The 2024 Annual Report of the Basel Institute on Governance features selected stories and photos that highlight the impact of our work around the world to promote good governance and counter corruption. They illustrate how we work holistically to achieve real and lasting progress towards a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
2024 was a challenging year for the Basel Institute on Governance, marked by the tragic passing of our Managing Director Gretta Fenner in April. But we have continued building on her legacy and, in early 2025, welcomed our new Executive Director Betsy Andersen to lead us into the future.
This article is part of a series on careers in fighting financial crime and opportunities to learn and study with the Basel Institute. Our colleague Joseph Mihajason Rakotondramanana shares his professional journey, from the private sector and his early steps as an analyst in Madagascar to his current role as a Specialist in Financial Investigation with the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption Programme.
"The link between financial crime and environmental harm is too often ignored. All the more reason to act."
In 2010, the UN Global Compact launched a bold initiative to tackle corruption through Collective Action. Funded by the Siemens Integrity Initiative, Anti-Corruption Collective Action (ACCA) mobilized a community of like-minded companies determined to jointly challenge corrupt practices and co-create solutions to address them.
This publication includes valuable tools and resources, best practices and lessons learned and is testament to how trusted partnerships can transform industries, drive long-term success and protect people and planet.
“The scope of integrity and anti-corruption Collective Action initiatives has grown massively over the last 20 or so years. This is because companies, civil society and others have recognised that to tackle extortion and the payment of bribes requires more than an inward-looking ethics and compliance programme to ensure fair competition.”
Gemma Aiolfi, Senior Advisor, Legal and Compliance, Basel Institute on Governance
A joint blog by Vanessa Hans, Director, Private Sector, Basel Institute on Governance, and Elodie Beth, Senior Manager, Anti-corruption, Global Relations, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The post is also published on the OECD website.
Stories, evidence and inspiration from the Basel Institute on Governance
At its core, Collective Action is a simple yet powerful concept: tackling corruption challenges together, rather than alone. Over the past two decades, anti-corruption Collective Action has grown from a niche idea to a recognised approach embedded in international standards, national strategies and corporate practices.
Amid geopolitical turbulence and concerns around the rise of authoritarianism and armed conflict, many people are looking at how corruption can be used “strategically” to deliberately undermine democratic institutions.
The so-called strategic use of corruption is not new. It’s often portrayed simplistically as a kind of Western movie with good guys vs. bad guys, victims vs. aggressors. The picture is, of course, more complicated than that.
Our Senior Communications and External Relations Specialist Monica Guy looks back on how a curious mind paired with diverse learning opportunities and the desire to make an impact can pave the way into anti-corruption. This article is part of a series on careers in fighting financial crime and opportunities to learn and study with the Basel Institute.
In these times of geopolitical instability and changing government priorities, business integrity risks being sidelined – just when it’s needed most.