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.

Prevention as a differentiating element. The AVAF in the III Conference on Open Government held by the Government of the Canary Islands

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The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) has been present at the III Open Government Conference held by the Government of the Canary Islands, held on December 1 and 2 in Jameos del Agua (Lanzarote).

Víctor Almonacid, director of Prevention, Training and Documentation, has been the representative of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at the conference “Open Government on the stage of the 2030 Agenda”.

“Ethical values for a new governance: from theory to practice” was the table in which the director of Prevention, Training and Documentation highlighted prevention as a differentiating element of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency compared to reactive institutions that act when the irregularities and fraud have already occurred in the public administration.

The commitment to public integrity for the execution of all public funds

Rafael Rubio, professor of Constitutional Law at the Complutense University and counselor of the Council for Transparency and Participation of the Community of Madrid, participated in this table, as well as María Méndez, coordinator of the Anti-Fraud Measures Plan working group of the General Subdirectorate of the Government Recovery and Resilience Mechanism. of the Canary Islands

The table was moderated by Pedro Pacheco, president of the Canary Islands Audit Court, who pointed out that the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency is “the most advanced and the one that leads” the regional offices and agencies in terms of prevention and fight against fraud and corruption.

The meeting “Open Government on the stage of the 2030 Agenda” brought together representatives of the Open Government Alliance (OGP), the Presidency of the Government of Spain, the Council for Transparency and Participation of the Community of Madrid, the Network of Local Entities for the Transparency and Citizen Participation of the FEMP, the Transparency Council of Aragon, the Presidency of the Government of Navarra, as well as councils such as Castellón and Gipuzkoa and Canary Islands institutions such as the Canary Institute of Public Administration and the Canary Institute of Statistics (ISTAC) among others.

The closure was carried out by Clara Mapelli, General Director of Public Governance. Ministry of Finance and Public Function of the Government of Spain.

We share below the viewing of the table “Ethical values for a new governance: from theory to practice” III Conference on Open Government of the Canary Islands “Open Government on the stage of the 2030 Agenda”

The DocuforumAVAF “Conflicts of interest and public integrity” for the first time at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón

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Castellón.- November 29, 2022

The longest training activity of those carried out by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, the #DocuforumAVAF, goes a step further in its evolution and the documentary “Conflicts of interest and public integrity” joins the training experiences offered to Valencian universities.

If until now “Corruption: Harmful Organism” on Pandora Box TV was the documentary that was seen, preferentially, in the #DocuForumAVAF activities, now it is also available to those university professors who request it, the possibility of reflecting in the classroom on the administrative situation of the “conflict of interest”.

This documentary was produced by the TAU of the University of Valencia as a result of the AVAF recommendation “Reflections on conflicts of interest: ignorance is the prelude to corruption”

On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the first two #DocuforumsAVAF “Conflicts of interest and public integrity” were held at the Jaume I University of Castelló, with almost 80 students participating in the degrees of Law and ADE and Law thanks to the Collaboration with Professor Jaime Clemente, from the Department of Constitutional Law.

The first of them took place with the students of the second year of the ADE and Law degree. The 24 university students had the opportunity to reflect on the situation that can occur in the public administration related to conflict of interest and learn about the prevention work carried out by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

In the second of the DocuforumAVAF, held that same day at the Universitat Jaume I, 55 university students from the second year of Law participated in the subject “Constitutional Organization of the State”. Throughout the debate, the students were interested in the institutional and regulatory mechanisms that are being developed to prevent conflicts of interest from leading to a situation of fraud or corruption.

The designed #DocuforumAVAF activity “Conflicts of interest and public integrity” is carried out in a single session in the classroom, with the students and facilitated by personnel from the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency. On this occasion, Pilar Moreno, a training technician from the AVAF, dynamized both docuforums, using gamification tools in the classroom for a greater participation of the attendees.

If you are a university or high school teacher in the Valencian Community and you are interested in having the #DocuforumAVAF training activity “Corruption, harmful organism” or ““Conflicts of interest and public integrity” take place in your classroom, do not hesitate to contact the training service of the Valencian Antifraud Agency through formacion@antifraucv.es