February 9, 2007

 AMAN Conducts a Training Workshop in Jericho on Teaching Integrity to Youth for UNRWA Teachers

 As part of the Anti-Corruption Training Program Activities, AMAN had organized a two-days training workshop for 32 teachers and educationalists from UNRWA schools on teaching integrity to youth. Participants in the training called for creating an effective and efficient partnership between civil society institutions and government institutions in combating corruption and in developing an anti-corruption value system among the youth generation.

 Participants stressed the importance of involving government and private schools in the different activities of the program in order to lay down a general unified approach towards teaching integrity to youth. They stressed the importance of such activities as means for encouraging their involvement in the combat against corruption and as a means for enforcing their capacity in teaching integrity and transparency to youth at schools.

 The aim of this program which is currently being implemented as a pilot program in cooperation with CHF International is to provide Palestinian youth with an understanding of corruption and how to combat it through transparency, accountability, and integrity.

 Three training workshops were conducted so far and targeted teachers from private and UNRWA schools.

 Future program activities will include conducting further training workshops to cover a wider range of teachers in the West Bank and Gaza, educational activities inside schools, participation in around 100 summer camps, developing a university course on the national integrity system, and developing AMAN’s resource center.