Our Objectives
Consistent with the sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly Goal no. 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) Targets 16.5 (Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms) and 16.6 (Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels), the objectives of the ACEC are to:
1. Support the public and private sector institutions and other organisations through the provision of robust corporate solutions in the form of training, policy advice and development as well as creation of sector-specific anti-corruption frameworks for the purpose of preventing and dealing with corruption in order to ensure that institutions are able to:
• acquire new ideas on tackling corruption as a development problem
• improve the capacity to deal with possible incidences of corruption proactively internally by strengthening such values as ethics, integrity, transparency and accountability in human resources;
• become better prepared in addressing corruption proactively within the business dealings, development work and service delivery.
2. Design and implement corruption prevention capacity development programmes to empower institutions to understand, prevent and identify corruption proactively through:
• institutionalization and implementation of anti-corruption measures
• anti-corruption education/training
• promotion of anti-corruption strategies and tools, and;
• providing anti-corruption advice.
3. Render guidance to governments and the private sector on how to promote good governance and mainstream anti-corruption into their works to achieve sustainable development (goals) by 2030,
4. Disseminate best practices of business ethics that can promote integrity in order to eradicate corruption to foster sustainable development, and;
5. Strengthen the capacity of employees and leaders across sectors through training in other fields critical to growing sustainable institutions including but not limited to:
• Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into the workplace
• Supervisory management, and;
• Customer care and relationships management