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In
2007, AMAN developed a university course entitled: “Integrity,
Transparency and Accountability in combating corruption” in
collaboration with Birzeit University and a number of academics and
Palestinian experts. The curriculum aims at enabling Palestinian youth
to recognize the efforts of combating corruption through the theoretical
and practical knowledge as well as through identifying the conceptual
framework of the integrity system, transparency and accountability. This
is perceived as an attempt to enhance the capacity of higher education
to effectively contribute to the building of a Palestinian national
integrity. The course has already been offered as a pilot phase at two
universities in Palestine, namely, Birzeit University in the West Bank
where the entire book was studied over a period of four semesters and at
the Islamic University in Gaza. Both universities adopted the book and
incorporated it in their curricula either as a university requirement
for students of the public administration at Birzeit University, or as a
pilot stage for the students at the Islamic University.
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At
the end of 2009, AMAN and in cooperation with the National Endowment for
Democracy adopted the project "Combating Corruption through Education"
and performed a comprehensive evaluation for the book by an educational
expert. Then AMAN with a number of local experts started revising and
developing the reference book. Moreover, an instruction manual has been
developed for teachers, where it offers a range of methods and tools,
exercises, and case studies to enable teachers to offer the full content
efficiently and to render a maximum benefit. In addition to Birzeit
University and the Islamic University, three universities in the West
Bank have adopted the course, namely, Al-Quds University / Abu Deis, The
Arab American University / Jenin and Hebron University / Hebron.
Several new and necessary arrangements have been made in a way to adopt
this course at other universities in the Gaza Strip in addition to the
Islamic University.
In
this regard, the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity "AMAN" held
a press conference to launch a campaign for the sake of adopting the
reference book to be taught in the fall semester of the academic year
2010/2011 where cooperation agreements between the concerned
universities and “AMAN" were signed. AMANs’ Board Chairperson Dr Hanan
Ashrawi, its commissioner for Combating Corruption Dr. Azmi Shuaibi and
its Executive Director were at the conference.
Dr. Shuaibi reviewed AMANs’ vision and philosophy and explained the need
of this book for university students. A representative of BirZeit
University also reviewed the university’s experience in teaching the
book in the public administration department. Moreover, the three
university representatives also gave a short speech about adopting the
course and finally the cooperation agreements were signed.
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