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:
At the second public Follow-the-Money Working Group meeting for 2024, Ian Gary and Julia Yansura of the FACT Coalition will talk about the United States' role in tackling illicit financial flows related to environmental crimes in the Amazon.
The meeting will be held on Zoom in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and French. It is open to current members of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum and its Follow-the-Money Working Group, as well as those potentially interested in joining.
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:
For the first time ever, the Munich Security Conference on 16-18 February is putting corruption on the agenda.
Gretta Fenner, Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance, will moderate a panel discussion on 16 February at 15:30 featuring:
How can corruption affect peace and security? Where does corruption influence or intersect with geopolitics? And how can peace-building and anti-corruption serve a common goal?
A two-hour workshop at Basel Peace Forum 2024, organised by Swisspeace, delved into these questions and more. Moderated by Gretta Fenner, Managing Director at the Basel Institute on Governance, the panel looked at some of the most critical intersections of corruption, security, peace and geopolitics.