The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) organized a training for public officials of the Government of Serbia on 8 and 9 April 2024, through the Project “Facility Supporting the Strengthening of the Rule of Law in the Republic of Serbia“ (EU for Fight Against Corruption and for Fundamental Rights).

The project is jointly financed by the European Union, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC). It is implemented by the German International Development Agency (GIZ), the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the Central Project Management Agency of Lithuania (CPMA), and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Mission to Serbia.

The Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Dejan Damnjanovic opened the training and extended gratitude to IACA and ADA for organizing this series of trainings for the staff of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption.

Besides representatives of the Agency, representatives of the Public Procurement Office of Serbia also participated in the training.

The training is the third out of five planned trainings for the Agency for Prevention of Corruption representatives, and it focused on the topic - “Public-Private Partnerships”.

Mr. Drago Kos, a leading international anti-corruption expert, and lecturer at IACA acquainted the participants with the definition and categories of public-private partnerships. The training also featured presentations on topics such as good governance objectives for public-private partnerships, pitfalls of public-private partnerships, public-private partnerships in practice and the benefits of public-private partnerships. Special attention was given to the risks of corruption in public-private partnerships.

On the second and final day of the training, participants were presented certificates to mark the completion of the training.

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