The WU Global Tax Policy Center (GTPC) at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business launched and ran the Tax and Good Governance Project from 2015-2018.

The project identified links between corruption, the lack of business and political integrity and tax crimes. It promoted the concepts of good tax governance and the importance of a corrupt-free and transparent tax system in achieving economic development. It also covered how law enforcement agencies and tax authorities can cooperate to counter corruption and bribery.

This project of the Hacia La Integridad Collective Action initiative is implemented by the UNODC field office in Colombia, with the support of its headquarters in Vienna. It seeks to increase public and private dialogue and knowledge sharing to strengthen the development and implementation of measures addressed at corruption prevention, criminalisation and enforcement in line with the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

This is achieved by:

The project aimed to enforce a “Healthcare Integrity System” in the Italian healthcare sector to improve the national healthcare sector’s efficiency and to reduce the risk of corruption through transparency, integrity and accountability. The project aimed to increase the awareness of corruption, educate and train, and implement and test innovative anti-corruption tools and organizational models through Collective Action initiatives with hospitals, Local Health Authorities (LHA), civil society and companies.

The main objectives of the project were to:

The project aimed to prevent corruption and create fair market conditions in Spain by improving corporate governance in the private sector and enhancing transparency in public services and procurement. The impact of this project was an improvement in quality of the corporate governance system. Throughout implementation, the project examined:

The Transparency International Secretariat will promote business integrity at three levels (individual businesses, groups of businesses, and the business environment), all of which are underpinned by Collective Action.

In order to achieve the objective of facilitating change at scale, the project aimed to improve the capacity of Transparency International to work as a catalyst for Collective Action at national level in multiple countries and advocate improved standards, norms and practices within international fora and initiatives. This involved:

The MedKompas initiative of POLMED has focused on fighting corruption and raising the importance of compliance in healthcare systems in Poland since 2010. POLMED believes that if the gap between the legislation and people’s values and social norms is too large, then even the most restrictive legal regulations will not help to fight corruption. This is why the activities are geared towards shaping ethical values in the public and private healthcare sectors.

During the MedKompas II project, POLMED:

This project enhanced the level of transparency and accountability in business transactions in the energy sector in Africa. The goal of the project was two-fold:

The project aims to strengthen the corporate governance framework of Russian companies in line with international compliance standards in order to promote good practices of corporate governance and business integrity. The objectives of the project are threefold:

The project promoted clean business and fair market conditions in Morocco through supporting an anti-­corruption policy framework, Collective Action and integrity training in public procurement.

The project assisted government, business partners and civil society in Morocco in enabling change and promoting business integrity in selected sectors by:

The Fair Player Club endeavored to provide business participants and stakeholders with knowledge, skills, strategies, and resources to promote anti-corruption dialogue and Collective Action as well as to advance ethical practices and transparency in business operations within their industry, region, and country by engaging with industry associations, local and foreign chambers of commerce, central and metropolitan city governments, and foreign embassies in South Korea throughout the three-year project.