PAP 2011-2012

PAP™ 2011-2012

Supported financially by LGI/OSI, conducted in collaboration with Chronos-Info/Croatia
Call for Application for Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina

What is PAP?

PAP - Program for Anticorruption Practitioners, is a comprehensive capacity building program aimed to develop your knowledge and skills, as trainers, consultants and facilitators, to be able to use participatory strategic planning and organizational development tools in order to support effectively public leaders treat and prevent corruption in their organizations, as an entry point toward integrity and more efficiency, transparency and accountability.

Who can apply?

You can apply if:

You work for a training institution, belonging to civil society, private or public sectors, from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro or Bosnia and Herzegovina
Your training institution has proven record in building capacity for good governance
You have prior experience as trainer, OD consultant or facilitator
You master speaking, writing and reading in English
You make a convincing statement of interest in your application

What is required from you?

You have to apply as a team of two persons: working for the same or for two different training institutions; but only one institution is expected to be responsible for your team performances and work
You have to commit your time to go through PAP learning process, which has two components:

Knowledge Building Component, September 2011-April 2012

A self-learning process under PAP Tutors guidance, organized in 4 learning modules, aimed at deepen your understanding of Corruption in Organizations, Organizations, Local Governments organizations, Change Management in organizations. Each module is 6 weeks long during which you will study the provided readings, you will apply concepts and you will elaborate a paper (in total 4 papers). 12 teams (24 persons) will be selected to attend this component.

Skills Building Component, May 2012

A 10-day interactive and participatory training, organized at Croatian seaside, aimed at improving your skills as trainers, consultants and facilitators, the three roles you will perform when working with public leaders and their organizations. Only the best 6 teams (12 persons) will attend this component, selected based on the quality of their papers and the commitment they demonstrated during the Knowledge Building component.
You have to pay 100 euro/person, 200 euros/team as a commitment fee, if selected to attend the Knowledge Building component. Attending the Skills Building component is free of charge.

What you receive in PAP?

You become skilled practitioners, in a new, vast and very needed field of work, which is a priority in your countries for your governments and for the international community: addressing and preventing effectively corruption.

You will be among the few practitioners who have the knowledge and skills to apply an innovative approach recognized internationally by the most prestigious award for excellence in the public service, the UN Public Service Award.

This innovative approach treats corruption as a symptom of organizations' malfunctioning, regards people as basically capable, motivated human beings, knowledgeable about their organizations and opens up local governments processes to be more effective, accountable and transparent. It was pioneered successfully by Ronald MacLean Abaroa as Mayor of La Paz on the basis of Professor Robert Klitgaard's analytical frameworks. They focused on strategically treating and preventing the most harmful forms of corruption, changing dysfunctional systems and not (only) corrupt individuals, and involving in the process staff and managers. This approach was further developed and adaped for CEE/SEE by FPDL in collaboration with Ronald MacLean Abaroa/WBI and applied succesfully in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland and Romania by skilled anticorruption practitioners working with public leaders and local governments.

You will receive financial and professional support (pending to accessing funds), after graduating PAP two components, to work with real clients - public leaders and local governments in your countries, to support them elaborate/implement anticorruption strategic plans that increase organizations integrity, performance, transparency and accountability.

You will become member of an anticorruption practitioners international network of like-minded and committed change agents, who receive and give peer to peer support, meet and exchange experience, learn from each other.

We will cover all your team expenses

incurred by attending the Knowledge Building Component - 1.700 euro/team, (besides your commitment fee of 200 euro/team).
incurred by attending the Skills Building Component - 3.000 euro/team.

You will attend a program guided by the experiential learning principles: successful experiences can be replicated if the concepts on which they relied are understood, internalized and applied, with careful reworking and adaptation, into new experiences.

Your learning will be guided by Tutors, renowned experts and practitioners:

	Ronald MacLean-Abaroa is a leading governance expert and practitioner, the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz in 1985 and reelected four times until 1997. Appointed the youngest minister at age 29, he held five national cabinet positions including Planning, Foreign Affairs, Government Spokesman, Finance, and Sustained Development, serving three different Presidents between 1978 and 2001. He run for President of Bolivia in 2002, before joining the World Bank as the Lead Public Sector Management Specialist on Governance, Decentralization, and Poverty Reduction. He spent three years with Harvard Institute for International Development as a Senior Research Fellow on Governance, working with Jeffrey Sachs, and Michael Porter, in the Central American Project, and lectured at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He received his Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, and his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maryland. He is the author of several articles, professional papers, case studies, and books. He coauthored with Robert Klitgaard and Lindsey Parris Corrupt Cities: A practical Guide to Cure and Prevention (2000) translated into fifteen languages.
	Ana Vasilache is expert in public administration, architect and urban planner by background, with extensive experience in the design and facilitation of participatory processes in communities and organizations. In the last 15 years, Ana has built the capacity of more than 1500 trainers/facilitators from Romania and other countries from CEE/SEE, West and East Africa, Central and South Asia through interactive and participatory training programs, high quality educational materials and effective learning methodologies. She is Founder and Executive Director of FPDL - Partners Foundation for Local Development, a Romanian NGO playing an important regional role in promoting good governance and democratic leadership. Since 2004 she is collaborating with Ronald MacLean Abaroa/WBI in order to address corruption in local governments by building the capacity of CEE/SEE anticorruption practitioners' network. Ana received UN Habitat Scroll of Honor 2000 for her dedication in improving urban governance in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe.
	Nicole Rata is expert in public administration, architect and urban planner by background, having more than 15 years extensive international experience in the design and conduct of Training of Trainers and Facilitators, in the elaboration of creative training materials, in countries from CEE/SEE, West and East Africa, Central and South Asia. She is Deputy Director of FPDL - Partners Foundation for Local Development since its establishment. In Romania and the region, she actively promotes participatory planning processes in communities aimed at their socio-economic development. She educates students, as associate professor at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest. She is actively involved in promoting and disseminating the innovative, strategic and participatory anticorruption approach.
	Anton Florijan Barisic is expert in leadership and management, HR management, organizational development and strategic management, certified as anticorruption practitioner. He is the managing director and principal consultant of Chronos Info and has extensive experience in working with the private and public sector. He wrote as author or co-author more than 30 scientific and professional papers and articles. He is teaching, as senior lecturer, courses on management consulting, knowledge management and corporate performance at the University for Applied Sciences Zagreb, Croatia. He is president of the Croatian Association of Management Consultants, (AMC), and member of ICMCI Commitee for Education and Training. He is holding the world recognized certificate CMC for management consultants, he is certified European Excellence Auditor and member of EFQM. In 2011 he was awarded with Croatian National Award for outstanding contribution to the development of consulting profession in Croatia