Business integrity was among the priority topics at the 10th session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in December 2023. For the first time ever, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) together with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) hosted a Private Sector Forum in the margins of CoSP10.

Corruption and fraud risks in public procurement are a concern all over the world – including Bulgaria, where scandals around infrastructure and procurement projects damage trust in government, drain the public budget and may also affect EU development funds.

We are excited to launch a new project on addressing corruption risks in the emergency response of the Malawian health system.

Our team of collaborators will analyse corruption risks emerging in three kinds of crisis situations:

Authorities in Cusco in southeast Peru have succeeded in recovering a house and land linked to acts of corruption by the former mayor of the province of Canchis, using a recently introduced non-conviction based forfeiture law.

The Basel Institute's Public Governance team has a new name: Prevention, Research and Innovation.

The name better reflects our team’s role connecting corruption research with anti-corruption practice and piloting innovative anti-corruption interventions.

Claudia Baez Camargo, who has led our research and prevention activities since 2009, said:

Corruption was on the main programme of the Munich Security Conference on 16–18 February 2024 for the first time.

At the Basel Institute we connect our IT, eLearning and training activities closely. The result is more effective and efficient capacity building that takes advantage of technological advances while keeping trainees’ learning experience at the centre.

If someone gives a healthcare worker a “gift” in return for faster treatment, is that a bribe or just a cultural expectation? Are some cultures inherently more corrupt than others? And does the meaning of corruption vary according to cultural context?

These are just some of the controversial and complex issues that scholars have asked in relation to culture and corruption.

Nominations are now open for the International Collective Action Awards 2024.

Launched in 2022, the prestigious Collective Action Awards celebrate inspiring and outstanding multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise standards of business integrity in a particular context. Two award categories are available: