Business integrity for companies: workshop on good practices
How can companies contribute to a corruption-free business environment in order to create an innovative level playing field for sustainable and successful business?
2023 Annual Report: Foreword by Peter Maurer
Published today, the 2023 Annual Report of the Basel Institute on Governance features seven stories from our work around the world to promote good governance and counter corruption.
The stories showcase different ways in which we collaborate with partners globally to advance knowledge, practice and policy on anti-corruption, asset recovery and business integrity. They illustrate not just what we do, but how we work to achieve real and lasting progress towards a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
Annual Report 2023
The 2023 Annual Report of the Basel Institute on Governance features seven stories from our work around the world to promote good governance and counter corruption. They illustrate not just what we do, but how we work to achieve real and lasting progress towards a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
The stories showcase different ways in which we collaborate with partners worldwide to advance knowledge, practice and policy on anti-corruption, asset recovery and business integrity:
Collective Action Awards: vote now!
Public voting has opened for this year’s prestigious Collective Action Awards.
Launched in 2022, the 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: “Outstanding Achievement” and “Inspirational Newcomer”.
Building follow-the-money skills and networks to target environmental crime syndicates
The illegal wildlife trade is operating at an industrial scale. It has a direct impact on the accelerating rate of biodiversity loss and deprives local communities of sustainable livelihoods.
Train-the-trainer programme in Zambia to build on asset recovery momentum
The Basel Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) has marked the beginning of a new “train-the-trainer” programme in Zambia with a successful course on financial investigations and asset recovery.
The train-the-trainer programme aims to increase local training capacity by equipping five local anti-corruption professionals with the skills to become qualified ICAR trainers over the course of five workshops, while simultaneously training up to 125 other participants.
Basel Institute seeks an Executive Director
After the passing of Gretta Fenner in early April 2024, we are now looking for a new leader.
We are advertising for a highly skilled and motivated Executive Director with a strong personality, thought leadership and charisma, who has a genuine commitment to the mission and strategy of the Basel Institute and is keen to pursue their implementation and development.
Peruvian region takes an important step towards protecting forests from corruption
The regional government of San Martín, Peru has approved a significant new regulation to protect its forests from the devastating impact of illegal logging. This regulation aims to disrupt corruption in forest management, preventing “wood washing” by revolutionising the procedure and system for approving transport permits (guías de transporte forestal).
OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
Paris, Vilnius, Basel: Business integrity goes on tour
Paris is known as the city of love. But once a year, during the OECD Global Anti-Corruption Forum (GACIF), it also becomes the beating heart of integrity – at least for the anti-corruption community.
Under the theme “Designing our future with integrity”, this year’s Forum brought together anti-corruption experts from business, government and civil society from around the world to explore trends in the fight for integrity and against corruption.