EAPAA

European Association for Public Administration Accreditation

UNPAN

NISPAcee serves as a regional center of UNPAN www.unpan.org

EVENTS from Other Institutions

  Submit Events

March 21 - March 22, 2024
Recent Trends in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the EU

March 21 - March 21, 2024
EPSA 2023-24 Award Ceremony

April 17 - April 19, 2024
Performance Audit degli investimenti co-finanziati dal budget UE: l’approccio della Corte dei Conti

April 18 - April 19, 2024
Knowledge Management in Public Sector Organisations

April 23 - April 26, 2024
New Structural Funds Programmes and the New Regulations 2021-2027

May 22 - May 24, 2024
Financial Management and Audit of EU Structural Funds, 2021-2027

May 22 - May 24, 2024
CAF Success Decoded: Leadership Commitment and Agile Management

May 23 - May 28, 2024
Ex-post Regulatory Evaluations

May 23 - May 30, 2024
Regulatory Impact Assessments

June 4 - June 6, 2024
Monitoring and Evaluation of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds programmes, 2021-2027

  view more...

Other NEWS

Central European Public Administration Review accepted for inclusion in Scopus

Central European Public Administration Review - new issue has been published

Call for applications for Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance MA programme

UNPAN Partners’ Newsletter July – August – September 2023

INVITATION:KosovaPAR2023 Conference on PAR for an Agile and Resilient Governance

DPIDG/DESA and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) Handbook for Auditors

CEPAR new issue Vol 21 No1 (2023)

Call for papers for EGPA 2023 Conference, Zagreb, Croatia, 5-7 September 2023

Freedom House NEW REPORT: Global Freedom Declines for 17th Consecutive Year

Call for PIONEER (Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance) application

EVENTS from Other Institutions

IASIA Regional Conference "Corruption, Ethics and Culture in Public Administration"

April 24, 2019 - April 25, 2019


Venue: Kaunas, Lithuania

Organizer(s): The International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA)
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU)

Language:

Contact: egle.vaidelyte@ktu.lt
b.dobra@iias-iisa.org

Info link: https://mailchi.mp/iias-iisa/deadline-extension-iasia-regional-conference-24-25-april-2019-kaunas-lithuania?e=0a651d4635

The conference will bring together practitioners, academics, PhD students and researchers in public administration and management, as well as contributors from any other disciplines who will exchange their research findings and insights from practical experience on the following theme ”Corruption, Ethics and Culture in Public Administration.”

Corruption is not a new phenomenon and is a term that has many meanings. Tiihonen argues that corruption “is commonly understood to be bribery, and accepting a bribe, and other unjustified influence, by giving and receiving benefits. A usual list of corrupt acts includes bribery, extorsion, influence peddling, nepotism, fraud, speed money, and embezzlement” (2003, p.51). Corruption is a phenomenon which undermines public governance and principles of responsible management, and therefore citizens’ life quality and well-being as well as their trust in public officials and institutions. Among others, effective enforcement of public values, institutional ethics and personal honesty and integrity inculcation are a means of containing corruption within acceptable limits (Caiden, 20012).

In the last decades, governments and international institutions and organizations have drafted and formally adopted standards of professional conduct, ethics codes and charters for individuals holding public office (CNFPT and IASIA, 20183). For instance, in 2001 the European Union has adopted “The European Code for Good Administrative Behavior”, and then in 2012,“ The Public service principles for the EU civil service” through the European Ombudsman; similarly in 2013 the United Nations have adopted the “Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, International Civil Service Commission”, and in 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals where Goal 16 focuses on institutions and several of its targets encouraging the fight against corruption and building effective and transparent institutions which serve the citizens.

Adopting legal frameworks and “soft laws” in the form of behavior standards at national and international level is crucial. Nevertheless, greater attention must be given to the implementation, monitoring and improvement processes.

Recent developments in politics at international level demonstrate that trust in government has declined. In many developing and developed countries public institutions are perceived as a corrupt environment. In this regard, public institutions must regain citizens’ trust by delivering high quality services and by upholding their high professional standards that include high ethical standards in their professional behavior.

In many countries there is a general belief that corruption is part of the human nature, that it is “in the blood,” whereas in others it is a matter of choice, rule of law, education and transmission from one generation to another of what is right and wrong (Caiden, Dwivedi and Jabbra, 2001, p. 54). Indeed, socio-cultural context plays an important role in fighting negative phenomena such as corruption. In practical terms, a system with a meritocratic bureaucracy and an administration concerned with accountability, transparency, openness and inclusion is much more effective in fighting corruption and, at the same time, in promoting high ethical standards and public values.

As corruption and ethical values are socio-cultural context sensitive, we call for contributions highlighting the role of different societal and political stakeholders in understanding and preventing corruptive practices and promoting ethics in public administration. In addition to macro level issues, organizational contexts which are successful in dealing with challenges to good public governance and implementing value-led management call for academic explorations and practical reflections.
The conference addresses the need for research-based evidence in respect of the relevance of citizen participation in public governance as well as the importance of moral decision-making to corruption prevention.

On-line payments

VISAMastercard
mastercardMaestroVISAVISA ElectronDiners club