The AVAF Training Service in the course Prevention of risks of corruption in public management for PAS personnel of the University of Valencia.

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The training technicians of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Marita Oliver and Pilar Moreno, gave the third session of the course that the AVAF is holding at the UV on February 23.

“The anti-corruption cycle” contained in Order HFP/1030/2021 of September 29, which configures the management system of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, focused on the theme of the module taught and put in the spotlight in the four phases that compose it: prevention, detection, correction and prosecution.

Pilar Moreno, in the first part of the session, insisted on the importance of integrity and control systems as the central axis of the first phase of the anti-fraud cycle: prevention. And, in the same way, he stopped at the need to enhance the preventive approach and promote a system of institutional integrity will be possible through the development of an ethical culture and the promotion of ethical values. Training and awareness must be present at all hierarchical levels, with the involvement of the organization’s authorities. Appropriate risk assessment mechanisms, training in public ethics and the proper use of data analysis will be tools to improve prevention in a broad sense.

Marita Oliver, for her part, explained the work carried out by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in the phases of detection, correction and prosecution in the anti-fraud cycle. The training technician explained the operation of the AVAF complaints mailbox (https://www.antifraucv.es/buzon-de-denuncias-2/), its characteristics and functionalities. He also explained the system of guarantees for the analysis process of the alerts received at the Agency, as well as the process of analysis and investigation of these.

The questions and reflections of the students referred to the existing risks in public contracting, as well as the necessary transparency in this area, emphasizing the conflict of interest in the field of contracting and management of selection processes and human resources contest.

The course, prepared by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, is managed by the Permanent Training and Educational Innovation Service (SFPIE) of the University of Valencia, is taught in 3-hour sessions in conference and debate format, and aims to generate interest, reflection and debate among students against fraud and corruption.

The Prevention Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency participates in the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” for PAS personnel of the University of Valencia.

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On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, Irene Bravo, head of the Prevention Service, was a speaker at the second session of the course organized by the Permanent Training and Educational Innovation Service (SFPIE) of the University of Valencia, prepared and taught by staff from the HVA.

The 35 people from the PAS management staff of the UV selected for this 15-hour course attended the module entitled “Fraud and corruption prevention initiatives in public management” in a participatory manner.

Throughout the session, Irene Bravo addressed the main public integrity frameworks developed by the prevention service, emphasizing the general recommendations of the Agency, the codes of ethics, the risk assessment methodology used and the risk catalogues, as well as as the latest materials available to any entity: the avaf guide on integrity plans and the visual didactic manual on conflicts of interest.

In turn, another of the functions of the service was explained, the presentation of allegations and amendments made to different regional regulations in the field of prevention.

The session allowed exposing the AVAF Guide: The Public Integrity Plan: Roadmap and Facilitating Annex. In this part of the training module, together with Irene Bravo, the Prevention technicians Teresa Gascó and Carmen Domínguez participated.

The regulation and need for the declaration of absence of conflict of interest (DACI) in matters of public contracting aroused interest on the part of the students. From the AVAF Prevention Service it was recommended throughout the session that the DACI should be used in all contracting procedures carried out, not only in those projects linked to European funds, taking into account what is established in Article 64 of the Public Sector Contract Law.

In turn, it was specified that the DACI must be required of all those involved in the contracting procedure regardless, for example, of whether the drafting of the projects has been outsourced.

The first day of this course was given by the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares. The next session will be given by Anselm Bodoque, head of the AVAF Training Service.

The Valencian Antifraud Agency advocates prevention and training as essential tools in generating a culture of integrity in public institutions. “

 

The director of the AVAF initiates the course «Prevention of risks of corruption in public management» for PAS personnel of the University of Valencia.

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On February 2, 2022, Joan Llinares inaugurated, together with Beatriz Gómez, Vice Manager of Economic and Services Coordination of the University of Valencia, the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” managed by the Permanent Training Service and Educational Innovation (SFPIE) of the University of Valencia.

The AVAF Training Service has prepared a 15-hour course, at the request of the university, in which, over five weeks, selected UV personnel will receive training on integrity, corruption prevention, control, the costs of corruption, among other matters.

The teachers who will teach the five modules that make up the course are part of the staff of the Agency’s Training, Prevention and Documentation Department.

The interest of the university’s SFPIE in providing quality training in integrity and public ethics to UV staff is highly relevant and is manifested through this collaboration with AVAF.

In this first day of training and reflection together with the public employees participating in the course of the University of Valencia, the director of the Agency has taught the module on the institutional system against corruption in Spain: the Agency for Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community: origin, functions and independence.

Prevention and training are the key tools in the fight against corruption and essential functions of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and where it focuses many of its efforts.

The responsibility of public employees, the need to plan in the field of contracting are some of the issues that have been present throughout the AVAF director’s conference.

33 people participate in this edition of the course, most of them technical personnel from the contracting services, legal advice, internal control office, among other services of the University of Valencia,

With this type of training activities, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency continues to fulfill one of its functions, collected at the headquarters of the 2016 creation law, training as fundamental components of the strategy to prevent corruption and improve integrity in the public sector.