New policy brief: Curbing wildlife trafficking in Uganda – lessons for practitioners

A new policy brief published as part of our Institute-wide Green Corruption programme offers a fresh perspective for practitioners and policymakers seeking to curb wildlife trafficking in Uganda. It emphasises context-sensitive interventions that are based on understanding the behaviours of individuals and social networks. 

4th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies - Interpol

The 4th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, hosted by Interpol, will take place virtually this year on 18-19 November 2020. 

Co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance, Interpol and Europol, the conference gathers cryptocurrency experts, money laundering investigators and other law enforcement representatives from around the world. 

“Ethics and Compliance Manager” Occupational Standards

TEİD has advocated for the ethics and compliance function as a recognised profession and has prepared the profession profile and description with the related authority, the Turkish Vocational Qualifications Authority (VQA). The official national “Ethics and Compliance Manager” occupational standard (level 6) has been acknowledged and published on the Official Gazette on June 2018. 

Last updated: 21.10.2020

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Publicly Traded Companies Ethics Standards

A Declaration of Integrity for Publicly Traded Companies was signed in January 2016.

The “Integrity Principles for Publicly Traded Companies” in collaboration with the Association of Listed Companies (KOTEDER) are the first step forward for encouraging publicly traded companies to have a dedicated ethics and compliance department and fulfil ethics reporting requirements by sharing those reports online with all their stakeholders.

Last updated: 27.04.2021

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Peru’s Innovation Week showcases training concept of our Public Finance Management team

How do you carry out training for 5,000+ public officials across Peru during a pandemic? Our local Public Finance Management team explained how they achieved this at the country’s recent National Innovation Week. The answer: social media and asynchronous communication.

Thanks in part to the unconventional use of social networking tools like Facebook and WhatsApp for distance learning, the training initiative is now snowballing. Joint workshops have been taking place with government ministries and civil society organisations across all regions.

Collective Action against illegal wildlife trade: Engaging freight forwarders and logistics providers

Monica Guy

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This report emerges from the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme, a multi-disciplinary engagement that targets environmental degradation through tested anti-corruption, asset recovery and governance methods. It was funded by PMI Impact as part of a wider project on intelligence-led on financial crime in illegal wildlife trade (IWT).

Working Paper 33: A worm’s-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
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This Working Paper is a key output of the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme, a multi-disciplinary engagement that targets environmental degradation through tested anti-corruption, asset recovery and governance methods. The research is funded by PMI Impact as part of a wider project on intelligence-led on financial crime in illegal wildlife trade (IWT).

Malawi achieves first non-conviction based forfeiture order and takes a step forward in tackling corruption and recovering stolen assets

Congratulations to Malawi on achieving the first ever non-conviction based forfeiture order under the new Financial Crimes Act of 2017. We are delighted to have been able to support our partners in Malawi's Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Financial Intelligence Authority and Malawi Police Service in this precedent-setting case.