UNDP kicks off country research

ON United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Anti-Corruption for Peaceful and Inclusive (ACPIS) Project gathered in Manila, Philippines national country researchers, together with regional and global experts, to plan a new UNDP research report on the ‘Linkages between Corruption and Violent Extremism in the Asia

- lor, Australian Embassy in the Philippines, Mr Ola Almgren, UNDP Resident Representative in the Philippines, and Mr Phil Matsheza, Team Leader of the Governance and Peacebuilding UNDP Resident Representative Mr. Ola Almgren welcomes participants to the seminar workshop held at the UNDP Regional Office in Bangkok Unit in UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub opened the workshop and welcomed participants. The activity is supported by Australia’s Department and Trade.

scourge’ of corruption and vio- of Foreign Affairs lent extremism harming national and local stability and prosperity. Mr Almgren noted the importance of involving youth and women to increase the effective preventing violent extremism. Mr Matsheza highlighted the strong demand that now exists for generating evidence of the linkages between corruption and violent extremism.

The national researchers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan Philippines and Thailand will start their country studies after the workshop. UNDP aims to launch the new report to mark International Anti- Corruption