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INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION ACADEMY ACKNOWLEDGES MACC'S INITIATIVES TO JOINTLY DEVELOP INTERNATIONAL MASTERS PROGRAMME
Saturday 06/10/2012
KUALA LUMPUR, October 6 (Bernama) -–
The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for the purpose of underlining their efforts of jointly fostering the prevention of and the fight against corruption as well as the support for the rule of law and good governance.
With the signing of the MoU, MACC Chief Commissioner Dato’ Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed and IACA Chairman and Executive Secretary Martin Kreutner have officially established a framework of cooperation for the first International Masters Programme in anti-corruption under which, part of the programme would be conducted at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA) here.
Dato’ Sri Abu Kassim is a member of the INTERPOL Group of Experts on Corruption (IGEC) and executive committee member of the International Academic Advisory Board of the Vienna-based International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) while Martin Kreutner is also European Partners Against Corruption network (EPAC) President.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA) also conducts some international programmes and is the world's first anti-corruption academy.
The 24-month Masters Programme for anti-corruption professionals, police officers, judges and other enforcement agency officers will be launched on Dec 9 to coincide with World Anti-Corruption Day.
It is the first full-pledged programme on the global corruption studies, addressing corruption from various perspectives and will have participants from all five continents and all regions.
Kreutner said it would not only incorporate the perspective of corruption and the law but also the perspective of corruption and science, corruption and security, corruption and politics and economics.
"The modules will reflect the common understanding and international cooperation in fighting corruption which has become very important and therefore we place strong emphasis on international cooperation," he said.
Following the Exchange of Letters between the MACC and the IACA on Cooperation on Training and Research on July 2010, the MoU was signed to further strengthen this partnership in order to generate synergies and enhance the sharing of knowledge between each other and with other stakeholders as well as to support each other’s mission and objectives.
With the signing of the MoU, MACC acknowledges the efforts of IACA, an international organization with its seat in Laxenburg, Austria. Originally, this programme is a joint initiative by the IACA together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Republic of Austria, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and other stakeholders. IACA is now a pioneering institution with 58 Member States of the United Nations and three International Organizations from all regions of the globe that aims to overcome current shortcomings in knowledge and practice in the field of anti-corruption.
IACA functions as an independent centre of excellence in the field of anti-corruption through education, training, networking, cooperation and academic research following a holistic approach which is international, inter-disciplinary, inter-sectorial, integrative and sustainable.
IACA recognizes the efforts of MACC, as an Anti-Corruption body in Malaysia that is playing an important role in fighting against corruption domestically and internationally and its role through MACA as an excellence training centre in the field of anti-corruption through conducting training, networking, anti-corruption research internationally for enhancing capability of Anti-Corruption Officers and to assist IACA in developing training programmes in the area of anti-corruption and facilitating the Master Programme in Anti-Corruption Studies and other forms of anti-corruption capacity building programmes.
MACC have also signed MoUs with INTERPOL and The National Anti-Corruption Commission of Thailand (NACC).
Prior to this, MACC signed similar MoUs with several counterparts from other countries, namely the Anti-Corruption Bureau , Brunei, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice of Ghana, the Anti-Corruption Control Authority, Egypt, the National Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Government Inspectorate of Vietnam and the ICAC Hong Kong.
ISSUED BY THE MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION
Name : Ms Nurirdzuana Ismail/Ms Yip Ai Tsin
Corporate Communications Unit
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
Tel : 6013-3944969/6019-6991123
--BERNAMA
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