The 'Workshop on Corruption Risks and Anti-Corruption Strategies in Climate Aid – Good Governance towards Integrity, Transparency, and Accountability in Achieving Objectives of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation' will discuss: how to most effectively address corruption; and how anti-corruption efforts can be integrated into measures that achieve good governance in combating climate change, and ensuring transparent, efficient and accountable use of climate finance. This high-level and interactive workshop will present cases drawn from climate aid flows and corruption examples in climate aid in the Philippines. Trainers from the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, as well as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and staff from the German Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), will facilitate a training workshop. More specifically, the event aims to: develop a common understanding of corruption risks, causes and consequences in climate financial flows and uses, including regarding natural resource management; examine existing and potential anticorruption strategies to mitigate corruption risks in climate financing and in natural resource management; and formulate recommendations for mitigating corruption risk in the climate financing flows at country level, using the Philippines as a case study. The workshop is being organized by ADB, in collaboration with GIZ, the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, and in partnership with the Government of the Philippines' Office of the Ombudsman.
dates: 25-27 May 2015
venue: ADB headquarters
location: Manila, Philippines
contact: Claudia Buentjen
phone: +632 683 1852
www: http://www.adb.org/news/events/workshop-corruption-risks-and-anti-corruption-strategies-climate-aid