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The Basel Institute on Governance is an independent not-for-profit competence centre specialised in corruption prevention and public governance, corporate governance and compliance, anti-money laundering, criminal law enforcement and the recovery of stolen assets.
Based in Switzerland, the Institute's multidisciplinary and international team works around the world with public and private organisations towards its mission of tangibly improving the quality of governance globally, in line with relevant international standards and good practices.
The Institute is composed of four divisions, the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), the division for Public Governance, the division for Corporate Governance and Compliance, and the International Centre for Collective Action (ICCA).
News
2013
04/30
The World Economic Forum (WEF) becomes a founding member of the Basel Institute's International Center for Collective Action (ICCA)
We are pleased to announce that the World Economic Forum has joined IACA, OECD, TRACE, Transparency International and the Universidad de San Andrés as a founding institutional partner of the ICCA. Through its Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) - a global cross-sectoral anti-corruption...
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2013
04/30
ISL-Press Statement of the Independent Governance Committee (IGC)
The ICG welcomes the comprehensive and professional report by Judge Eckert. An Ethics Committee that is able to report on past incidents was one of the important reform steps that resulted from the work of the IGC.
Media release
Governance in Sports - FIFA
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2013
04/24
IGC media release regarding Alexandra Wrage`s resignation from the ICG
The IGC values Alexandra Wrage's work and is disappointed that she has decided to leave the Group. Alexandra announced to the IGC that time constraints would prevent her from serving any further. In substance, the IGC shares her dissatisfaction with FIFA's slow movement towards reform.
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2013
04/22
Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery Training Programme (Workshop 2) in Romania (April 2013)
Pursuant to a scoping mission held in September 2012 and the first workshop held in Galaţi in February 2013, representatives of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) conducted a second training workshop in Baia Mare, Romania. The Ministry of Justice in Romania (MOJ), more...
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2013
04/16
President of Colombia launches the world's first 'High Level Reporting Mechanism', a concept developed by the Basel Institute and the OECD
A high-level conference in Bogota, Colombia, on 2 April saw the launch by the President of the Republic of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, of the world's first 'High Level Reporting Mechanism' (HLRM). This mechanism, the concept of which was developed by the Basel Institute on Governance and the OECD...
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2013
04/03
The Economist cites the Basel AML Index in an offshore finance article on "The effects of Cyprus on other tax havens" (edition, 30 March 2013)
The Basel AML Index is the first publicly available anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) risk index that has been deployed by an independent academic institution. It was officially launched in April 2012 and serves to assess financial institutions' risk of money...
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2013
04/03
Train-the-Trainer Project in Egypt – Phase 2 (March 2013)
As indicated in relation to the first training workshop which took place in January 2013, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has designed and launched a project entitled “Supporting Measures to Combat Corruption and Money Laundering, and to Foster Asset Recovery in Egypt”. It is...
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2013
04/03
Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery Training Programme (Workshop 1) in Romania (February 2013)
The Ministry of Justice in Romania (MOJ), more specifically the National Office for Crime Prevention and Asset Recovery (ARO), in partnership with the Basel Institute on Governance (BIG), is currently implementing the project “Asset Recovery Competences”. It is financed within the Swiss-Romanian...
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2013
04/02
Technical Assistance on Anti-Corruption to the Government of Mozambique
The Basel Institute conducted an analysis of the capacities available within the Government of Mozambique to enforce the anti-corruption legislative package, which had been partially approved by the Mozambican Parliament. The anti-corruption package contained legislation on whistleblower and...
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2013
03/21
IGC urges further action
Today`s decision of FIFA`s Executive Committee was a further step in the consultation process leading up to the FIFA Congress in May 2013 when the phase two of the reform process will be put to vote.
Media release
Governance in Sports - FIFA
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2013
03/19
Conflict of Interest in Global, Public and Corporate Governance
Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-107-02932-3.
Authors: Anne Peters, Erhard Friedberg, Michael Davis, Auguste Nganga Malonga, René Urueña, August Reinisch, Christina Knahr, Michal Davala, Jean-Bernard Auby, Benjamin Schindler, Thomas Braendle, Alois Stutzer, Anna Christmann, Gregor...
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2013
03/18
Governance Assessment of the Public Sector Drug Management System: Uganda
The Basel Institute on Governance was commissioned by the Swedish Embassy in Kampala, Uganda to conduct an assessment of corruption risks in the Ugandan public sector drug supply chain during May 2011. The study employed the “power and influence” approach to assess governance weaknesses developed...
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2013
03/04
Asset recovery lectures in the UNICRI/University of Turin LL.M. in International Crime and Justice
From the 19-21 February, Pedro Gomes Pereira, a Senior Asset Recovery Specialist at the Basel Institute on Governance, has given for the fourth consecutive year lectures on corruption, organised crime, asset recovery and mutual legal assistance to alumni attending the UNICRI/University of Turin...
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