Session

Topic

Brief Description

1

Detecting and Investigation Corruption: Introduction

• An introduction to Module topics, and discussion of what students are interested and what they would like to learn and why.

2

Detecting Corruption: Overview

• Why corruption can be difficult to detect
• Overview of the different (proactive and reactive) methods of detecting corruption.
• Why it is necessary to have more than one method of detection

3

Conditions of Detection: Audits

• Different kinds of audits, including their advantages, disadvantages, and optimal applications

4

Conditions of Detection: Open Data Charter

• The concept of Open Data Charters, including goals, objections to them, and current levels of adoption

5

Detection: Self-Reporting

• Why self-reporting is needed
• Difficulties and challenges

6

Detection: Public Surveys

• Parameters of public surveys
• Examples
• Advantages and limitations

7

Detection: Journalism and the Media

• Definition and examples
• Case study on the Mossack Fonseca Papers

8

Detection: Self-reporting and whistle-blower incentives

• The controversial subject of incentives, including arguments for and against incentives, examples, and current levels of adoption worldwide

9

Handling Reports of Corruption and Investigations

• Challenges faced by organizations
• Guidelines regarding good practices, including procedures for handling reports of corruption and subsequent investigations.
• Examples of actual procedures of different quality
• Evaluation of samples from students' country

10

Final Class & Wrap-up

• Presentation of student projects or research
• Guest speaker with students as moderators
• Final discussion: key points of the course, and what students could accomplish based on what they learned