Dr. Azmi Shuaibi, AMAN Commissioner for Combating
Corruption; Dr. Abbas Abd-Al-Haq, member of AMAN Board of Trustees;
Mohammad Liftawi, and Jamileh Abed, project coordinators at AMAN
attended the 13th IACC and meetings held prior to the
conference.
The IACC conference was attended by more than
1300 people under the banner "Global Transparency: “fighting
corruption for a sustainable Future". They came from 135 countries
from the private, public and non-profit sectors from 30 October - 2
November 2008.
AMAN, in its capacity as a National Chapter for
Transparency International (TI), presented a total of five times
during the meetings, which took place prior to the conference. The
presentations were on good governance in NGOs (how to gain
credibility); AMAN’s experience in building a working relationship
with public institutions including the government; the code of
conduct for NGOs on transparency and accountability; implementing
the United Nations Convention against Corruption; and the national
integrity system study- currently conducted by AMAN. Attendees to
the presentations included individuals from TI chapter from the
Middle East and Africa region as well as other countries. AMAN also
held one workshop during the conference on security in the Arab
world.
The workshop, entitled “Security and Reform
Initiatives in the Arab World” was held on Nov.2nd during
the conference with more than 50 people attending from various
countries of the world. The panelist were from the Kwuait, Lebanon
and Palestine chapters. All three panelists presented papers on the
subject with Dr. Shuabi representing the Palestine chapter.
During the workshop, Dr. Azmi pointed out that the security
establishment in the Arab world is created mainly for the protection
of the ruling system/party and not for the protection of the
citizen. He also stated that the establishment does no succumb to
the rules, regulations, principals, criteria and procedures imposed
and followed by other public institutions. He also called on the
establishment to demystify the “secrecy” which surrounds its
administrative and financial actions by becoming more transparent
hence accountable to its public which will in turn reduce
opportunities for corruption
