Colombia has led the way in adopting and expanding the concept of the High Level Reporting Mechanism (HLRM). It developed the first HLRM in 2013 to ensure a smooth and fair public tender process for the national 4G roads infrastructure project.

During the 4G roads project, the HLRM was activated about a late modification to technical specifications that cut all but one bidder out of the competition. Working with the bidding companies, experts and government representatives, the HLRM resolved the issue within two weeks in a way that was acceptable to all sides.

In August 2018, the Basel Institute on Governance and OECD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Colombian President and Mayor of Bogotá to promote collaboration in designing a High Level Report Mechanism (HLRM) for the construction of Bogotá’s first metro line.

Co-financed by central and local governments, the 25 km elevated metro line will transport around 650,000 passengers a day. The total cost of this major five-year infrastructure project is estimated at USD 4.1 billion.

Argentina launched its first High Level Reporting Mechanism (HLRM) in January 2018 and applied it to a major highways project.

In September 2018, the Anti-Corruption Office reactivated the HLRM to apply to a public-private partnership (PPP) tender for Electricity Transmission run by the Energy Secretariat. The project involves the construction of new high-voltage electricity transmission lines with a scope of more than 3,000 kilometres.

Argentina launched its first High Level Reporting Mechanism (HLRM) in January 2018. In the pilot phase launched in April 2018, it applied to public-private partnership (PPP) contracts under a National Highways Directorate (Dirección Nacional de Vialidad, DNV) project to develop 7,500 km of new highways and safe routes.

The 12-year road infrastructure project involved a total expenditure of USD 35 billion, with around USD 12 billion spent during the first phase alone (2015–2019). The first round of contracts were awarded in July 2018.

Ukraine’s Business Ombudsman Council (BOC) is now the primary channel for companies to report unfair business practices. It was formally established in May 2015 as a result of discussions with various stakeholders and its development was overseen by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Basel Institute on Governance.

The Beijing New Century Academy on Transnational Corporations (NATC) will improve effective compliance management of Chinese enterprises and push compliance Collective Action in China through making efforts in the following three objectives.

An enabling environment accompanied by rule of law and enhanced compliance capacity of market players must go hand in hand to promote a high level of corruption-free society. Business Integrity Society (BIS) aims to achieve the overall project goal by addressing the following two key objectives during its project years from 1 Oct. 2019 to 30 Sept. 2022.

The project aims to change the dynamics of the interaction between business and tax administrations and to deepen the cooperation between tax authorities and other law enforcement agencies in countering tax evasion and other financial crimes. The project would promote the concepts of good tax governance and the importance of a transparent tax system for economic development and how law enforcement agencies and tax authorities can cooperate to counter the misuse of beneficial ownership and client/attorney privileges to counter evasion and money laundering.

The overall project goal is to use strategic levers of ethical change to combat municipal and procurement corruption in South Africa. Specifically, the goals are to:

The main purpose of this project is to improve the ease of doing business in Mozambique by reducing corruption and broadening ethics management capacity, thus advancing organisational integrity.

It is envisaged that interventions based on a Collective Action approach and strengthening business integrity capacity will contribute to reducing corruption in business activities, resulting in enhanced business practices in Mozambique.