How we're funded

The Basel Institute on Governance has an annual budget of approximately CHF 15 million.

We receive core funding from bilateral governmental (development aid) agencies including:

• Government of Jersey
• Principality of Liechtenstein
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
• UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

These core contributions support the operations of our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). In addition, the Principality of Liechtenstein provides core funding to our Green Corruption programme.

Several dedicated country programmes received additional earmarked support from our core donors' country offices. Our Public Finance Management programme in Peru is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. The Basel Institute also benefits from multiple project-specific grants from international development partners.

The Siemens Integrity Initiative has funded a significant part of our Collective Action work since 2010, including the development of the B20 Collective Action Hub resource centre.

Other direct income comes from a variety of corporate foundations and initiatives, development agencies and research grant facilities.

If any surplus is generated from advisory services or subscriptions to our Basel AML Index, we reinvest this to fund research and technical assistance programmes in our partner countries.