The Basel Institute will be launching an innovative project promoting systematic, intelligence-led action against illegal wildlife trafficking (IWT) networks along the East Africa – Southeast Asia trading chain.
Four members of Tanzania’s Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) have delivered three weeks of intensive training workshops to fellow PCCB staff. The trainers are PCCB officials who graduated from the “train the trainer” programme of the Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) in 2017.
We are looking for a qualified external reviewer for our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) and its operational approach, structure and work plan.
ICAR pursues the mission of supporting and strengthening the capacity of developing and transition partner countries to investigate and prosecute corruption cases with a view to recovering scarcely needed resources and deter future corruption from happening.
The newly established Public Finance Management Experts Network (PFM Experts Network) in Peru met in the capital Lima this week, in yet another demonstration of bottom-up momentum in improving long-term Public Finance Management capacity in Peru.
We congratulate Paola Bustamante on her recent appointment to the position of Minister for Development and Social Inclusion in the Peruvian Government. Having first-hand experience of her personal and professional qualities, we are convinced she will perform excellently in this important role.
Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has approved a new Code of Ethics and Conduct as part of its efforts to combat corruption and promote ethical principles and moral values.
The Code was co-developed by ministry officials with technical assistance from SECO-funded Public Finance Management programme implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance in Peru.
Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finance co-developed a new Code of Ethics and Conduct as part of its efforts to combat corruption and promote ethical principles and moral values.
The Code was collaboratively developed by ministry officials with technical assistance from SECO-funded Public Finance Management programme implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance in Peru.
For those who are not at the 3rd Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies today and tomorrow, here is a taster – opening remarks by Federico Paesano, Senior Financial Investigation Specialist at the Basel Institute on Governance, which is co-organising the event.
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Senior Investigation Specialist Simon Marsh and Team Lead, Intelligence & Counter Wildlife Trafficking Tim Wittig participated along with Lord William Hague in an event organised by RUSI on The Wildlife Trafficking-Security Nexus: Targeting the Organised Crime Threat.
Senior Investigation Specialist Simon Marsh participated in a panel discussion at the Illegal Wildlife Trade conference in London on 11 and 12 October 2018.
Hosted by the UK Government, the conference brought together global leaders to help eradicate illegal wildlife trade and better protect the world’s most iconic species from the threat of extinction.
The panel starts at 17:32.