On 3 March 2022 in the framework of Central Asia Rule of Law Programme the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) held a coordination meeting with the representatives of the Anti-Corruption Agency and representatives of the Academy of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan to discuss the content of an E-learning course for public officials in the field of corruption risk assessment in the public and private sectors.

The meeting was organised with the aim to present the content of the e-learning course developed by the Council of Europe and coordinate final adjustments and improvements to streamline the content to the existing institutional needs in Uzbekistan.

The proposed e-course aims to provide practical guidance in conducting an anti-corruption risk assessment within public and private institutions and provide participants with thorough knowledge of effective corruption risk assessment. The training programme will also help trainees to understand how various institutional anticorruption programmes and controls are working together, and their effect on risks. The course takes into consideration the internal Methodology on Corruption Risk Assessment in state bodies and organisations, their territorial and substructural subdivisions, recently adopted in Uzbekistan. The content of the course was drafted for later use as e-learning course, either self-paced or instructor/tutor-led.

This activity is organised in partnership with the General Prosecutor’s Office and Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

This activity was organised in the framework of the project “Promoting Transparency and Action against Economic Crime” within the Central Asia Rule of Law Programme 2020-2023, which is a joint initiative co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the latter. The project is aimed at strengthening capacities to fight and prevent economic crime in five Central Asian countries, including Uzbekistan.