The Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Unit participated in the training titled "Financing the Electoral Campaigns" held by Rasheed Coalition for Integrity and Transparency, in cooperation with the Independent Election Commission and in partnership with the Transparency International and the European Union in Amman during the period from November 22nd – 23rd, 2015, with the participation of institutions from the public sector, governmental institutions and civil society, in addition to the participation of political parties representatives, members of the Chamber of Deputies, international organizations and experts in the field of integrity, transparency and political finance.& &
The mentioned training addressed several topics such as the transparency in elections, standards and best practices in the field of financing the electoral campaigns, national legislation related to political finance in Jordan, disclosure of political finance for citizens and tools for monitoring the political finance, in addition to providing specialized brief presentations by national Jordanian agencies on the role of the Independent Election Commission and the challenges faced by the IEC, the legislative reforms required in Jordan on political finance and monitoring such from the civil society institutions perspective, controlling the political finance for the electoral campaigns and the transparency in the political finance from a parliamentary perspective.
At the end of the training, a number of proposals and recommendations were submitted by the participants for enhancing the regulation and controlling of financing the electoral campaigns to contribute to reinforcing the national transparency and integrity system.
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