Objective: Improve institutional quality. The AVAF course for the PAS staff of the University of Valencia on risk prevention in public management concludes.

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The last session of the course “Prevention of corruption in public management”, prepared by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, in collaboration with the University of Valencia, was given by Anselm Bodoque, head of the AVAF Training Service.

“The cost of corruption and public policies against corruption in Europe and Spain”, the title of the presentation, made it possible to share reflections on the various aspects of the negative effects of fraud and the general interest.

Excessive public spending, the reduction of public investment in essential services, the exclusion of innovative and honest companies or permissiveness in the face of tax fraud were some of the negative effects that were exposed in the session on corruption in public management on the 9 March 2022.

During the conference, it was stressed that fraud also implies economic and reputational costs for society, for public management, the legitimacy of institutions and collective well-being.

The second part of the conference focused on the study of the configuration process of public policies against corruption in Europe, Spain, and the Valencian Community.

The temporal origin can be placed around 1990, in the context of the III Industrial and Technological Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall and globalization. The OECD, the EU, the Council of Europe and the UN are the first international organizations that promote conventions, agreements or organizations to combat corruption.

The beginning of public policies on corruption at the international and European levels put the accent on the fight against organized crime, political corruption, and the legal and police persecution of the corrupt. In the session, it was insisted on the fact that Spain does not have a general strategy to prevent and fight against corruption, such as the one that has been developed in the Valencian Community since 2015, which has incorporated initiatives aimed at improving institutional quality.

The session highlighted that it is precisely on improving the general institutional quality that initiatives should be concentrated to reduce our level of corruption and place it at the levels of the most advanced countries in Europe. In fact, countries with lower rates of corruption base their position on having a strong, democratic and socially legitimate institutional system and allocate fewer resources to the legal, regulatory and police prosecution of corruption.

Throughout five weeks, the managers of the PAS staff of the University of Valencia have actively participated in the sessions where the existence of the institutional system of integrity in our country, the necessary integrity plans in public organizations, the phases of the anti-fraud cycle of Order 1030/2021 of September 29, as well as the costs of corruption in the public sphere.

Along with the lectures given, the attendees were the protagonists of a practical session where they had the opportunity to reflect on the protection of corruption whistleblowers, the necessary implementation of internal and external reporting channels, the importance of informal alerts, and the strategic vision of planning as a tool to combat irregularities and risks known to public administrations.

The AVAF appreciates the predisposition of collaboration and support of the Permanent Training and Educational Innovation Service (SFPIE) and its interest in the work of the Agency in matters of public integrity.

Corruption in public administrations to debate in the AVAF and SFPIE course of the University of Valencia.

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On March 2, the fourth of the sessions of the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” took place for the PAS staff of the University of Valencia. It was of a practical nature.

The format of the session was that of a workshop that combined docu-forums, questions, debate and collective reflection, in which the students participated very actively throughout the day. The session was developed by the technical team of the AVAF Training Service, formed by Anselm Bodoque, Marita Oliver and Pilar Moreno.

“Corruption: a harmful organism”, the Pandora Box documentary, produced through crowdfunding, was viewed by the attendees, who were very interested in situations such as the one reflected in the section “The Solitude of the Financial Controller” and in the experiences of whistleblowers of known cases of corruption.

Throughout the session, the students’ reflections were channeled through gamification tools that allowed ordering participation and contributed to multiplying the responses and views of the problems raised anonymously.

The creation of “a game of random glances” was one of the outstanding phrases of the documentary that included the presentation given by Cristina Fernández González, a researcher on the protection of whistleblowers at the University of Salamanca, who participated in the workshop with a presentation that she had title Detection or prevention of risks?

In his speech, through a criminological approach, he exposed the importance of informal surveillance that generates a preventive work environment and alerts that does not exclude formal surveillance, and that can generate stronger institutions and an effective organizational and prevention culture. .

The docuforum “Planning of public management: a tool of good governance” prepared by the TAU of the University of Valencia, in collaboration with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, and the Vice-rectorate for Territorial Projection and Society of the UV was the second of the documentaries viewed by PAS staff selected to participate in the course.

The joint reflection after the documentary made it possible to highlight the importance of planning in public administration, since it allows taking conscious measures with a strategic vision, organizing resources and avoiding waste, as well as better accountability.

Download the general recommendation Planning: a key tool to prevent the risks of corruption in organizations.

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The collaboration between UNISOCIETAT and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency returns in 2022

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“The fight against corruption” was the conference given by the Professor of Criminal Law, José Luis González Cussac, in the first of the sessions held in 2022 within the UNISOCIETAT program in collaboration with the AVAF.

Last Thursday, February 24, Riba-roja de Túria hosted this conference where Professor González Cussac highlighted the work of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, stating that “thanks to the AVAF we are a benchmark in measures to prevent corrupt conduct” The session highlighted that corruption has been a historical constant, with a multiplicity of causes, factors and authors.

Defined by González Cussac as “the abuse of power or incorrectness in the decision-making process in exchange for an undue incentive or advantage”, corruption “is not a crime without victims”, since the main victims of these behaviors are society in general and the most vulnerable groups more intensely.

The work of the Agency in terms of social awareness in collective ethics and the eradication of fraud and corruption materialized in the presentation of the Professor of Criminal Law, actively followed by 17 people, who carried out multiple questions at the end of the conference.

The independence of the judiciary and the lack of resources that the courts lack to prosecute crimes related to fraud and corruption were some of the issues raised by the attendees.

The fact that corruption threatens the stability of the West and undermines the democratic rule of law was the final conclusion of the first of the UNISOCIETAT conferences in which AVAF has participated in 2022.

The next session of the program in which the Valencian Antifraud Agency will collaborate will take place in Ontinyent on Thursday, April 7.

In collaboration with the Vice President for Territorial Projection and Society of the University of Valencia, the AVAF is carrying out training activities on the prevention of fraud and corruption. Among those that stand out are the specific conferences aimed at public employees, university students and citizens in general, as well as the UNISOCIETAT conferences. All this, with the aim of bringing the culture of integrity closer to the students of the program of the University of Valencia.