subsequently monitors compliance by governments, corporations and banks. At the national level, chapters work to increase levels of accountability and transparency, monitoring the performance of key institutions and pressing for necessary reforms in a non-party political manner.

TI does not expose individual cases (that is the work of journalists, many of whom are members of TI chapters). Rather, in an effort to make long-term gains against corruption, TI focuses on prevention and reforming systems.

A principal tool in the fight against corruption is access to information. It is in this spirit that we offer this web site to everybody with an interest in the fight against corruption. We hope it will make a valuable contribution to assessing the gains made in recent years, and to contemplating the challenges that still lie ahead.

Peter Eigen, Chairman of the Board of Directors

Knowledge Centre

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The effective use of knowledge is perhaps the most potent of all the weapons we can use in the fight against corruption. The right information in the right hands is a formidable combination. The Knowledge Centre sets out to make necessary knowledge readily available - to activists, policy-makers, journalists, lawyers, parliamentarians, private sector interests, law enforcers and law reformers. It facilitates the drafting of new instruments and the appraisal of reforms proposed by others.

Included in the Knowledge Centre are:

The Anti-Corruption Handbook - a comprehensive reference tool for those working towards anti-corruption reform

The TI Source Book 2000
(Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System)

The Global Corruption Report

CORISweb is TI's Corruption Online Research and Information System - the web portal which gives free and easy access to quality information on corruption and good governance. CORISweb holds over 19000 resources including a vast number of e-documents and news as well as information on projects, events, courses and experts. CORISweb is unique as it is a decentralised, multilingual system and allows anyone, anywhere in the world to enter information in a variety of languages via simple, online forms.

surveys (TI Bribe Payers Survey, TI Corruption Perceptions Index, TI-Kenya Urban Bribery Index, TI-Mexicana Encuestra Nacional de Corrupcion y Buen Gobierno, Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit)

the Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit

TI publications

Integrity Pact and Corruption in public contracting leads to a distortion of fair competition, and frequently to the waste of scarce resources which, especially in developing countries, may contribute to the neglect of basic needs and to increased poverty. Experts estimate that systemic corruption can add 20-25% to the costs of government procurement and frequently results in inferior quality goods and services and uneconomic investments or unnecessary purchases. If corruption in this area is not contained, it will grow. For these reasons, Transparency International has been working persistently to raise the awareness of governments, companies and civil society worldwide of the importance of preventing and combating corruption in public contracting and to develop tools for this purpose.

issue papers (a wide range of papers that examine corruption in different areas, from anti-corruption agencies to research on trade and commerce)

country papers (includes the National Integrity Systems country studies)

OECD country reports

Most recent press releases

links to other useful anti-corruption websites

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The Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre is dedicated to the global fight against corruption. It guides users to relevant anti-corruption resources, including digests of frequently-asked questions on a wide range of anti-corruption themes, and it informs about the Utstein partners and their anti-corruption work, including a comprehensive and searchable database of partners' anti-corruption projects and initiatives. The U4 - Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre is being developed at Chr. Michelsen Institute for Development and Human Rights, Bergen, Norway, in association with Transparency International's Centre for Innovation and Research, London, UK.