Purpose

These seminars aim to reduce the risks of fraud and corruption in selected ADB-financed projects by increasing the understanding of and compliance with ADB's anticorruption policy and raising the awareness of potential irregularities throughout the project organizations implementing these projects.

The TA beneficiaries will better understand ADB's anticorruption policy and related procedures and be able to identify and address potential fraud and corruption in ADB-financed activities.

Objectives

• To increase awareness of integrity issues and ADB's anticorruption policy;
• To learn how to report allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, and coercion involving ADB-financed activities.
• To strengthen ability to identify red flags associated with integrity violations
• To encourage enhanced due diligence among ADB-financed activities.

Expected outputs

Participants have a better understanding of ADB's requirements and enforcement of the Anticorruption Policy.

Participants have increased awareness of the potential for fraud, corruption, collusion and coercion in ADB-financed activities.

Participants

Project staff of the following ADB projects in Uzbekistan:

• Loan 2466: Surkhandarya Water Supply and Sanitation Project
• Loan 2492-UZB: Water Resources Management Sector Project
• Loan 2564 - MFF Tranche 1, MFF: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program
• Talimarjan Clean Power Project
• Loan 2403-UZB: CAREC Regional Road Project
• Loan 2090-UZB: Woman and Child Health Development Project

Resource speaker

Ms. Genevieve Abel
Integrity Specialist, Office of Anticorruption and Integrity