The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency offers a workshop on the management of conflict of interest in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana

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Valencia, February 29, 2024.

The AVAF and the Generalitat have carried out a workshop-day on management of conflicts of interest between the managers of the Next Generation funds received in the Valencian Community and processed by the departments of the Generalitat.

Carolina Marin, director of European fund programs of the Second Vice Presidency and Department of Social Services, Equality and Housing of the Generalitat Valenciana and organizer of the session, welcomed the day.

In the first part of the day, Anselm Bodoque, head of the Agency’s Training Service, gave an insight into the institutional and public policy system to combat corruption developed in the Valencian Community.

Subsequently, Marita Oliver, technician from the Agency’s Training Service, explained the basic aspects of the information systems contemplated by Law 2/2023 and the experience of the AVAF as a reporting channel.

Finally, the workshop on conflicts of interest was facilitated by Pilar Moreno, AVAF training technician, and in which the Director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Agency, Irene Bravo, participated mainly.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has several publications on conflicts of interest, among which the following stand out:

The event was followed by more than 190 people (39 in person and 152 online) and allowed us to delve deeper into the proper management of conflict of interest, understood as the risk situation in which the impartial and objective exercise of the rights can be compromised. functions of the public employee for family, emotional reasons, political affinity, economic interest or for any other direct or indirect reason of personal interest.

The workshop has had the active participation and interest of public servants belonging to various Conselleries and entities of the Valencian instrumental public sector. At the same time, public employees from the municipalities of Castelló, Morella, Vall d’Uixò, Burjassot, Alberic, Gandía, Alberic, Enova, La Pobla de Vallbona, Aras de los Olmos, Picassent have also been present, virtually, Picanya, Altea, Sant Joan d’Alacant, Ibi, Oliva, Gata de Gorgos and Alcoi, belonging to the three provinces of the Valencian Community. Public employees from the cities of Melilla, Murcia, and Vilagarcía de Arousa also followed the training online.

For the second consecutive year, the Generalitat Valenciana and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency cooperate with the aim of increasing training in the face of red flags that may arise in the management of Next Generation funds. From the AVAF we would like to thank the Directorate of European Funds Programs of the Second Vice Presidency and the Ministry of Social Services, Equality and Housing for their invitation and their management in the organization of this workshop-day.

The El Campello City Council hosts the AVAF conference “Integrity, public ethics and fraud prevention in local administration”

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El Campello.- February 28, 2024 

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has visited the Alacantí region again, with the aim of collaborating in the training of Valencian local administrations.

Public employee personnel from the municipalities of El Campello, Sant Joan d’Alacant, Gata de Gorgos, Elda, Elche and Murcia have actively participated in the day given by the AVAF Training Service. The institutional welcome was given by Juanjo Berenguer, mayor of El Campello.

The four-hour day focused on the promotion of ethics and public integrity, as well as the prevention and detection of risks of fraud and corruption in local administration.

The attendees, 40 people (public employees and elected officials), had the opportunity to get closer to the Valencian regulatory and institutional framework regarding the fight against corruption in the intervention of Anselm Bodoque, head of the AVAF Training Service.

Pilar Moreno, training technician at the Agency, focused on the catalog of integrity risks in decision-making in the daily management of the local administration. The use of gamification tools made it possible to know that the risk that public employees believe should be taken more into account is the lack of planning in the daily management of the administration.

The developments and obligations entailed by the new state regulations regarding the protection of reporters of regulatory infractions, Law 2/2023, were presented by Marita Oliver, technician from the Training service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

The importance of proper management of the conflict of interest was discussed in the participatory workshop that closed the training day. The possibility of presentation of communications by natural and legal persons, as well as the difference between conflict of interest and corruption focused some of the participants’ participation in the session.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, with this new training, maintains its training presence in the province of Alicante. The Training Service appreciates the collaboration of the El Campello council in organizing the day.

If you wish to have specialized training in integrity and corruption prevention in your public administration, do not hesitate to write to formacion@antifraucv.es

The AVAF visits the IES Honori García in La Vall d’Uixó with #DocuforumAVAF

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Vall d’Uixó. – February 26, 2024

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency is present for the first time in an institute in the province of Castellón, specifically in the municipality of La Vall d’Uixó, with the #DocuforumAVAF activity.

With this new training action in schools and institutes of the Valencian Community in 2024, the AVAF continues to highlight the importance of integrating the fight against fraud and corruption in public administration in the debate of students who will soon become citizens in their own right.

The Honori García High School of Vall d’Uixó has been the first in the province of Castellón to participate in the #UnitedAgaintsCorruption celebration, which among other objectives aims to empower youth in matters of public integrity.

The protagonist of the learning experience has been the 31 students of the first year of high school in the subjects of “Economy” and “Democratic Culture” taught thanks to the collaboration of teacher Ivana Nevot Almansa.

After watching the documentary “Corruption: harmful organism” by Pandora Box TV in the classroom, the students expressed their doubts and questions about the issues raised in the documentary to be resolved by the AVAF staff who visited their classrooms.

Pilar Moreno García, AVAF training technician, in a second face-to-face session in the classroom, presented the work of the Agency and stimulated a debate around the doubts of those present on Monday, February 26.

The contributions of youth to the fight against corruption, as well as investigations by the AVAF and the figure of the interveners of the local administration, have been some of the doubts raised by the students of the IES Honori García de La Vall d’Uixó and answered by the Agency’s training technician.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency continues with the territorial expansion of its awareness and dissemination training actions, in schools and institutes of the Valencian Community in the 2023-2024 academic year, with the celebration of this #DocuforumAVAF in the province of Castellón.

If you are a university, high school or 4th year ESO teacher in the Valencian Community and 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 Antifraud Agency through formacion@antifraucv.es