CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

CoST works with government, industry and civil society to promote the disclosure, validation and interpretation of data from infrastructure projects, to inform and empower citizens  to hold decision-makers accountable. It is a country-centred multi-stakeholder initiative designed to promote transparency and accountability in publicly financed construction.

Last updated: 25.11.2020

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Collective Action Agreement in the Electrical Power Transmission Industry in Argentina

This initiative aimed to address anti-corruption and integrity standards in Argentina’s power generation and transmission industry. The Collective Action agreement included ten principles to which members must adhere, and also featured the services of a neutral facilitator. The goals of this Collective Action agreement included respecting the following standards:

Last updated: 22.04.2020

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UN Global Compact - Collective Action Project India

This initiative aims to develop a Collective Action platform, with a focus on anti-corruption intervention and ethical governance. The goals of this initiative are:

Last updated: 13.05.2020

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UN Global Compact South Africa - National Business Initiative

The goal of this initiative is to reduce corruption levels in South Africa through a business-led demonstration of practical collective action initiatives. The Project has engaged extensively with business and government, held several training sessions targeting business whole also including local government. It has generated interest from all sectors and seeks to build on this going forward, to move toward implementation of collective initiatives and models of good practice.

Last updated: 13.05.2020

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Social Witness / Integrity Pact in Government Procurement - The Mexican Experience

The project aims to produce an Analytical Review Report of the Integrity Pacts/Social Witness tools that Transparencia Mexicana has applied in around 100 public procurement processes.

This methodology combines a mini-contractual form in a bidding process (IP) with intensive monitoring during the bidding process (SW). The result is a light legal structure with a real-time monitoring process that:

Last updated: 13.05.2020

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UNODC Global Integrity Education Project

The project will establish and implement an effective integrity education programme that fosters ethical decision-making in the private sector and empowers employees to serve as “ethics' ambassadors” in companies. The ultimate goal of this project is to foster ethical decision-making in the private sector by equipping young graduates with ethical mindsets and skills at the start of their careers.

The project’s most innovative aspects are:

Last updated: 14.07.2020

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Scaling up Anti-Corruption Collective Action within Global Compact Local Networks

Scaling up Anti-Corruption Collective Action within Global Compact Local Networks (GCLN) is a four-year project to support collective actions from Global Compact Local Networks and promote public-private cooperation in fighting corruption. The project aims to:

Last updated: 16.07.2020

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Positioning Collective Action as a Compliance Norm

This project, implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, aims to embed Collective Action in compliance by developing a global norm, bolstering its application, and innovating Collective Action to address demand-side bribery and human rights synergies through three objectives.

Last updated: 02.03.2021

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Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC)

The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) is a unique cross-sectoral grouping of public, private and civil society organisations (CSOs) with a focus on promoting good governance and fighting corruption in Ghana.

Last updated: 13.05.2020

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Recommendation 6 Network

The Initiative puts forward guidelines or common standards for non-trial resolutions of foreign bribery cases.

The members consist of academics, lawyers and companies that come together regularly to develop these guidelines and present them to governments and international organisation such as the OECD for their consideration.

The first goal aimed to establish a benchmark of what the legal practices are on a global scale with regard to pre-trial solutions.

Last updated: 13.05.2020

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