Judicial sector / Southeast Asia youth / Call for proposals

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NEW PUBLICATION: Mapping anti-corruption tools in the judicial sector. This U4 Issue paper by Victoria Jennett, Sofie Arjon Schütte, and Philipp Jahn investigates whether and how the judicial sector could benefit from anti-corruption measures that have proved useful in other sectors in improving the quality of the services they provide to users.

Thank you to Sofie Arjon Schütte, PhD, Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
for sharing this information. Download the full paper at http://www.u4.no/publications/mapping-anti-corruption-tools-in-the-judicial-sector/

INFO: Southeast Asia Youth Video Contest on Anti-Corruption. The ASEAN CSR Network, the UNDP Global Anti-Corruption Initiative, and the Global Compact Network Singapore are inviting young people below 35 in the South East Asia Region to make a stand against corruption via a short video clip of up to 3 minutes.

Thank you to Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Project Coordinator,
ASEAN CSR NETWORK, for sharing this information. For more details, visit http://www.anti-corruption.org/index.php/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=493

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: South East Asia Prosperity Fund. The 2016 South East Asia Bidding Round for the United Kingdom’s Prosperity Fund is open for projects. Increasing the ability of partner countries to tackle corruption is one of the Fund’s priorities, together with improving the business climate, competitiveness and operation of markets, energy and financial sector reform, and other issues in South East Asia. Deadline for proposal: 27 March 2016.

Thank you to Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Project Coordinator,
ASEAN CSR NETWORK, for sharing this information. For more details, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/south-east-asia-prosperity-fund-call-for-project-proposals.


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