Collective Action to promote integrity

Monica Guy

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The purpose of this document is to present the concept of Collective Action applicable in the context of enhancing integrity and combating corruption in Customs.

The document introduces the theme and outlines what Collective Action is, the context in which it may take place, the practicalities involved, the barriers to be faced and the issues to be considered when such initiatives are launched.

Reporting Guidance on the 10th Principle Against Corruption

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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This report provides a succinct, practical guide to what anti-corruption aspects companies should report on.

It equips business with a practical means to report on anti-corruption policies and actions comprehensively and effectively. Public reporting sends a strong signal to employees, investors and consumers that a company is serious about clean business.

Promoting Anti-Corruption Collective Action through Global Compact Local Networks

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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This guide helps businesses to learn more about the UN Global Compact Collection Action Project in partnership with five Global Compact Local Networks in Brazil, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.

It also aims to help improve anti-corruption practices within their individual organizations and to engage other businesses, governments and civil society in anti-corruption Collective Action.

The Case for Integrity Pacts: Engaging Civil Society for Better Public Procurement Outcomes

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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Integrity Pacts have been used in more than 18 countries worldwide, among others in Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, South Korea and Zambia. They have been implemented at various levels and across numerous sectors.

This paper includes an overview of how an Integrity Pact can be initiated and their benefits. 

Guide to Corporate Sustainability

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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This report lays out five defining features of corporate sustainability, which the Global Compact asks businesses to strive towards. It looks at why each element is essential, how business can move forward and what the Global Compact is doing to help.

The five elements are:

  1. Principled business
  2. Strengthening society
  3. Leadership commitment
  4. Reporting progress
  5. Local action

Together Against Corruption: Transparency International Strategy 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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Together against Corruption provides the strategic framework for Transparency International’s (TI) collective ambition and actions for the years 2016-2020. The movement’s fourth strategy, it builds on the rich diversity of the TI movement, with its unique governance structure that includes independent national chapters, individual members and an international secretariat.

Recognising the local realities in which TI operates, this strategy does not intend to cover everything we do. Rather, it focuses on the key areas in which TI seeks to move forward collectively.

The Wolfsberg Group

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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This article illustrates an early example of corporate Collective Action, the Wolfsberg Group, and charts its development from its inception, in 1999, up to 2012. The Wolfsberg Group is an association of eleven banks that took its name from the Château Wolfsberg where the banks held their first meetings and where they continue to hold their annual forum.

Thailand's Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
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This case focuses on a private sector initiative to fight deep-seated corruption in Thailand.

The Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption (CAC) was founded by a charismatic business scion in late 2010, but an untimely heart attack a few months later left CAC reeling. A new leader named Bandid Nijathaworn was suddenly responsible for delivering the rapid growth and good-faith commitments that his predecessor had envisioned.

Steps Taken by State Parties to Implement and Enforce the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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This document compiles participating countries’ own listings of the steps they have taken and plan to take to ratify and implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, as of the December 2012 Working Group on Bribery meeting.