The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom held a workshop entitled ‘Anti-Corruption: Tools and Strategies’ over a period of two days, in which a number of members from the Jordanian Transparency Group, a group that emerged from the social networking sites Facebook, participated in it aimed at raising awareness about the importance of fighting corruption and activating Participation of youth in developing realistic solutions to the most prominent challenges in this regard

The two-day workshop included an introduction by the host institution represented by Mr. Ralph Arbel, the Foundation’s resident representative in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Dr. Said Issa, an expert in anti-corruption at the Lebanese Transparency Association, gave an overview of his experience, program and objectives of the workshop. The workshop also included the most important axes: areas of corruption, its forms and means of combating corruption, in addition to how to build alliances and plans to combat corruption 

The Lebanese expert, Dr. Saeed Issa, and the media personality, Mr. Jalal Zaki, the communications marketing expert in Egypt, trained on the axes mentioned and facilitated about the groups.

The workshop was attended by 36 participants from different social and cultural backgrounds and from different age groups. The workshop concluded with the need to follow scientific and practical methods and rely on international standards in combating corruption and promoting good governance and the need to develop cooperation mechanisms with institutions concerned with combating corruption in the Kingdom and the need to stay away from repeating rumors, and verify From any news or news related to suspicion of corruption here or there, spreading the concept of good governance in the public, private and mixed sectors, the necessity of involving civil society institutions in strategies to combat corruption in all its forms and at its various levels, and activating the texts of the United Nations Convention against Corruption and implementing its provisions. 

At the end of the workshop, the participants stressed the importance of organizing awareness-raising and educational workshops for various segments of Jordanian society in order to combat corruption and remedial it and to achieve justice by not exploiting the job for personal interest, not interfering in judicial affairs by politicians or social elites, and punishing the perpetrators of the crime of corruption, with the participation of the community Civilian in Jordan

The activist in the field of promoting transparency and rational governance, Ms. Hilda Shafeeq Ajeilat, thanked the Foundation for hosting the training workshop and its organizers and circulating the benefit to the participants.