Weak governance and corruption divert public resources from health, education and infrastructure, deter investment and undermine the legitimacy of the state. Across Africa, governments, oversight bodies and development partners have invested heavily in anti-corruption agencies, audit institutions and transparency reforms, yet results depend on whether these institutions work together and whether the law is applied consistently to everyone.

The Good Governance, Rule of Law, and Anti-Corruption Strategies Training Course gives participants a structured way to diagnose governance weaknesses and respond to them. It starts with the principles of accountable, transparent and participatory government and the meaning of the rule of law in practice, then looks at the institutions that hold power to account. The middle of the week is devoted to the forms and drivers of corruption, risk assessment methods and preventive tools such as integrity plans, disclosure regimes and safeguards in public procurement. The final day addresses investigation, enforcement, international cooperation and the design of a reform strategy that is politically and administratively realistic.

Participants learn through comparative case studies, group diagnostics of a model public institution and structured debate on reform trade-offs. Each participant completes a corruption risk assessment and a short anti-corruption action plan for an organisation they know.

The programme prepares participants to:

• Explain the core principles of good governance and how the rule of law operates in practice.
• Assess the effectiveness of oversight bodies, including audit institutions, parliaments, courts and anti-corruption agencies.
• Analyse the forms, drivers and consequences of corruption in the public and private sectors.
• Conduct a corruption risk assessment for a public institution or programme.
• Design preventive measures such as codes of conduct, conflict of interest rules and asset declaration systems.
• Apply transparency tools including access to information, open contracting and beneficial ownership disclosure.
• Evaluate enforcement, asset recovery and international cooperation options under UNCAC.
• Develop a sequenced anti-corruption strategy with clear accountability for delivery.

It is intended for people who build, oversee or reform public institutions, such as:

• Officers of anti-corruption commissions and ethics bodies
• Auditors in supreme audit institutions and internal audit units
• Prosecutors, investigators and judicial officers
• Parliamentary clerks and committee researchers
• Senior civil servants and heads of human resources in government
• Public procurement and accounting officers
• Governance and rule of law advisers in development agencies and NGOs
• Compliance and integrity officers in state corporations
• Civil society and media professionals working on accountability

Participants go home with:

• A completed corruption risk assessment for a chosen institution or process.
• A governance diagnostic checklist covering transparency, accountability and participation.
• Model provisions for a conflict of interest and gifts policy.
• A map of the oversight and enforcement actors relevant to their own country.
• A sequenced anti-corruption action plan with indicators for tracking progress.

Sessions mix analysis with practice, using:

• Comparative case studies of reform successes and setbacks across regions
• Group diagnostics of a model ministry facing integrity problems
• Structured debates on contested reform choices
• Risk assessment templates applied in facilitated workshops
• Peer review of each participant's draft action plan

On completing all five days, including the risk assessment and action planning exercises, participants are awarded a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.