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A previous successful experience
AMAN raised a pilot university course entitled "integrity,
transparency and accountability in the face of corruption"
which has been adopted for teaching at Birzeit University
since the beginning of 2007 until now. In 2009, the Islamic
University in Gaza
also adopted the course in its academic plan 2009-2010. This
led to a successful experience in raising awareness of the
younger generations of anti-corruption issues.
And
in order to disseminate this experience to other universities and not
restricting it to two universities, AMAN set out a campaign to different
universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as to adopt the course in
their future academics plans and to encourage them to participate
effectively in the national efforts in fighting corruption. And that
relies on our faith of the importance of the major role that education
plays in raising awareness and building an anti-corruption cultural
community.
Excellent Rating/Evaluation
Different assessments were made by Birzeit University and AMAN
institution confirmed that a broad registration and a wide positive
reaction appeared among the university students to join the course. As
the number of students enrolled for the course increased by 12% since
2007. What reinforces this level of consciousness among the students to
fight corruption is their intension to discuss one of the corruption
topics in the Palestinian society and how to confront it in their
graduation thesis, considering AMAN institution as their reference in
this field. Whereas AMAN had supervised several research and
undergraduate projects and masters thesis.
Adoption of the course by new universities
Recently this course had been officially adopted by three universities:
the Arab American University in Jenin, Hebron University and Jerusalem
University. Whereas Al-Azhar University and Al-Aqsa University in Gaza
gave their initial approval.
This course will be raised and taught to start by the beginning of the
next semester in 2010-2011.
The Aim is to raise awareness against corruption
This course aims to explain the conceptual framework relating to
corruption of the young Palestinian generation and to provide them with
a full comprehensive view of the reality of corruption and its
manifestations, causes and effects on Palestinian society, as well as
providing analysis of the legislative system, policy and institutional
related, and it is also interested in the ways of counteraction and that
is by strengthening the system of transparency, accountability and
integrity, In recognition from AMAN that the Palestinian educational
system is capable of confronting corruption through building an
anti-corruption general culture.
We seek to raise awareness of younger generations through this course
considering them as the future leaders and stimulate their sense of
national belonging and awareness of corruption and its dangers further
more, we seek in providing them with the values of integrity and
principles of transparency and accountability systems.
And
we emphasize that the future of the Palestinian state must be based on
the rule of law and independent judicial system and good governance.
In other words, such a course works on motivating young people to
participate effectively in the preventive and corrective activities
against corruption to create a promising future for them, a future free
of corruption and full of hope.
and it is worth to mention that this project that aims to develop the
course and circulate it to the rest of the universities is financed by
the National Endowment for Democracy NED.
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