This presentation by Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of Public Governance at the Basel Institute on Governance, explains the latest evidence on informality and its role in preventing and combating corruption.
Her presentation is based on research conducted in East and Central Africa for the UK-funded Global Integrity-Anti Corruption Evidence Programme (GI-ACE).
Malawi has taken another positive step towards protecting the country’s wildlife, forests and other natural resources from illegal exploitation facilitated by corrupt practices.
Senior officers from Malawi’s main environmental and law enforcement agencies came together on 15-17 February 2023 for a three-day workshop led by the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption team. Together, the officers explored how to conduct systematic corruption risk assessments and develop targeted corruption risk mitigation plans for their agencies.
This case study describes how Switzerland is putting to test a rarely used but powerful law in order to confiscate assets connected to Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity, with the aim of returning these to Ukraine.
Key points:
This virtual event explored the use of illicit enrichment laws or unexplained wealth laws to recover the proceeds of corruption and other crimes.
Topics included:
The event drew on case experiences from Uganda, Kenya and Mauritius.
To celebrate International Women's Day 2022, the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators brought together four inspiring women for a conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion within organisations.
The event, which took place virtually, features:
This public briefing follows the publication of the 11th Public Edition of the Basel AML Index, a leading country risk ranking for money laundering and terrorist financing.
Basel AML Index project lead Kateryna Boguslavska explained the key findings of the 2022 Index and report. This was followed by a Q&A with the participants.
Iker Lekuona, Head of Programmes at the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery, made opening remarks.
Hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance as part of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Learning Series, this webinar addressed three learning questions:
Hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance as part of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Learning Series, this webinar explored how internal controls could be key to preventing corruption linked to the environment and natural resource management.
It addressed four learning questions:
This Knowledge Partner session at the 2021 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum explored how practitioners could tailor approaches to strengthen integrity during an emergency response to counter recurrent social norms and informal practices.
Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of Public Governance at the Basel Institute on Governance, moderated a panel of experts in health, anti-corruption and behavioural research:
This virtual event focused on waste trafficking, a topic that receives little attention despite generating significant criminal proceeds (estimates suggest up to USD 12 billion per year). In addition to the financial costs, waste trafficking has enormous impacts for the environment, including from pollution or degradation, and inhibits development by fuelling corruption and poverty in some countries.