OSCE Office prepares trainers to deliver anti-corruption courses in Tajik border academies

DUSHANBE, 17 December 2010 - A one-week course on anti-corruption awareness and response measures for Tajik border and law-enforcement training academies' staff concluded today in Dushanbe. 

Sixteen academic staff and officials from the Border Troops Academy, the Customs Institute, Academy of the State Committee on National Security and Police Academy, regional Border Troops training academies and the Agency for State Financial Control and Fight against Corruption took part in the course.

Participant learned how to deliver a course developed with the OSCE's support on anti-corruption awareness and response measures. The course uses interactive student-centered teaching methods, and involves the preparation and delivery of lessons by the participants themselves.

"By building training academies' capacity to teach future officers about anti-corruption awareness, this course addressed one of the main challenges for Tajikistan's border and law-enforcement agencies. Training and awareness-raising are key elements in combating corruption," said Ambassador Ivar Vikki, the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.

The Course participant Leutenant-Colonel Idibek Sobirov of the Agency for Fight against Corruption, added: "The active participation of representatives of different educational institutes shows that agencies realise the need to work together against common threats such as corruption. One way of achieving better co-operation is through inter-agency training courses, such as the one we have taken, and joint curriculum development."

The course was led by an anti-corruption training expert from the Lithuanian Interior Ministry's State Border Guard Service.