Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Business, Government & Society

The world has become a more competitive and diverse market place than ever before. Business owners must now be able to develop the necessary skills to successfully navigate such a dynamic environment. The Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning designed this suite of courses to provide business owners with an understanding of the intersection between Business, Government and Society within the online and offline environments in which they operate. The courses were created to provide delegates with theoretical, technical and practical knowledge of the economic, legal, regulatory, political, ethical and societal roles of Business.

Business, Government & Society

Anti-corruption Strategies for the Public Sector

Overview

This course examines the various regulatory responsibilities of the public sector in providing oversight to curb corrupt practices of public officials.  It explores the tools and strategies that public officials can employ to effectively curb corruption. Through the use of templates, case studies, interactive seminars and scenarios, delegates will be exposed to methods that can be incorporated into the public sector to effectively curb corruption.

​Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face

What will I Learn?

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Define various forms and types of corruption;
  • Outline the causes and risks of corruption in the public sector;
  • Discuss existing policies and processes that can be used to curb corruption in the public sector
  • Apply templates and tools to address ethics, integrity, conflicts of interest in the public sector;
  • Design anti-corruption interventions to close the opportunity gaps for corruption in the public sector.

Who Should do this Course

– Public Officials
– Legislators

Important Information

By taking this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Develop the confidence and appreciation to implement ant-corruption systems in the public sector;
  • Demonstrate skill in implementing anticorruption measures in the public sector;

Effectively design preventative anti-corruption tools and processes to curb corruption in the public sector.

At a Glance

  • Admissions Term: 2019/2020 Semester II
  • Date: May 18th- 20th, 2020
  • Time: Monday - Wednesday 8:30pm-5:30pm
  • Duration: 3 days ( 24hours )
  • Certificate Awarded: Professional Development Certificate of Competence
  • Course Code: PDLL149
  • Capacity: 25
  • Cost: BDS $2510 (US$1255)

The course will be delivered in three modules:

  • Module 1: Corruption Terms, Definitions and Risk
  • Module 2: Preventative anti-corruption strategies in the public sector
  • Module 3: Designing anti-corruption interventions for the public sector
 

The course uses a combination of interactive sessions and break out group activities and seminars, each of which utilizes a range of teaching/learning strategies.

 

Josh O.W. Drayton

Josh is a researcher in anti-corruption, governance and public policy. He has over ten years’ experience teaching in areas anti-corruption, governance and public policy at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. He was the lead researcher for Trinidad and Tobago in the Global Integrity Money, Politics and Transparency project which measured political finance indicators in fifty countries around the world. He was also the first Open Government Independent Researcher for Trinidad and the English-speaking Caribbean. In addition to being a researcher, Josh has contributed to the development of civil society in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean by co-developing the Trinidad and Tobago civil society accountability toolkit, conducting workshops on internal accountability and transparency for CSOs, being contracted by donors to develop internal governance manuals for CSOs in Barbados and the OECS. He was also a director at the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute and former Chair of Veni Apwann, a capacity building NGO. He has a Bachelor of Science in Government and International Relations, a professional certificate in International Trade Policy, a Post-graduate diploma in University Teaching and Learning, a Master of Science in Government and is presently being examined for his PhD in Government specialising in anti-corruption.