On 15 March, the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association (ALA) organized a training on \u201cAnt-Corruption Compliance in Business\u201d for the representatives of Small and Medium Business Companies working in Gavar in the scope of the \u201cArmenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms\u201d Project.<\/p>\n
The Project is implemented by the \u201cCentre for International Private Enterprise\u201d, the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO, the \u201cCorporate Governance Centre\u201d NGO and the \u201cYerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industry\u201d with financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy.<\/p>\n
Ms Liana Makvetsyan, Lawyer, Head of Gavar branch of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association, welcomed the participants saying that anti-corruption measures will greatly promote business development in Gegharkunik marz and make their activities more protected.\u00a0\u201cDuring the project implementation as well as in the future, our organization will continue providing support for strengthening of business companies, provide advice when introducing the anti-corruption compliance program,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
While speaking about their understanding of the notion of corruption the participants mainly described it as giving bribes, which usually occurs in the relationship between the state bodies and members of the society. According to them, although there is no definition of corruption as such in the Criminal Code, there is a responsibility for corruption manifestations.<\/p>\n
Ms Mariam Zadoyan, Project Manager of the ALAs Component of \u201cArmenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms\u201d project, presented the notion of corruption, its manifestations and mentioned the money, repayment of debts, performance of certain actions in favor of a person, and refraining from performing certain actions in favor of a person and etc.<\/p>\n
Further, she then presented the components of the anti-corruption compliance program and the major international anti-corruption initiatives.<\/p>\n
Project expert Lusine Nalbandyan conducted a group work with the participants.\u00a0They found out through the game why businesses need to introduce the anti-corruption compliance program.<\/p>\n
It should be noted that at the beginning of the training the participants completed the tests, which included a number of questions about corruption schemes, anti-corruption compliance program, information on which is provided during the whole course.\u00a0At the end of the training, the participants completed the same test for the second time to compare what knowledge they gained from the course.<\/p>\n
Ms Varduhi Badalyan, representative of \u201cTsaghkavank\u201d inter-community children\u2019s center, said in a conversation with us that corruption is one of the greatest catastrophes for Armenia and especially for business.\u00a0\u201cIf the business field is clean, chances for conducting good business will increase.\u00a0Such trainings create a healthy business environment where it is moving forward in healthy competition environment and there is no need to resort to additional corruption activities as other similar businesses are corrupted,\u201d she said.\u00a0According to Varduhi Badalyan, monopolies are created in the unhealthy business environment, and the small and medium-sized business immediately \u201cdrowns\u201d and the economy experienced regress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe training provided necessary and practical knowledge, as I would never think that corruption risks can be assessed, the current or future staff should be designed in a manner which will minimize the corruption risks both internal and external relations.\u00a0Now, as a result of this training course, I\u2019ve discovered new risks for me that I have not previously evaluated, and I shall be able to fight those risks more effectively,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Shushan Khachatryan, Accountant\/Program Coordinator of the \u201cMantashov\u201d Union, noted that the training was interesting first of all because it provided information that according to the organizational-legal form of the organization they may be difference from the aspect of corruption.\u00a0\u201cThis provides an opportunity to understand what bargains we are carrying out.\u00a0Maybe we do not understand that it involves corruption in itself, and it can be risky for us in the future.\u00a0One of the reasons for participating in the training course is the relationship with the partners: what you should pay attention to when finding a new partner.\u00a0 I have learned recently that many organizations pay attention to whether their partner has an official website or a Facebook page or not,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
This material<\/strong>\u00a0has been prepared in the scope of the \u201cArmenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms\u201d Project implemented by the \u201cCentre for International Private Enterprise\u201d, the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO, the \u201cCorporate Governance Centre\u201d NGO and the \u201cYerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industry\u201d with financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy. The contents of this material are the sole responsibility of the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the National Endowment for Democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 15 March, the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association (ALA) organized a training on \u201cAnt-Corruption Compliance in Business\u201d for the representatives of Small and Medium Business Companies working in Gavar in the scope of the \u201cArmenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms\u201d Project. The Project is implemented by the \u201cCentre for International Private Enterprise\u201d, the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}