Kuwait established the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) in 2016 with a mandate to cooperate with educational institutions in the field of combatting corruption, by:
- Assisting them in setting up a mechanism to combat corruption and achieve transparency among workers in educational institutions and work to achieve quality in education to meet desired integrity standards.
- Cooperating in designing training programmes for students to make them aware of the values of integrity and the importance of adhering to them and developing a culture of preserving public money and public utilities.
- Encouraging them to raise students’ awareness of the seriousness of the dangers of corruption
and students’ intolerance of it.
- Encouraging them to design pre-service or in-service rehabilitation programmes for teachers to raise awareness about the dangers of corruption and combating it.
One example of implementation is the assistance Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority provided in developing a course on anti-corruption legislation at the Faculty of Law at Kuwait University in coordination with Kuwait Transparency Society. This particular course was approved by the Faculty of Law of Kuwait University and launched in July 2020, providing specialized anti-corruption training for soon-to-be lawyers.
Source: Response to the UNODC questionnaire on good practices, practical examples and lessons learned on the engagement of the private sector and the use of sanctions and incentives to strengthen business integrity in the last decade: https://businessintegrity.unodc.org/bip/en/questionnaire-on-states- measures-for-business-integrity.html; https://www.nazaha.gov.kw/nazaha/
