A three-day workshop on “Reporting on Corporate Governance” will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from October 15-17.
The workshop is organized by the Reuters Foundation, the Global Corporate Governance Forum and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). Journalists from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan with an interest in business news and how companies are run are invited to take part.
If you want to attend, please apply urgently to the following IFC representatives in your country and in any case before September 24:
Kymbat Ybyshova (for Central Asian countries)
Email: KYbyshova@ifc.org
Muhiddin Tojiev in Tajikistan will also be able to help with applications from that country. Email: mtojiev@ifc.org
The workshop, designed to give participants a better understanding of how and for whom companies should be run and controlled, is part of a series around the world which has previously travelled to Belgrade, Cairo and Mumbai.
Reporters will receive guidance on what to look out for and extra questions to ask as they probe into dark corporate corners.The Forum uses the slogan that “better companies make better societies”. Workshop participants so far have commented how better governance and fuller disclosure of information might have made banks’ problems in the current ‘credit crunch’ more visible sooner and perhaps easier to handle.
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