This online event launched the Basel Institute’s new report: How corruption threatens the forests of Ukraine: Typology and case studies on corruption and illegal logging.
Opening remarks:
Research team:
The Basel Institute has published a comprehensive new analysis of corruption and illegal logging in Ukraine. Juhani Grossmann, who leads the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme, explains what it covers and why the report comes at a crucial time for Ukraine and its partners.
In a speech at the Anti-Corruption and National Security policy forum in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Basel Institute's President Peter Maurer commended how the Summit for Democracy is finally putting corruption at the centre of the debate about global peace and stability. He called on leaders in government, civil society and the private sector to work together to turn their commitments into action.
Illegal fishing was the theme of the first Follow-the-Money (FTM) Working Group meeting on 15 March 2023. The Basel Institute on Governance leads this Working Group as part of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum, an initiative of the Basel Institute, WWF, TRAFFIC and Transparency International.
What is the role of business in reducing illicit financial flows in the Southern Africa subregion? How is it evolving? What can businesses do to address corruption and money laundering risks in order to boost market growth and development and to strengthen governance systems?
The second Summit for Democracy on 29–30 March 2023 will shine a spotlight on corruption as a threat to democracy, peace and security. And in the context of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the security implications of state capture and strategic corruption will no doubt be at centre stage.
An initiative of US President Biden, the Summit seeks both high-level commitments and ground-level actions to advance democracy, fight corruption and counter authoritarianism.
The newsletter covers recent highlights at the Basel Institute in 2023, including a new Working Paper on confiscating sanctioned assets, the launch of our Collective Action Award for Southern Africa and corruption risk assessment training for environmental agencies in Malawi. It also features our latest news, blogs and other publications, as well as guest articles from friends of the Basel Institute. We take this chance to welcome 10 new staff members to the team.
The Basel Institute on Governance, the Ministry of Justice of Bulgaria and the Center for the Study of Democracy co-hosted a policy forum on anti-corruption and national security on 21 March 2023.
The policy forum provided a platform for cooperation for government and civil society representatives from Southeast Europe and their international peers, under the anti-corruption cohort of the Summit for Democracy.
The all-day meeting took place in person in Sofia, Bulgaria. Online attendance via Zoom was open to all.
The forum explored:
In last week’s interview on how Collective Action has cut corruption in Nigerian ports, Cecilia Müller Torbrand of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network and Soji Apampa of the Convention on Business Integrity explained their data-driven approach and the measurable impact it has had.
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) delivers leading examples of Collective Action against corruption around the world and Nigeria is one of its flagship success stories. In collaboration with the Convention on Business Integrity (CBi), the initiative has kept seafarers calling at Nigerian ports safe from corrupt demands since 2019.