Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Compliance Managers, Internal Auditors and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 7 Nov 2026 Course code SD-FFC-012

Before you join: Participants should have working experience in finance, procurement, audit, compliance, risk, legal, programme management or operational management.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Corruption, procurement fraud, conflicts of interest and weak oversight can distort decisions, waste public or corporate funds, and expose organisations to regulatory action, litigation and reputational damage. The problem is rarely limited to one improper payment or falsified invoice. It often arises where discretionary authority, poorly controlled third parties, weak financial controls, unclear accountability and ineffective reporting channels combine. Managers need to identify these conditions early, test whether controls work, and act on concerns using fair, documented processes.

This course examines governance and anti-corruption arrangements through the connected disciplines of fraud risk management, internal control, financial crime prevention and ethical leadership. Participants learn to assess corruption risks, apply ISO 37001 principles, manage gifts and conflicts, conduct risk-based third-party due diligence, and strengthen procurement and financial reporting controls. They also examine fraud schemes, whistleblowing systems, investigation protocols, control testing, culture measurement and board reporting. Cases reflect procurement, grant funding, banking relationships, public licensing, charitable intermediaries and corporate supplier networks.

The five-day instructor-led course combines focused briefings with case analysis, group decision work, risk-assessment simulations and structured application planning. Participants work with realistic records such as due-diligence files, invoices, conflict declarations, investigation notes and management reports. They leave with a corruption risk assessment model, a third-party due-diligence checklist, a controls testing plan and a 90-day governance improvement plan that can be adapted to their own responsibilities.

The course is suited to managers and specialists who hold control, oversight, financial, compliance, procurement or assurance responsibilities and need a practical working knowledge of anti-corruption governance.

What you will be able to do

  • Assess corruption and fraud risks using inherent and residual risk scoring
  • Design anti-bribery controls aligned with ISO 37001 requirements
  • Evaluate conflicts of interest, gifts and hospitality using documented decision criteria
  • Conduct risk-based third-party due diligence using ownership, sanctions and adverse-media checks
  • Test procurement and finance controls for fraud vulnerabilities and management override
  • Develop speak-up, triage and investigation protocols with evidence-preservation requirements
  • Build key risk indicators and management reporting for governance oversight
  • Produce a 90-day anti-corruption governance improvement plan

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Recognise bribery, procurement fraud and conflict indicators before losses escalate
  • Make defensible decisions on gifts, hospitality, recusals and third-party concerns
  • Contribute stronger evidence during audits, investigations and management reviews
  • Build credible anti-corruption proposals for senior management and boards
  • Apply a structured 90-day plan to improve controls within assigned responsibilities

For your organisation

  • Earlier identification of corruption risks in suppliers, agents and implementing partners
  • Stronger procurement, payment and financial reporting controls against fraud losses
  • More consistent handling of allegations, investigations and disciplinary decisions
  • Clearer governance information for executives, audit committees and boards
  • Documented anti-bribery actions that support regulatory and stakeholder scrutiny

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can explain how governance failures create corruption and fraud exposure.

  • Public-interest governance, accountability and integrity as mutually reinforcing control objectives
  • Agency theory, principal-agent problems and discretionary decision-making corruption risks
  • UNCAC obligations, OECD guidance and domestic enforcement architecture
  • Board, executive and management responsibilities under the three lines model
  • Distinguishing corruption, fraud, misconduct, conflicts and facilitation payments
  • Governance failures behind procurement, licensing, grant and payroll scandals

Participants can build and document a corruption and fraud risk assessment.

  • ISO 37001 anti-bribery management system requirements and control intent
  • Risk universe mapped across bribery, fraud, money laundering and conflicts
  • Likelihood-impact scoring calibrated with inherent and residual risk definitions
  • Heat maps tested against control effectiveness and risk appetite
  • Corruption risk indicators drawn from transactions, behaviours and external intelligence
  • Documenting risk owners, treatment actions, deadlines and assurance evidence

Participants can assess and document conflict, gift and hospitality decisions.

  • Conflict-of-interest declarations, registers and recusal decision criteria for key decisions
  • Related-party transaction review using beneficial ownership and approval records
  • Gift, hospitality and travel thresholds linked to approval workflows
  • Facilitation payment escalation routes and emergency exception documentation
  • Outside employment and revolving-door risks assessed before engagement
  • Recusal, mitigation and prohibition choices recorded in conflict registers

Participants can apply risk-based due diligence and control third-party relationships.

  • Third-party lifecycle controls from onboarding through renewal and termination
  • Risk-based due diligence using ownership, sanctions, reputation and capability checks
  • Beneficial ownership verification using registries, declarations and adverse media
  • Red flags for agents, distributors, consultants and charitable intermediaries
  • Contractual anti-corruption clauses, audit rights and termination provisions
  • Monitoring invoices, deliverables, commissions and payment-route changes after onboarding

Participants can identify and reduce corruption risks in procurement and disbursements.

  • Procurement fraud schemes: bid rigging, kickbacks, split purchases and collusion
  • Segregation of duties across requisition, approval, receipt and payment
  • Bid evaluation controls, scoring records and conflict declarations
  • Detecting supplier master-file anomalies, duplicate vendors and bank-account changes
  • Grant and aid disbursement safeguards for implementing partners
  • Payment analytics targeting round amounts, threshold splitting and unusual timing

Participants can test financial processes for fraud indicators and reporting manipulation.

  • Financial statement fraud pressures, opportunities and rationalisation under the fraud triangle
  • Revenue manipulation, expense fraud and asset misappropriation warning signs
  • Journal-entry testing focused on manual entries, overrides and period-end adjustments
  • Management override controls, close procedures and reconciliation evidence
  • Financial disclosure governance for contingent liabilities, related parties and donations
  • Linking anti-corruption controls with internal audit and external audit work

Participants can structure allegation handling, investigation planning and remediation decisions.

  • Speak-up channels designed for confidentiality, accessibility, anonymity and non-retaliation
  • Triage protocols separating allegations, enquiries, grievances and control failures
  • Investigation plans defining allegations, scope, evidence sources and milestones
  • Evidence preservation, interview sequencing and chain-of-custody documentation requirements
  • Case assessment using balance-of-probabilities and reasonable-suspicion thresholds consistently
  • Remediation actions, disciplinary decisions and regulator-reporting escalation criteria

Participants can map, test and monitor controls against priority corruption risks.

  • COSO internal control components applied to corruption prevention and detection
  • Preventive, detective and corrective controls mapped to priority risks
  • Key risk indicators and key control indicators with escalation thresholds
  • Control testing through walkthroughs, sample testing and exception analysis
  • Management information packs combining incident trends, losses and overdue actions
  • Internal audit assurance plans aligned with risk-based monitoring cycles

Participants can strengthen leadership behaviours and accountability mechanisms that discourage misconduct.

  • Tone from the top translated into measurable leadership behaviours
  • Code-of-conduct provisions covering bribery, conflicts, fraud and reporting
  • Targeted training plans based on role risk and control ownership
  • Performance incentives reviewed for pressure, manipulation and ethical blind spots
  • Fair disciplinary frameworks applied consistently across seniority and location
  • Measuring culture through surveys, speak-up data and control observations

Participants can prioritise remediation and prepare a practical governance improvement plan.

  • Incident response governance assigning decision rights, communications and recovery ownership
  • Root-cause analysis using five whys, fishbone diagrams and control mapping
  • Remediation plans prioritised by risk reduction, owner, deadline and cost
  • Regulatory disclosure decisions informed by legal counsel and evidence
  • Board reporting that separates confirmed facts, allegations and management actions
  • Personal 90-day application plans linked to governance improvement priorities

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Corruption and fraud risk assessment template
  2. Third-party due-diligence checklist
  3. Conflict-of-interest decision register
  4. Procurement fraud control matrix
  5. Investigation triage and evidence-preservation protocol
  6. 90-day governance improvement plan

Who should attend

  • Compliance Managers — responsible for anti-bribery policies, monitoring and case escalation
  • Internal Auditors — testing governance, procurement and financial control effectiveness
  • Finance Managers — overseeing payment controls, reporting integrity and fraud prevention
  • Procurement Managers — managing supplier selection, contracts and conflict risks
  • Risk Managers — maintaining fraud and corruption risk registers and treatment plans
  • Programme and Grant Managers — safeguarding donor funds and implementing-partner payments

Skills and tools covered

Corruption risk assessmentThird-party due diligenceFraud control testingInvestigation planningGovernance reportingEthical culture management

Tools and standards

ISO 37001 Anti-bribery Management Systems, COSO Internal Control—Integrated Framework, United Nations Convention against Corruption, OECD Good Practice Guidance on Internal Controls, Ethics, and Compliance

How the course runs

Training methodology

Training uses short instructor briefings to establish core concepts, standards and control methods, followed by facilitated case work based on supplier onboarding, procurement awards, suspicious payments and internal allegations. Group exercises apply risk scoring, due diligence, control mapping and investigation planning to realistic documentation. Simulations examine escalation decisions and board reporting under uncertainty. Each participant develops an application plan linked to current governance priorities, with instructor feedback on practical control design and implementation sequencing.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have working experience in finance, procurement, audit, compliance, risk, legal, programme management or operational management. They should understand basic organisational controls such as approvals, segregation of duties, policies and reporting lines. Familiarity with financial records, supplier relationships or internal investigations is useful but not essential. No prior certification in compliance, audit or fraud examination is required. The course does not assume legal training or specialist forensic accounting expertise; legal concepts are addressed from a management and control perspective.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants need working familiarity with organisational processes such as approvals, purchasing, payments, reporting or policy compliance. Prior audit, legal or investigative qualifications are not required.

Bring a laptop if available, along with a current policy, risk register or anonymised control issue relevant to your work. Course materials are provided, and no confidential records should be brought into the classroom.

It is designed for compliance, finance, procurement, audit, risk, legal, programme and operational managers with governance responsibilities. It is also suitable for managers newly assigned ownership of anti-corruption controls.

This course focuses on preventing, identifying and governing corruption and fraud through controls, risk assessment, third-party management and accountability. It addresses investigation planning but does not train participants as forensic investigators or AML transaction-monitoring specialists.

Participants can review a current third-party file, procurement process, conflict register or fraud risk assessment using the course templates. The final application plan identifies owners, priority actions, deadlines and evidence of completion.

Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours. Time is divided between instructor input, case analysis, group work, simulations, discussion and individual application planning across the ten modules.

Questions about this course?

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