Fields of Activities

Facing a difficult transition to a modern open-market economy: curbing violent crime, fighting the mafias, securing and sustaining foreign investors and stimulating economic activity and trade; obtaining international financing for economic reforms and infrastructure development.

New oil-producing countries: negotiation of production-sharing arrangements with foreign firms, long-term oilfield development, generating funds needed to spur diversified industrial development, adapting economic reforms, and replacing old economic ties and structures.

Oil-based Economies: taking advantage of the oil price, encouraging private sector growth to lessen dependence on oil, diversify the national Economy, investing in renewable Energy, increase employment opportunities for the population, creating hope for the youth, investing on job training, education and infrastructure development.

Water for Growth and Development. Among the objectives of these Courses: to take roots at the regional level, to determine the most relevant challenges faced by every Region, analyze the constraints and deficiencies faced by actors and institutions and review innovative processes that successfully address the issues. Main topics are: Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management, Water Supply, Waste Water Management, Water for Food and Environment, Risk Management, Models for Financing Water Infrastructure at the regional and local levels, Capacity-Building, and Social Learning.

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The IMF’s role in the international financial system and the World Bank

The economic underpinning of IMF Programmes: financial programming, conditionality.

Social safety networks and IMF Programmes

The role of IMF in forming monetary policy of new economies

Achieving a monetary and economic union and implementing a common currency: the basic requirements for such an union, the necessity of a high level of harmonization of economic policies between the Member States, the fiscal and monetary reforms, the banking legislation, the criteria for a common monetary stability, the budgetary deficits and indebtedness, the integration of financial markets.

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Border Security Systems & Control: establishment; reliability and efficiency; strategic needs; Regional Cooperation on border security; Establishment of mechanisms.

Strengthening the judicial system and law enforcement capacities

Transparency: Standards of good governance; Impact on foreign investment; Impact on fraud and transnational crime; Improving anti-corruption measures.

Money laundering: practical aspects of the day-to-day fight against organised crime; anti-money laundering measures.

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Public sector’s Informatization. These Courses put emphasis on substantive subjects and topics with respect to ICT for development while focusing on Public sector’s Informatization, emerging needs and trends worlwide in taking advantage of ICT for development. Immediate objective include to assist national, regional and local Government decision-makers in articulating visions, identifying directions and making right decisions on ICT development, to assist ICT entrepreneurs in identifying business opportunities, exploring potential markets and understanding emerging needs, to assist technical professionals in particular of the New Economies in recognizing the trends, finding best pratices and solutions and identifying business partners. Main topics: how to create a good governance aimed at ICT development, to better understand the global trends of information and communication technologies and how they are related to development strategies, to be aware of new products, services and solutions, to catch up with the best pratices and share experiences, how to build necessary capacities, how to mobilize resources for ICT development.

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Implementing new military and police concepts: optimizing public security services ; financial solutions ; flexibility, reactivity.

Intelligence: identification of threats; new strategies on crisis prevention and analysis architecture.

Large-scale events and their security

Governmental strategies: the need for continuous risk evaluation process: implementation of risk evaluation and analysis tools: fostering solidarity between public and private sectors; new behaviours

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Civilian Control of the Armed Forces

Establishing security in a multi-ethnic and/or multi-religious environment

Security and sustainable development

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Specific EU Policies in practice (e.g. the new EU Neighbourhood Policy)

Negotiation with Brussels as an EU Candidate Country: Negotiation Training

Roadmap to “European Funding” (European Commission, European Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Council of Europe Development Bank)

Improving the visibility and the influence of a new EU Member in the Union: how does the Commission works ; how to influence decisions

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Decision Making Process in the EU / in the UN

American and European lobbying: methods, actions and profile of the lobbyist

The role of lobbying in the elaboration and negotiation of European directives: Lobbying – training

Improving the positive reputation and the promotion of a candidate country in the EU

Communicating with European Opinion Leaders/ European Parliament’s Members

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The main UN human rights instruments

Treaty-based monitoring bodies: their activities and rules of procedure. Individual applications and state reporting guidelines, with particular regard to the ICCPR

European Convention on Human Rights: law and procedure; scope of application

The jurisprudence of the ECHR: right to fair trial; freedom of expression; death penalty; torture

Domestic implementation of international obligations

The protection of Human Rights during states of emergency

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Protection of persons not, or no longer taking an active part in hostilities, including occupation

The law relating to the conduct of hostilities: the principle of distinction between civilians and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives

Objects and areas subject to special protection: natural environment; cultural property; objects necessary for the survival of the civilian population; power stations

The co-existence of international human rights law and international humanitarian law during armed conflict and occupation: overlaps and differences

The use of weapons: general rules and regulations relating to specific weapons

Implementation, including war crimes and the International Criminal Court

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