Fighting Corruption and Fraud through Collective Action, Education and Training (Towards a Transparent Economy)

Mission

Enhance students’ knowledge on transparency and combating corruption in Egypt

Goals

The aim of this project is to raise awareness, organise extracurricular activities and to create curricula for enhancing the knowledge on transparency and combating corruption among faculty students.

Stakeholders

The project was implemented by the Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science of Cairo University with funidng from the Siemens Integrity Initiative.

Activities

The project’s main activities inlcuded:

• Raising awareness of students and the general public on indicators for measuring transparency, and the importance and means of combating corruption;
• Educating students on the benefits of disclosing and sharing information, and the best means of doing this, in light of international best practices;
• Conducting student research competitions on anti-corruption;
• Integrating knowledge about corruption and transparency in academic curricula;
• Training academic professionals on how to teach these new concepts.