Basel Institute newsletter - February 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

In this April update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner gives a sense of how we are adapting in these early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with the generous support of our partners and donors, and our feelings for the future.

The newsletter also features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications. We take this chance to welcome five new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - April 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

In this April update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner gives a sense of how we are adapting in these early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with the generous support of our partners and donors, and our feelings for the future.

The newsletter also features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications. We take this chance to welcome five new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - December 2019

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Not the usual newsletter – a personal message at the end of 2019 from our Managing Director Gretta Fenner to all our friends and partners around the world. 

Read through for some recent highlights and thoughts on unity against corruption. It's the theme of December's Conference of the States Parties conference and a central tenet of our work.

View the newsletter here.

The "favourability" principle - UNCAC's plug adapter for enforcement of non-conviction-based confiscation requests

Opening remarks and a presentation of key concepts by Oscar Solórzano at the side event “Living up to the spirit of articles 43 and 46 UNCAC” during the eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Abu Dhabi, 16-20 December 2019.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me please welcome you to the side event “Living up to the spirit of articles 43 and 46 UNCAC”.

Public Finance Management programme in Peru achieves flying colours and enters a new four-year phase

We are happy to announce that our Public Finance Management programme in Peru has been extended for another four years, following an excellent performance in the programme’s external evaluation.

Launched in 2015 and run out of our regional office in Lima, the programme is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). It aims to strengthen public financial management among 11 local and regional governments in Peru.

Basel Institute pursues new Collective Action project with renewed funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative

The Basel Institute on Governance is pleased to announce that it has received renewed funding to deepen its anti-corruption Collective Action work from the Siemens Integrity Initiative’s Third Funding Round. The project will run from 2019 through 2024 and will be implemented in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Working Paper 31: Die Unterstellung von Goldraffinerien unter das Geldwäschereigesetz

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Die Schweiz ist der global wichtigste Standort für die Raffination von Gold. Jahr für Jahr werden circa 2200-3100 Tonnen Rohgold in die Schweiz importiert. Der Grossteil der Importe ist auf die Geschäftstätigkeit der hiesigen Goldraffinerien zurückzuführen. Sie sollen gemeinsam rund 50-70% der weltweiten Goldproduktion in die Schweiz importieren, um daraus Goldbarren, Halbfabrikate und andere Güter herzustellen. 

Working Paper 31: Applying the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act to gold refineries

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist / Team Lead Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Switzerland is the world leader in gold refining. Of the roughly 2,200–3,100 tonnes of raw gold imported into the country each year,  the majority is destined for Swiss gold refineries. Together these companies are estimated to refine 50–70 percent of the world’s gold production, transforming it into gold bars, semi-finished products and other goods. 

Malawi’s new National Anti-Corruption Strategy: a state-of-the-art approach?

Congratulations to our partners in Malawi on the launch of the new Malawi National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS II).

We are delighted to have been able to contribute our multi-disciplinary expertise to what we believe is a state-of-the-art anti-corruption strategy that will have real impact on corruption in Malawi over the next five years.