"Targets of the National Strategic Objectives to Combat Corruption" in an educational seminar at the Faculty of Law - Assiut University
Under the patronage of Dr. Ahmed El-Menshawy, President of Assiut University, the Faculty of Law organized, on Tuesday, November 19, an educational symposium entitled: “Targets of the National Strategic Objectives to Combat Corruption,” in the presence of Dr. Douib Saber, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Dr. Moamer Rateb Mohamed, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, and Dr. Mustafa Morsi, Director General of the General Administration of Information Systems and Digital Transformation, and Coordinator of the Implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy for Assiut University, as part of a series of symposia launched by the university to familiarize employees with the objectives of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy.
Dr. Ahmed El-Menshawy, President of Assiut University, stressed the efforts of the Egyptian state in combating corruption through a national strategy based on enhancing transparency and integrity in all sectors, and highlighting the main axes of the national strategy to combat corruption, explaining the university's keenness to play its role in spreading awareness and building cadres capable of combating corruption, given that combating corruption is not only the responsibility of the state, but a collective responsibility that requires the participation of all members of society.
In his speech, Dr. Douib Saber thanked the university leadership for their continuous support in holding awareness seminars on an ongoing basis, with the aim of educating members of the university community about the various forms and types of corruption, especially financial and administrative corruption, in addition to raising awareness about the harmful effects of the various forms of corruption, which negatively affect the progress, growth and prosperity of society, explaining that the Egyptian state is keen to combat corruption by launching the national strategy to combat corruption, hoping that the participants will listen carefully to the information of the seminar.
For his part, Dr. Moamer Ratib explained that the series of seminars comes within the framework of the university’s keenness to spread awareness of the objectives of the national strategy to combat corruption, and to identify its forms and apparent images, praising the existing cooperation to organize these seminars in the various colleges of the university, wishing the participants to benefit from the seminar’s topics and come out with fruitful information.
During the symposium, Dr. Mustafa Morsi discussed a number of topics, including: the definition of corruption, the reasons for the emergence of administrative corruption, its types, and the consequences thereof, the manifestations of administrative corruption, and methods of combating it to reduce this phenomenon, the bodies concerned with combating corruption, and learning about the national strategy for combating corruption. He also reviewed the three stages of the national strategy and explained its main objectives.
