ACTA, ICSS sign MoU to enhance sports integrity
The Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA) and the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday.
The aim is to enhance co-operation in the consulting, training, and development fields, to prepare and implement joint training programmes, to exchange practical experiences to raise the level of performance and to enhance integrity and transparency.
The MoU was signed by HE Hamad bin Nasser al-Misnad, president of the ACTA, and Mohamed bin Hamad al-Hanzab, chairman of the ICSS.
Al-Misnad said that the signing of the MoU comes in ACTA’s keenness to co-ordinate between national authorities in the fields of integrity, transparency, and anti-corruption, and to benefit from national expertise and experience in strengthening the leadership of Qatar regionally and internationally in the aforementioned fields.
Al-Hanzab, indicated that the ICSS has been able, over the course of a decade, to participate effectively at the international level in formulating policies related to standards of safety and sports security, protection of integrity and combating corruption in global sport.
Perhaps, the centre’s most recent contribution in this field was the development of the sports safety and security standards’ list issued by the UN Office of Counterterrorism, which has been approved by the United Nations and circulated to all UN member states.
Al-Hanzab also praised the steps taken by ACTA in protecting Qatari sports and its institutions, in such way that ensures sustainability, and reflects the fact that sport is an important component of the Qatar National Vision 2030.
The MoU includes activating co-operation between the two parties in several areas, focusing on the issues of transparency and integrity in the sports field, enhancing the role of sports in spreading transparency and integrity, benefiting from joint experiences in the areas of integrity and transparency, and holding courses, training programmes and workshops on common related topics. In addition, to exchange the best skills and practices in the relevant educational, training and research fields, and to prepare joint studies and research.