#DocuforumAVAF begins the year 2023 in the 1st year of high school classrooms of the Colegio Maristas de Algemesí (Valencia) with “Corruption: harmful organism”

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Algemesi. – January 16, 2023.

The #DocuforumAVAF training activity began in 2023 in the town of Algemesí, in the Ribera Alta region.

The Agency’s learning experience consists of several phases and aims to make students reflect on strategies to combat fraud and corruption in society, paying special attention to the need to protect people who report corruption.

The students of the 1st year of high school of the Nuestra Señora de la Salut – Maristas de Algemesí School had the opportunity to see the documentary “Corruption: harmful organism” on Pandora Box TV, in a first session with their teachers and warn of the retaliation against those who are subjected to corruption whistleblowers.

Last Monday, January 16, in a second session carried out in the classroom by the training technician Pilar Moreno, the students were able to resolve their doubts and questions regarding the daily risks faced by people who report and how corruption is prevented and pursued.

The figure of the controllers of the local administration, the conflict of interest, the anti-corruption agencies or what younger people can do to avoid fraud and corruption, were some of the issues raised and debated by those present at the activity.

The Valencian Antifraud Agency through #DocuforumAVAF has the opportunity to show in the classrooms of schools, institutes and universities throughout the Valencian Community, its objectives, functions and present and future challenges in matters such as public integrity, prevention and protection from whistleblowers of corruption. Gamification in the classroom is used in this training activity to stimulate debate and student participation.

In the docuforum on January 16 in Algemesí, 55 were the participants, including students from the Erasmus Plus program who had recently arrived from Norway. During the session there was the opportunity to compare the data on the perception of corruption in Norway and Spain, thanks to data from Transparency International, as well as the democratic quality index of the University of Gothenburg. The differences between the two countries were notable, which surprised those present.

If you are a university or high school teacher in the Valencian Community and you are interested in having the training activity “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your classroom, do not hesitate to contact the training service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at via training@antifraucv.es

From strict compliance with the law to the development of a culture of public ethics. The AVAF in the CNIS 2022.

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The director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Víctor Almonacid Lamelas, participated in the 2022 Congress of Innovation and Public Services with a presentation at the La Nave auditorium (Madrid) , on December 13, 2022.

Corruption as a problem-generating phenomenon for the quality of democratic institutions and the stability and security of society was the beginning of Víctor Almonacid’s presentation “From strict compliance with the law to the development of a culture of public ethics.”

The main room of the CNIS hosted the exhibition that showed corruption as a real and permanent risk in the exercise of public powers, as well as the need to implement a public integrity strategy, the first step of which is the identification of risks.

The Director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency stressed that not identifying and not managing corruption risks increases the chances that a manager or public servant will carry out or tolerate conduct contrary to integrity and public ethics.

Together with preventive mechanisms, integrity frameworks minimize the contingency of risks contrary to integrity.

The opportunity to promote integrity in public administrations has come from the European Union and its concern about how the budget is managed.

The integrity frameworks that develop anti-fraud plans require the involvement of government bodies, as well as information and training at all levels of the organization. The complaints channels (internal and external) are part of the integrity system along with the necessary self-diagnosis of the institution and self-assessment of risks. Codes of ethics or conduct together with IC detection and control measures and internal control close the circle of the necessary integrity frameworks for public administration.

The opportunity to promote integrity in public administrations has come from the European Union and its concern about how the budget is managed.

The event, of a national character, brought together 800 participants, public employees of the local, regional and state administration, of the most varied profiles, experts in electronic administration, data protection, innovation, open data, contracting, transparency and accountability, among others.

We want to thank everyone present in the auditorium and the CNIS organization for their interest in the culture of public integrity, since only with their help can progress be made in the transformation of public administration.

The AVAF, a consolidated strategy of public integrity in the National Congress of Innovation and Public Services 2022

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Madrid, December 13, 2022

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has participated in the CNIS 2022 that took place in La Nave (Madrid) on December 13 and 14, 2022.

The AVAF was present on the first day of the congress with the discussion table “Valencian Antifraud Agency, a consolidated strategy of public integrity”, where the three organizational directions of the Agency were represented.

Anselm Bodoque Arribas, head of the Training Service, was the moderator of a table in which around 60 people shared with the public, the work carried out by the departments of Analysis and Investigation, Legal Affairs and Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Agency to consolidate integrity in public administration.

Internal complaint channels, the AVAF complaint mailbox and its importance were the focus of the intervention of Miguel Furió Ferri, head of the Analysis and Investigation service, of the Directorate of the same name. During the round table, the need to define the interrelation mechanisms between the complainants and the Agency was stressed, as well as the characteristics of the complaint channels and complaint management procedures.

The Directorate of Legal Affairs, led by Juan Vega Felgueroso, a lawyer for the Agency, explained the work in terms of protection of corruption whistleblowers and legal advice carried out by the AVAF. The Agency’s lawyer highlighted the paradigm shift brought about by Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report violations of Union Law and the bill that will transpose said directive. And in the debate, the emphasis was placed on the fact that all public administrations should soon have internal and external alert channels.

Integrity -as the driving force behind the transformation of public administration- marked the presentation by Pilar Moreno García, a training technician from the AVAF Prevention, Training and Documentation Department. Through the catalog of AVAF publications, guides and recommendations , public employees and citizens in general can access documents to promote this organizational change.

The training actions developed by the Training Service aimed at personnel at the service of public administrations, university students, children and adolescents and organized civil society is the second key to advancing in public integrity.

During the debate, the need for effective communication on the prevention of corruption was also stressed to publicize the multiple resources available to the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at www.antifraucv.es

From here we want to thank all those attending the discussion table of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at the CNIS 2022 for their presence, as well as the organization of the congress for their interest in allowing the AVAF to share their experience in matters of public integrity.