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SUMMARY:CGHR Practitioner Series: Fredrik Galtung\, President &amp\; Co-fo
 under\, Integrity Action - Fredrik Galtung\, President &amp\; Co-founder\,
  Integrity Action
DTSTART:20160127T170000Z
DTEND:20160127T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Fredrik Galtung is the President and co-founder of Integrity A
 ction\, a London-based NGO that was founded in 2003 to find ways of making
  public services work better for the poor by reducing fraud and corruption
  and building integrity. Over more than 20 years\, Fredrik has consulted o
 n strategic corruption control and integrity building in more than forty c
 ountries. An estimated 25% of aid and government projects' value is lost t
 o fraud\, corruption and mismanagement in developing and war-torn countrie
 s. Fredrik Galtung is re-defining anti-corruption work from top-down finge
 r pointing to bottom-up promotion of integrity at the community level. Cha
 llenging the assumption that corruption can be tackled through punishment 
 and compliance based tactics\, he founded Integrity Action (IA) in 2003 wi
 th the primary objective of fixing problems through collaboration and cons
 tructive engagement. Integrity Action's Community Integrity Building appro
 ach has helped local organisations monitor - and fix - hundreds of project
 s affecting around 5 million people across more than a dozen countries. \n
 \nFor those hoping to pursue a career in the ‘Third Sector’\, especial
 ly amidst a broad range of organisations and agencies whose mandates can b
 e loosely collected under the umbrella headings of ‘Human Rights and Soc
 ial Justice’\, ‘Conflict and Security’ or ‘Development and Humanit
 arian Aid\,’ the terrain can be difficult to navigate. A sound academic 
 training\, the kind provided by Cambridge University\, is important but ce
 rtainly not enough to prepare students for the transition into working in 
 this sector. Through a mixture of substantive discussion\, personal reflec
 tion and practical advice\, the CGHR Practitioner Series brings together h
 igh‐level experts working in these fields and creates a forum in which s
 tudents and researchers can listen and ask questions about what this work 
 actually involves\, seek out reflections from experience on the dilemmas a
 nd challenges faced\, and probe the skill set and experience needed to for
 ge a career in these fields.\n\nMore about the CGHR Practitioner series: h
 ttp://www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/practitioner_series
LOCATION:Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Rd\, C
 B3 9DT
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