UNITAR Hiroshima Completes Workshop 1 of Law Enforcement Anti-Corruption Training Programme

UNITAR workshop on law enforecment anti-corruption in Senegal 9 November 2015, Dakar, Senegal – The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has successfully completed the first workshop of the UNITAR Law Enforcement Anti-Corruption Training Programme for the Sahel Region. The workshop was held between 2 and 6 November on Goree Island, Senegal, a UNESCO-designated negative World Heritage site which memorializes the slave trade.

Workshop I focused on anti-corruption and multi-stakeholder coalition building methodologies, with the participants engaging in a range of training activities including presentations, simulations, group work, role-playing after-action reviews and debriefs. The programme participants comprised 16 law enforcement professionals from eight different countries in the Sahel Region in Africa – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. Among the participants were judges, police officers, officials from the Ministry of Justice, and experts from the civil society.

The workshop was led by three expert anti-corruption Resource Persons –

Dr. Patrick Rafolisy, Director, IVORARY
Chantal Uwimana, Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East, Transparency International
Thierry Vircoulon, Project Director for Central Africa, International Crisis Group

With the conclusion of Workshop I, the participants will begin working on personal assignments and undertake several training modules before participating in Workshop II in February 2016 in Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan.

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