The Palestinian Academy for Integrity – NAZAHA held a training course in its premises in Ramallah featuring 18 trainers from different Palestinian institutions. The 35-hour course was delivered over five days to train the trainers on the techniques and methods of modern training as an initial stage of this specialized training on integrity, which NAZAHA is all-out to set it in motion in the upcoming years.
Abeer Musleh, NAZAHA CEO, kicked off the course by underlining the crippling lack of professional and qualified trainers versed in integrity and public fund preservation. ‘This training serves as a cornerstone of the rationale behind the establishment of NAZAHA’ Musleh added, ‘The Academy seeks through its second strategic objective to train experts through a specialized training system and to develop the methods needed to have this mission complete.’
The training featured a group of trainers specialised in topics related to integrity, public funds preservation, and anti-corruption issues, local governance, public administration, law, education, media, investigative journalism, financial control, public procurement, general budgets, security, and civil society. Such an assortment contributed to a smooth and efficient exchange of information and experience among the participants.
For their part, participants stressed that this training gains an added importance for being the first of the kind in Palestine to fight corruption and push the current situation forward. The training is a result of focusing on the prevention of corruption, by enhancing the integrity and spreading knowledge among all the sections of society. Therefore, there is an urgent and continuous need for such training courses to enhance integrity, fight corruption, and safeguard public funds.
The Palestinian Academy for Integrity – NAZAHA is a new civil institution that offers professional education and training on integrity and public fund preservation.