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International Programs
Bringing Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption Workshops to USAID Missions Worldwide
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C&A’s Mainstreaming Team in Uganda |
Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A) leads workshops on Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption at USAID Missions throughout the world. Beginning in Central America with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, C&A has gone on to bring the Mainstreaming message to the Dominican Republic, the Ukraine and missions in Africa including Senegal, Rwanda, Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, Guinea, Mali and Madagascar.
The objectives of the workshops are to deepen the USAID Mission and U.S. Embassy staffs’ understanding of corruption, its countless manifestations and increase their capacity to plan and implement cross-sectoral anti-corruption programming. Each workshop is targeted to reach a shared understanding about the most important corruption problems in that specific country and identify how these problems affect the implementation of USAID programs and goals. We also seek to devise strategies for mainstreaming anti-corruption thinking and activities within the Mission and its programs, utilizing anti-corruption approaches and tools most appropriate for the country’s context. Country-specific strategies may also include tools and programmatic interventions for working with civil society and the media to increase the demand for accountability and transparency.
Several missions have requested and received short-term technical assistance as a follow up to a Mainstreaming Workshop. The Rwanda Mission, for example, conducted a workshop specifically for the Health Team. Targeted follow up technical assistance can enhance integration of anti-corruption activities into existing and future programming.
C&A holds USAID contracts for Mainstreaming in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Eurasia.