g) Ensure the availability of adequate training opportunities for personnel involvement in all aspects of demand reduction programmes and to share those opportunities within the region; h) Provide adequate human, fmancial and technical resources for the implementation of the activities to combat drug abuse; ARTICLE 8 CORRUPTION 1. Member States shall institute appropriate and effective measures for cooperation between enforcement agencies to curb corruption, resulting from illicit drug trafficking. 2. Measures to be taken shall include the following:a) Establishment of adequately resourced anti-corruption agencies or units that are:(i) independent from undue intervention, through appointment and recruiting mechanisms that guarantee the designation of persons of high professional quality and integrity; (ii) free to initiate and conduct investigations; (iii) capable of gathering evidence, examining files and documents, and having the power to administer oaths and to deal with any obstruction and contempt; b) Establishment of administrative and regulatory mechanism for the prevention of corruption and the abuse of power; c) Strengthening and harmonising of criminal laws and procedures to curb corruption; d) Adoption of procedures for the detection, investigation, prosecution and conviction of suspect corrupt persons and their accomplices, as well as the protection of witnesses; e) Freezing, forfeiture and confiscation of property and money acquired through and/or derived from corruption; f) Rendering of mutual legal assistance in corruption investigations and prosecutions; 8