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Our existing learning opportunities meet these needs and empower communities of international professionals.\n\nWith advanced continuing education opportunities, we want to take learning and skills development to the next level. And in doing so, help new generations of professionals to enhance their competencies and careers.\n\n### What are your continuing education needs?\n\nWhat kind of learning opportunities are we talking about? Jörg Schmidt, the Basel Institute's Senior Specialist for Continuing Education, says:\n\n> At the Basel Institute, we would like to define continuing education in the broadest sense as _ongoing learning activities that empower professionals by allowing them to enhance their skills and knowledge_.\n\nWe would love your support and involvement in shaping our continuing education offerings as they evolve. Please [share your ideas in our survey](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fmod\u002Ffeedback\u002Fview.php?id=11440).\n\nDon't \"do\" surveys? [Contact Jörg directly](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fabout\u002Fpeople\u002Fjorg-schmidt) with your ideas and feedback.\n\n### Existing learning opportunities\n\nOur planned continuing education offerings build on the Basel Institute’s efforts over two decades to empower practitioners in the fight against financial crime through training, learning and skills development including:\n\n*   [Basel LEARN](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002F): free self-paced eLearning courses\n*   [Intensive training on financial investigations and asset recovery](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) for law enforcement and judicial agencies\n*   Academic teaching on anti-corruption and public financial management at acclaimed universities and academies, including the University of Basel and the International Anti-Corruption Academy\n*   Short courses, free webinars, conferences and other [events](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fevents-courses) for peer learning on specific topics\n*   Tailored training on [corruption prevention](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fteam\u002Fprevention-research-innovation) as well as [compliance and corporate governance](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fprivate-sector)\n\nOur approach draws on the hands-on experience of our global expert networks, spanning the fields of anti-corruption, asset recovery and business integrity. We seek to balance academic rigour and practical applicability.\n\nBased on our experience, we favour tech-driven, blended learning approaches with opportunities for in-person connections and peer learning.\n\n### Learn more and give your input\n\n*   [Fill in the short survey here](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fmod\u002Ffeedback\u002Fview.php?id=11440).\n*   [Sign up to receive updates by email](https:\u002F\u002Fmailchi.mp\u002Fbaselgovernance\u002Fcontinuing-education).","2024-06-18","continuing-education-for-professionals-help-us-to-meet-your-needs-2643","Continuing education for professionals: help us to meet your needs!","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F33efa62b-ab43-478c-8092-5827c7654449?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[],[10],[54],"Training",[56],{"tags_id":57},{"id":58,"name":59},1300,"Education",2643,[],[54],[],[],[66],"Main page",[],"2024-06-18T16:01:39.000Z","dfef11db-1bc6-47e9-a61d-93443995484b","2026-05-08T21:11:11.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fcontinuing-education-for-professionals-help-us-to-meet-your-needs-2643",{"id":74,"body":75,"status":6,"type":76,"date":77,"slug":78,"title":79,"image":80,"countries":81,"topic":82,"activity":86,"tags":89,"nid":107,"topics":108,"activities":111,"authors":112,"images":113,"websites":114,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":19,"translations":115,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":116,"user_updated":117,"date_updated":118,"content":119,"link":120},10549,"As corruption becomes more sophisticated, anti-corruption training must keep pace. In a recent [webinar](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnode\u002F2775), experts from the Basel Institute shared insights on how technology has strengthened training efforts for law enforcement practitioners worldwide. They also explored exciting new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to further enhance training and learning experiences.\n\nThis webinar was provided in support of the [FALCON project](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.falcon-horizon.eu\u002F)\\*, showcasing technological tools and best practices to aid the Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks. As Jacopo Costa, Senior Specialist in Prevention, Research and Innovation, explained, one of FALCON’s key objectives is to explore how technology and AI solutions can be leveraged to innovate the fight against corruption.\n\n### eLearning: from passive reading to engaged learning\n\nPeter Huppertz, Head of IT and eLearning, offered a number of recommendations on how to make eLearning effective and efficient for learners. Central to his message was that the _delivery_ is as important as the _content_.\n\n> Too much online learning is passive and disconnected from practitioners’ real-life tasks and needs.\n\nThe Basel Institute’s [eLearning](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fbasel-learn) method is built around active participation – and technology is crucial to this learning method. Participants complete simulated investigations step by step on the [Basel LEARN](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org) platform. They must complete certain tasks correctly in order to progress to the next phase of investigation.\n\nPeter demonstrated these interactive features by taking webinar participants through a few steps of our popular [Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=79) course. His demonstration showed how the learning journey is supported by content taken from actual cases that expose participants to what they need to do in real life. By developing courses in collaboration with subject matter experts, we ensure that the materials reflect real investigative mechanisms rather than abstract theories.\n\nAt its best, eLearning offers remarkable flexibility and individualisation. Once a programme is developed it can be easily scaled up (Basel LEARN now reaches nearly 60,000 users). By employing open source software, the learning management system can be tailored to the specific needs of the training programme. This is especially useful when we deliver our custom-made in-person, in-country [training programmes](http:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) for law enforcement and other anti-corruption practitioners.\n\n### Blended learning – the best of both worlds\n\nBlended learning – combining instructor-led, in-person training and self-paced eLearning – has become a cornerstone of our training programmes, which have seen more than 4000 participants in over 40 countries over 17 years.\n\nThese training programmes are targeted at government agencies in partner countries to help them develop their capacities on financial investigation and asset recovery. They have been designed to mirror the complexity of real investigations, where investigators search for evidence by analysing financial data and untangling complex legal structures, hidden ownership and cross-border flows.\n\nIn our trainings, participants investigate a corruption case, uncovering pieces of evidence by locating information and replicating the procedural and legal steps from their own jurisdictions. Thierry Ravalomanda, Head of ICAR Training, explained that this approach enhances participants’ sense of ownership and autonomy. These are critical motivation factors in adult learning.\n\nIn the past, these simulated investigations were paper-based. Now, with the Basel LEARN platform integrated into our face-to-face training, participants are able to immerse themselves into more realistic investigative environments. They are also able to continue to learn and practise their skills once the training ends.\n\nImportantly, the human aspect is still central in our trainings. They are delivered by experienced investigators, prosecutors and financial intelligence analysts who provide guidance as participants work their way through the investigative scenarios. Participants also always work in groups with the LEARN platform, fostering cross-agency collaboration. As Thierry noted:\n\n> “We need everyone – FIUs, prosecutors, judges and law enforcement – to speak the same language and understand the investigative process together”.\n\n### Taking blended learning a step further\n\nBlended learning will also be a key aspect of our [new postgraduate programmes](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fstudy), presented during the webinar by Jörg Schmidt, Senior Specialist, Continuing Education. Delivered in partnership with the University of Basel, the programmes combine academic foundations with new research and real-world practitioner experience.\n\nMuch of the degree courses will be delivered online, with hybrid introduction and conclusion sessions. Hence, the courses will draw on the Basel Institute’s extensive experience with eLearning and blended learning. They will employ technology to ensure that online modules are interactive, collaborative and closer to real-world experiences.\n\n### Expanding educational frontiers: the possibilities of AI\n\nAI is already being explored by the Basel Institute as a valuable enhancement for eLearning and on-site training.\n\nFor example, Peter demonstrated a new AI-generated witness interview course activity, which replaces the traditional written interview summary document. The activity allows training participants to actively engage with AI-prompted witnesses by posing questions and receiving realistic responses – a step closer to a real-life interview. As the technology improves, we will integrate this model in other training programmes, for example in our training on interviewing skills for financial investigators.\n\nApart from enhancing participant engagement, AI is also useful for creating training content and eLearning courses. It can assist in creating content such as quiz questions and translating trainings into different languages. It can also help with assessing participant performance, which provides valuable data on the effectiveness of our courses.\n\n### Technology-supported training enhances effectiveness\n\nBasel Institute eLearning courses and training programmes have demonstrated the effectiveness of digital tools in training anti-corruption professionals around the world. As technology becomes more powerful, it can help us to provide better training to tackle the increasingly complex and evolving landscape in which law enforcement and other anti-corruption practitioners work.\n\nClaudia Baez Camargo, Director of our Prevention, Research and Innovation team, who moderated the webinar, concluded the session with these words:\n\n> It shouldn't be about people just becoming lazy and using AI rather than doing their work. It is about making people more productive. It is about us being able to deliver more complex, more sophisticated tools that go with our training, that go with our teaching, that make the experience a lot more immersive and interesting than it would otherwise be.\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   Watch the webinar [recordings](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fplaylist?list=PLYRnhpCcnLP_sjdirwTJ6Y5gALYHZ8pMn).\n*   Read the FALCON policy brief “[Recommendations for leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fight against corruption](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.falcon-horizon.eu\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002Fsites\u002F6\u002F2025\u002F04\u002F2025_04_22-FALCON-policy-brief-02_Leveraging-AI-in-the-fight-against-coruption.pdf)”.\n\n\\*The FALCON project is funded by the EU HORIZON programme under grant agreement 101121281. The Basel Institute's participation is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).","Blog","2025-05-12","enhancing-law-enforcement-training-with-technology-and-ai-2807","Enhancing law enforcement training with technology and AI","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fb7a89535-6b18-431a-aaba-9d5ac700090a?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[],[83,84,85],"Asset Recovery","Prevention"," Research and Innovation",[87,88],"Events","Insights",[90,94,96,99,103],{"tags_id":91},{"id":92,"name":93},1289,"Artificial intelligence",{"tags_id":95},{"id":58,"name":59},{"tags_id":97},{"id":98,"name":54},1372,{"tags_id":100},{"id":101,"name":102},1377,"Technology",{"tags_id":104},{"id":105,"name":106},1374,"Law enforcement",2807,[109,110],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement","Prevention Research and Innovation",[87,88],[],[],[66],[],"2025-05-12T10:01:38.000Z","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6","2026-05-29T22:22:36.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fenhancing-law-enforcement-training-with-technology-and-ai-2807",{"id":122,"body":123,"status":6,"type":9,"date":124,"slug":125,"title":126,"image":127,"countries":128,"topic":130,"activity":132,"tags":133,"nid":136,"topics":137,"activities":138,"authors":139,"images":140,"websites":141,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":18,"translations":142,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":143,"user_updated":144,"date_updated":145,"content":146,"link":147},9667,"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.\n\nThanks 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.\n\nThe latest events have reached tens of thousands of officials despite continuing coronavirus disruption and less than ideal access to internet and computers.\n\nThe training was developed and is provided free as part of a multi-year [programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-finance-peru) financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs ([SECO](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.seco-cooperation.admin.ch\u002Fsecocoop\u002Fen\u002Fhome\u002Flaender\u002Fperu.html)) in Peru aimed at strengthening standards of public finance management (PFM) at the subnational level. Although the programme is targeted at 11 specific local and regional governments, the use of this innovative training approach has allowed more officials across the country to benefit from the courses and other learning events at no additional cost.\n\n### How it developed – in four stages\n\nThe team has been developing and delivering high-quality training on public finance management topics since the programme launched in 2015. The aim was to complement and support the technical assistance provided to officials from the six regional and five local governments in Peru that the programme targets.\n\nWhen the pandemic broke out, the team was faced with the major challenge of carrying out training in seemingly impossible lockdown conditions. Specialists in technology and adult education came together with technical experts in public financial management to find solutions.\n\nThe first solution was an asynchronous virtual training course on transversal management of administrative systems that could be accessed by learners using their free data plans for Facebook and WhatsApp. In Peru, many phone providers offer limited amounts of free mobile data for these platforms. Despite the lockdown, the course had more than 1,000 graduates from all over the country.\n\nA second response came with the dissemination of remote training through live seminars which included viewer interaction. These events were broadcast on Facebook and reached over 5,000 people.\n\nIn a third step, the team decided to seek synergies with the [PFM Experts Network](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-support-public-finance-management-experts-network-peru) (Red de Expertos GFP), a voluntary association of public finance management experts in Peru. The Experts Network was founded last year by graduates of a university diploma course developed by the Basel Institute’s Peru team during an earlier phase of the programme.\n\nThe Network members stated their willingness to continue working voluntarily to strengthen capacity building, peer learning and the dissemination of good practices in public management issues. Thanks to this collaboration, interviews with experts from Switzerland and Peru have been viewed online more than 50,000 times.\n\nThe PFM team is working on a fourth response, involving training the programme’s technical assistance teams to use the social networks for capacity building of specialists in the subnational governments. The result has been massive training events reaching more than 40,000 people. The [Ministry of the Economy and Finance](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mef.gob.pe\u002Fen\u002F), National Centre for Strategic Planning ([CEPLAN](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gob.pe\u002Fceplan)), Ministry of Education ([MINEDU](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gob.pe\u002Fminedu)) and Ministry of Health ([MINSA](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.minsa.gob.pe\u002F)) have all participated.\n\nThe events exceeded expectations and received registrations from cities beyond those that were originally targeted.\n\n### Find out more\n\n*   [National Innovation Week](http:\u002F\u002Finnovacion.concytec.gob.pe\u002F) is Peru’s major annual innovation conference, bringing together representatives of the public and private sectors as well as academics from around the world. The aim is to facilitate technology transfer and productive innovation.\n*   See the Spanish version of this news article [here](https:\u002F\u002Fgfpsubnacional.pe\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F06\u002Fprograma-gfp-presento-en-la-semana-de-la-innovacion-del-peru-la-propuesta-innovadora-del-aula-gfp\u002F) on the website of the [Subnational PFM Programme](https:\u002F\u002Fgfpsubnacional.pe\u002F).\n*   See an overview of the Swiss [SECO-funded Subnational PFM Programme](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-finance-peru) in English.\n*   Find out about the [Swiss cooperation programme in Peru](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cooperacionsuiza.pe\u002F) (in Spanish)\n*   Read this article by Limberg Chero, Component Leader Sustainability of the PFM Programme, on [how to design a virtual training course that works in your context](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-design-virtual-training-course-works-your-context-experiences-peru).","2020-10-09","perus-innovation-week-showcases-training-concept-of-our-public-finance-management-team-1896","Peru’s Innovation Week showcases training concept of our Public Finance Management team","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F5a4d5ca0-499e-40b5-a81d-5c3cba25a990?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[129],7386,[131],"Public Finance Management",[54,87],[134],{"tags_id":135},{"id":98,"name":54},1896,[131],[54,87],[],[],[66],[],"2022-05-26T22:54:03.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2025-08-31T23:14:40.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fperus-innovation-week-showcases-training-concept-of-our-public-finance-management-team-1896",{"id":149,"body":150,"status":6,"type":76,"date":151,"slug":152,"title":153,"image":154,"countries":155,"topic":156,"activity":158,"tags":159,"nid":160,"topics":161,"activities":162,"authors":163,"images":164,"websites":165,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":19,"translations":167,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":168,"user_updated":117,"date_updated":169,"content":170,"link":171},10586,"A breakout session at the [9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002F9crc) gathered regulators, supervisors and experts from more than 20 jurisdictions to discuss practical approaches to regulating and supervising cryptoassets. The central aim was to provide hands-on guidance and tips for jurisdictions at early stages of regulating and supervising cryptoassets.\n\nStructured around three key themes – building blocks for regulation, managing cross-border risks, and sustainable cooperation and peer support – the session captured actionable recommendations and insights from global best practices. A follow-up online meeting served to validate and enhance the draft practical recommendations below.\n\n### 1 Base regulatory frameworks on a clear, in-depth understanding of risks\n\n*   Start with a comprehensive national risk assessment that accounts for domestic and cross-border threats, as well as geopolitical factors. Other factors to take into account include market structure, business models, and prudential, conduct, operational and outsourcing risks. \n*   Prioritise quality over quantity in licensing or registration regimes and oversight models to ensure supervisors have adequate capacity to oversee all licensed\u002Fregistered entities. \n*   Consider providing pre-application consultations and enhanced guidance to parties wishing to be licensed as cryptoasset service providers.\n*   Use regulatory sandboxes to test innovative products and collect insights on emerging risks and technologies.\n\n> Advantages of regulatory sandboxes\n> \n> *   Test products and services in a real environment with real users.\n> *   Conduct supervised testing to identify and prevent potential flaws or regulatory breaches before the product’s final rollout.\n> *   Define new regulatory requirements or amend existing ones based on practical, real-world experience.\n\n_Why this matters:_ _A risk-based approach ensures scarce supervisory resources are deployed where it matters the most, thus supporting risk mitigation. Such an approach helps ensure that frameworks evolve as risks and technologies develop._\n\n### 2 Build strong coordination structures across government and sectors\n\n*   Set up structured working groups across relevant authorities, such as the central bank, tax authority, securities regulator, financial intelligence unit and law enforcement agencies, with the aim of enhancing internal coordination and building a common understanding. These groups can help ensure that policymakers integrate enforcement mechanisms at the policy design stage, for example in a stablecoin policy, the technical capability to freeze or block transactions as a condition for compliance. Within the main regulatory authority (such as the central bank), a formal arrangement such as a structured project framework can also enhance coordination. \n*   Establish and\u002For engage in structured public-private partnerships, such as working groups and task forces combining industry practitioners, legal specialists and academic experts, to enhance information sharing and awareness of market developments. Take care however to respect data privacy and other relevant regulations. \n*   Include wider policy goals like innovation, inclusion and economic resilience in regulatory design. \n\n_Why this matters:_ _Crypto markets cut across multiple policy domains. Whole-of-government coordination reduces gaps, aligns priorities and builds resilience against emerging risks._\n\n### 3 Use phased and proactive supervisory engagement\n\n*   Engage directly with industry actors through workshops, compliance days and joint training. Clearly communicate expectations on governance standards, safeguarding of client assets, outsourcing arrangements and technology risk management during early engagement.\n*   Encourage compliance through education rather than enforcement alone. \n*   Use structured questionnaires, interviews and audit reports to risk-rate firms before deciding on onsite or offsite inspections. \n*   Integrate risk-based supervisory models aligned with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations, applying proportional measures based on business models and risk profiles.\n\n_Why this matters:_ _Early-stage regimes benefit from proactive, educative supervision that builds sector capacity and reduces systemic non-compliance._\n\n### 4 Leverage data, traceability and technology\n\n*   Use blockchain analytics & intelligence, open-source intelligence and financial intelligence unit data to develop a comprehensive risk picture. Surveys of relevant market participants – including during on-site supervision – can contribute to a dashboard of aggregated sector data, such as total transaction volume, number of transactions, number of clients and their associated risk levels, as well as cross-border transaction counts and volumes. Common supervisory data also includes detailed information that enables reconciliation and further investigation, including wallet addresses, transaction amounts and ownership details.\n*   Promote interoperability and standardisation of blockchain analytics & intelligence tools for consistent supervision and risk monitoring. \n*   Ensure existing cooperation channels and recovery mechanisms are suited for cryptoassets and adapt the regulatory framework and practice if needed. \n*   Adopt risk-based due diligence, enhanced cooperation and common supervisory templates, ensuring consistency across jurisdictions.\n\n> Blockchain analytics & intelligence applications for regulators and supervisors\n> \n> *   Early-warning systems to identify suspicious transactions and typologies (sanctions evasion, ransomware, market manipulation…).\n> *   Risk profiling that combines blockchain data with traditional supervisory information.\n> *   Cross-agency data fusion linking financial intelligence units, law enforcement and market regulators.\n> *   RegTech–SupTech integration for automated compliance monitoring.\n> *   Creation of regional and global intelligence nodes for secure data exchange.\n\n_Why this matters:_ _Blockchain analytics & intelligence enables supervisors to move from reactive investigation to proactive oversight. This facilitates earlier detection of cross-border risks and supports convergence with AML, prudential and conduct supervision._\n\n### 5 Build capacity and invest in skills and research\n\n*   Invest in specialist training and staffing. Capacity building is not only about training; it can also be built through structured exchange between colleagues responsible for different aspects of cryptoassets, such as AML\u002FCFT and prudential supervision.\n*   Scale supervisory capacity to market size and complexity. \n*   Extend capacity building to cover tokenised assets and smart-contract-based services.\n*   Engage with academic institutions – for example through research partnerships, joint workshops, internships and secondments – to facilitate structured knowledge sharing, rigorous research and the development of evidence-based methodologies. \n\n_Why this matters:_ _Skilled human capital is critical to interpret complex data and manage the diversity of crypto business models._\n\n### 6 Take early action and make full use of existing legislation\n\n*   Leverage existing legal frameworks (e.g. taxation, banking supervision, reporting obligations) to mitigate risks, in addition to and even prior to developing specific legislation. \n*   Circulate inquiries to all already-regulated financial institutions to assess their interactions with crypto-asset markets and to understand their future plans.\n*   Set supervisory expectations to guide financial institutions’ engagement with cryptoassets and services. It may help to communicate the guiding principle of “same activity, same risk, same regulation”, i.e. crypto activities should be subject to the same regulatory standards and supervisory expectations as traditional financial activities when they present similar risks.\n*   Conduct public awareness campaigns and wide consultations to shape proportionate frameworks before full regulation is enacted. \n\n_Why this matters:_ _Early actions increase transparency, guide market behaviour and reduce risk prior to formal frameworks taking effect._\n\n### 7 Strengthen management of cross-border risks and unregulated providers\n\n*   Integrate guidance from the FATF, Financial Stability Board (FSB) and International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) into national regulatory and supervisory frameworks. \n*   Develop cooperation protocols for inspections and enforcement, including for providers outsourcing critical functions abroad. \n*   Assess risks from regulatory arbitrage and passporting and close enforcement gaps that could be exploited, especially by multi-function crypto intermediaries (MCIs). \n*   Issue official communications to inform consumers about market-related risks that may arise over time, for example, about the dangers of dealing with unregistered cryptoasset service providers.\n\n_Why this matters:_ _Cryptoassets operate globally; common standards and cooperative oversight reduce loopholes and prevent unregulated entities from evading supervision._\n\n### 8 Build structured and formalised peer-learning and cooperation channels\n\n*   Consider establishing or participating in supervisory colleges, taskforces and peer-learning networks for information exchange on cryptoasset regulation and supervision. \n*   Use study visits, secondments and technical peer support to accelerate knowledge transfer. \n*   Create secure forums for supervisors to share typologies and risk mitigation strategies.\n\n> Supervisory colleges for cryptoasset supervision\n> \n> A “crypto supervisory college” brings together home\u002Fhost supervisors of major cryptoasset service providers and issuers to coordinate oversight and conduct joint risk assessments, exchange information securely and prepare for coordination in a crisis. Additional members may include competent authorities for AML\u002FCFT, data protection and cybersecurity, as well as third-country authorities. \n\n_Why this matters:_ _Structured cooperation fosters practical learning, mutual trust and consistent supervisory approaches across jurisdictions._\n\n### 9 Engage international institutions and build shared knowledge infrastructure\n\n*   Collaborate with international and regional centres of expertise such as the World Bank, FATF-style regional bodies, Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) and Basel Institute on Governance for training, research and other resources. \n*   Pool resources for joint studies, typologies and tool development. \n*   Contribute to international standard-setting and interoperability initiatives to enhance the quality of blockchain analytics and supervisory data.\n\n_Why this matters:_ _Global collaboration enhances consistency, strengthens intelligence-led oversight and ensures technology is harnessed responsibly for the public good._\n\n### 10 Recommended resources\n\nEssential texts for jurisdictions seeking to develop and enhance their cryptoasset regulation. Consider establishing a crypto knowledge hub for your authority or working group, where staff and members can contribute relevant articles, research, news and resources.\n\nPractical guidance:\n\n[AML\u002FCFT National Risk Assessment on Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers: Guidance Manual](https:\u002F\u002Fopenknowledge.worldbank.org\u002Fentities\u002Fpublication\u002Fbb5a7475-ac52-4697-afdc-5f618a550623) (updated October 2025) and related [tool](https:\u002F\u002Fdocuments.worldbank.org\u002Fen\u002Fpublication\u002Fdocuments-reports\u002Fdocumentdetail\u002F099710107122245889) – The World Bank. _A practical tool and guidance to help countries assess money laundering and terrorist financing risks linked to virtual asset activities and virtual asset service providers in line with FATF Recommendation 15._\n\n[Best Practices on Travel Rule Supervision](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fatf-gafi.org\u002Fcontent\u002Fdam\u002Ffatf-gafi\u002Frecommendations\u002FBest-Practices-Travel-Rule-Supervision.pdf) – Financial Action Task Force (FATF). _A set of good practices to help jurisdictions supervise and implement the FATF Travel Rule to enhance payment transparency and mitigate money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing risks._\n\n[Guidelines on supervisory practices to prevent and detect market abuse under MiCA](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.esma.europa.eu\u002Fdocument\u002Fguidelines-supervisory-practices-prevent-and-detect-market-abuse-under-mica) – European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). _Guidelines to promote consistent and effective supervisory practices under MiCA for preventing and detecting market abuse in cryptoassets, including insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation._\n\nTrends and progress:\n\n[Thematic Review on FSB Global Regulatory Framework for Crypto-asset Activities](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fsb.org\u002F2025\u002F10\u002Fthematic-review-on-fsb-global-regulatory-framework-for-crypto-asset-activities\u002F) – Financial Stability Board (FSB). _A review of global progress and remaining gaps in implementing the FSB’s 2023 regulatory framework for cryptoasset activities and stablecoins, with recommendations to strengthen consistent and resilient regulation._\n\n[Thematic Review Assessing the Implementation of IOSCO Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset Markets](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iosco.org\u002Flibrary\u002Fpubdocs\u002Fpdf\u002FIOSCOPD801.pdf) – International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). _An assessment of how selected jurisdictions are implementing IOSCO’s 18 policy recommendations for regulating crypto and digital assets to support market integrity and investor protection._\n\n[Targeted Update on Implementation of the FATF Standards on Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fatf-gafi.org\u002Fcontent\u002Fdam\u002Ffatf-gafi\u002Frecommendations\u002F2025-Targeted-Upate-VA-VASPs.pdf.coredownload.pdf) – Financial Action Task Force (FATF). _An update on progress and continuing challenges in implementing FATF Recommendation 15 for virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, including insights on emerging risks._\n\n[Advancing in tandem – results of the 2024 BIS Survey on Central Bank Digital Currencies and Crypto](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bis.org\u002Fpubl\u002Fbppdf\u002Fbispap159.htm) - Bank for International Settlements (BIS). _A summary of the 2024 BIS survey showing how central banks are advancing work on retail and wholesale CBDCs alongside growing regulation of stablecoins, rising use of cryptoassets and increasing interest in tokenisation._","2025-11-25","designing-robust-cryptoasset-frameworks-practical-takeaways-from-international-regulators-and-supervisors-2880","Designing robust cryptoasset frameworks: Practical takeaways from international regulators and supervisors","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fe78a30fa-3c74-4812-b35e-27eaa2f2cc3a?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[],[157,83],"Anti-Money Laundering",[88],[],2880,[157,109],[88],[],[],[166,66],"Basel AML Index",[],"2025-12-02T11:01:41.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:39.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fdesigning-robust-cryptoasset-frameworks-practical-takeaways-from-international-regulators-and-supervisors-2880",{"id":173,"body":174,"status":6,"type":76,"date":175,"slug":176,"title":177,"image":178,"countries":179,"topic":180,"activity":181,"tags":182,"nid":183,"topics":184,"activities":185,"authors":186,"images":189,"websites":190,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":18,"translations":191,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":192,"user_updated":144,"date_updated":145,"content":193,"link":194},10435,"_This blog was originally published on the FCPA Blog, which was discontinued in February 2024._\n\nThankfully, the economist-led debates in the 1990s about whether corruption is the necessary grease in the wheels of business are long behind. But we would argue that many people, including those most affected by it and possibly even those that are in the anti-corruption business, still don’t fully grasp what corruption does to our world.\n\nWhat’s wrong with a Head of State taking money from companies who want to win public contracts, especially if otherwise he or she seems to be running the country in an acceptable way? Hard to believe but I still get this question often. The answer seems obvious, but it seems the connection between corruption and lack of education or public healthcare is not an automatic one for many people. Thankfully, a few real-life examples usually suffice to demonstrate it.\n\nTaking the obvious next step of acknowledging that corruption is a direct impediment to the enjoyment of human rights already takes more convincing. But in our view, it is crystal clear: States that fail to effectively prevent and punish corruption are in direct violation of their obligations under international human rights treaties.\n\nOur security is protected by police, and terrorism is the business of radicals — or so we think. Yet Transparency International’s 2017 Global Corruption Barometer ranks the police as the most corrupt public institution. It is said that corrupt security services were the cause for a heavily delayed response to the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya in 2013. What that means is that people died as a direct result of corruption. Frustration about corruption pushes young people into associating with radical groups as these offer an opportunity to vent their anger. Terrorism flourishes where corruption is rife.\n\nWhy can criminal networks engaged in illegal trafficking in humans, arms and wildlife products operate so freely? Because they can bribe their way through customs and out of courts. And when they have laundered the proceeds of their crimes successfully through the international financial system, they can use these same monies to continue their criminal enterprises.\n\nFinally, let us not forget that when money buys votes, when money buys influence, when money buys politicians, when the media is co-opted by corrupt networks, we lose our fundamental right to participate in the destiny of our countries and consequently of our lives. Institutions of democracy, when undermined by corruption, as they sadly are to varying degrees almost everywhere in the world today, become a farce. They end up protecting rotten systems behind a pretty face.\n\nIs this reason enough to fight corruption? We certainly think so. The international community missed a critical opportunity when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) failed to list anti-corruption as one of their 17 high-level principles. We firmly believe that corruption is the root cause of most if not all hurdles to development; and as long as corruption prevails, achieving the SDGs will remain elusive.\n\nMaybe we have just seen this being corrected this week, which saw the first UN Security Council session on the relationship between corruption and conflict. Maybe we have just experienced the start of a new era for the fight against corruption, one that finally connects corruption to the reasons for which we need to eradicate corruption. To conflict and security, humanitarian crises, human rights, poverty and democracy. Many member states reported proudly about their efforts to eradicate corruption, and to hear this in the UN Security Council is an important first step. But we have heard similar statements many times in the past two decades in other important fora, and yet our global and domestic political and economic structures are possibly more undermined by corruption today than before the signing of the UN Convention against Corruption.\n\nIf elevating this topic to the UN Security Council should have any impact, we need to keep the pressure on and hold member states to account for what they promise in these high-level debates. And we, as anti-corruption practitioners, must be better at breaking thought barriers between our community and that of related areas, so that anti-corruption action is not happening in a silo but connected to where its impact may not be easily visible but where it does the greatest damage to our world.","2018-09-13","fcpa-blog-will-the-un-security-council-finally-take-up-the-fight-against-corruption-2605","FCPA Blog: Will the UN Security Council (finally) take up the fight against corruption?","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Faeb7dba7-8a3b-49c9-b84e-258f5eb52e04?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[],[10],[10],[],2605,[],[],[187,188],1031,1032,[],[66],[],"2024-03-19T11:01:54.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Ffcpa-blog-will-the-un-security-council-finally-take-up-the-fight-against-corruption-2605",{"id":196,"body":197,"status":6,"type":9,"date":198,"slug":199,"title":200,"image":201,"countries":202,"topic":203,"activity":204,"tags":205,"nid":206,"topics":207,"activities":208,"authors":209,"images":210,"websites":211,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":18,"translations":212,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":213,"user_updated":117,"date_updated":214,"content":215,"link":216},10526,"[Training](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) and related capacity-building assistance of our International Centre for Asset Recovery ([ICAR](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery)) are: “driving meaningful shifts within the institutions of partner countries, and enhancing their effectiveness in addressing corruption and related crimes”.\n\nThat is the conclusion of an independent qualitative study by Fondazione Safe, based on interviews with training participants in Africa and Europe. The in-depth report confirms the effectiveness of our training team’s approach, shown in brief in this video:\n\n\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fvideos.baselgovernance.org\u002Fvideos\u002Fembed\u002Fedbead05-f2f7-4f59-948f-7174b42094b0?title=0&warningTitle=0&peertubeLink=0&p2p=0\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\n### Relevant and practical skills lead to results\n\nThe independent survey shows that by equipping participants with practical skills and tools relevant to their everyday challenges, ICAR courses make a “significant” and “broad” impact on their work.\n\nInterviewees noted improved skills in financial investigations and in prosecutorial and law enforcement strategies. They also highlighted their improved ability to collaborate on cases with other agencies and to respond to requests for cross-border cooperation.\n\nThis has led to tangible outcomes. For example:\n\n*   One law enforcement officer described using their improved skills in evidence gathering to link a vehicle involved in illegal cross-border trafficking to the crime. The vehicle was successfully confiscated.\n*   Another participant used the “follow the money” principle underlying the training to identify a corruption scheme involving public officials who were hiding bribes behind figureheads – leading to a successful resolution of the case and recovery of misappropriated assets.\n\n### The multiplier effect\n\nThe impact of ICAR training courses goes beyond individual participants. Participants tend to share their newly acquired knowledge with colleagues or counterparts from other agencies and organisations.\n\nSometimes this happens through formal channels, like written summaries and presentations by trainees. Often it’s more informal: through asset recovery taskforces, inter-agency commissions, or simply by helping out colleagues with their cases.\n\nThe report estimates that for every participant of an ICAR course, new knowledge and skills reach 8–15 additional practitioners.\n\nUltimately, this “multiplicative” transfer of skills has resulted in the collection of higher-quality evidence for use in court, and an enhanced ability to effectively combat crime and recover assets.\n\n### Lasting collaboration and knowledge sharing\n\nThe collaborative nature of ICAR training courses has also fostered enduring professional knowledge sharing and inter-agency collaboration.\n\nThe group activities and exercises that are integral to ICAR training programmes require extensive interaction and problem solving in inter-agency teams. This helps participants build trust and establish new relationships.\n\nThese relationships last. Many interviewees reported regular communication, for example, to initiate and follow up on cases, to seek technical advice and to make requests for information. They said that these informal communication channels are crucial for speed and efficiency.\n\nInterviewees also report sharing insights and updates on evolving methodologies and best practices, and seek advice or support on challenging cases. This is a vital boost to their individual and institutional capacities.\n\n### So what?\n\nThierry Ravalomanda, who leads the ICAR Training Team, commented that:\n\n“We are encouraged by the report’s key finding that our partner countries are demonstrating more successful prosecutions and recovery of assets as a result of our training. That means real progress in sanctioning and deterring serious financial crimes, including corruption, and strengthening the rule of law.\n\nAs well as being a testament to the effectiveness of our methodology developed over the years by Tom Lasich, Phyllis Atkinson and others, it also reinforces the role of training in ICAR’s overall approach to building capacity for financial investigations and asset recovery. Where possible, we combine intensive skills-focused training with hands-on mentoring by expert advisors on real cases. That combination is what really leads to long-term and meaningful progress.”\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   See [ICAR’s training programmes](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) and download brochures in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.\n*   Looking for individual, self-paced learning? Check out our free eLearning courses on [Basel LEARN](https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002F).\n*   Coming soon! Look out for our upcoming [continuing education](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fcontinuing-education-professionals-help-us-meet-your-needs) programmes with the University of Basel, including a specialised postgraduate programme on countering financial crimes and recovering assets.","2025-01-20","its-official-our-training-drives-meaningful-change-2744","It’s official: our training drives meaningful change","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Ff41b9f2b-77e7-41b4-bf03-a3c54e21b28b?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[],[83],[54],[],2744,[109],[54],[],[],[66],[],"2025-01-20T11:01:48.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:34.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fits-official-our-training-drives-meaningful-change-2744",{"id":218,"body":219,"status":6,"type":9,"date":220,"slug":221,"title":222,"image":223,"countries":224,"topic":226,"activity":227,"tags":228,"nid":233,"topics":234,"activities":235,"authors":236,"images":237,"websites":238,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":18,"translations":239,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":240,"user_updated":117,"date_updated":241,"content":242,"link":243},10467,"Journalist Bertram Hill of the BBC Africa Eye Investigative Team joined media consultant Ladan Cher in March 2020 to lead an intensive open-source intelligence workshop for 13 of Malawi’s leading investigative journalists.\n\nDuring the four-day workshop, the participants explored the many possibilities of open-source intelligence gathering, including:\n\n*   Archiving and advanced search techniques\n*   Online monitoring\n*   Digital security\n*   Geolocation and mapping resources\n*   Advanced people search\n\nThe workshop was part of the Basel Institute’s Continuing Journalism Education (CJE) initiative in Malawi. Supported by the Tackling Serious and Organised Corruption programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the CJE aims to help Malawi’s media practitioners develop and publish stories on corruption and anti-corruption activities.\n\nThe goals: to amplify public messages on corruption, help the media to present a clear and candid account of corrupt activities, and drive positive change.\n\nThe initiative, led by two journalist mentors, targets a small cadre of experienced investigative journalists in Malawi, as well as media houses and journalist support organisations.\n\nHighlights in the past year include conducting 10 story labs in Lilongwe and Blantyre, where the cohort of journalists pitch and develop their stories; and three topical workshops including the above BBC-led workshop, a Fact-Checking Workshop led by Africa Check and a Story Pitch and Build Workshop led by the J-School at Wits University in Johannesburg.\n\nA journalist was set to undertake a three-month fellowship with the _Mail and Guardian_ in South Africa, although this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nForty stories have been published by CJE journalists over the past year, including the stories that broke the judicial bribery scandal, on a ministry involved in a land-swap scandal, and the story of police uniforms and boots being sold on the open market.\n\nThe CJE programme has seen interest and support from media houses, newsrooms and journalist support organisations all over the world, including the [Media Institute of Southern Africa](https:\u002F\u002Fmisa.org\u002F) in Lilongwe, the Raphael Tenthani Centre for Media Excellence at the [Polytechnic College of the University of Malawi](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.poly.ac.mw\u002F) in Blantyre, the [AmaBhungane](https:\u002F\u002Famabhungane.org\u002F) Centre for Investigative Journalism, the _Mail & Guardian_ of South Africa, [Wits Journalism](http:\u002F\u002Fwits.journalism.co.za\u002F) of Witwatersrand University, The _Telegraph_ in the UK, the _Washington Post_, and Malawian newspapers The _Times, Nyasa Times_ and The _Nation_.","2020-04-08","equipping-malawis-investigative-journalists-to-report-on-corruption-and-anti-corruption-efforts-1558","Equipping Malawi’s investigative journalists to report on corruption and anti-corruption efforts","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F5ee0a5d0-c0e7-4b89-90a4-3f28eaca41b1?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[225],7422,[83],[54],[229],{"tags_id":230},{"id":231,"name":232},1375,"Civil society",1558,[109],[54],[],[],[66],[],"2024-08-13T22:01:58.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:31.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fequipping-malawis-investigative-journalists-to-report-on-corruption-and-anti-corruption-efforts-1558",{"id":245,"body":246,"status":6,"type":76,"date":247,"slug":248,"title":249,"image":250,"countries":251,"topic":256,"activity":259,"tags":260,"nid":261,"topics":262,"activities":263,"authors":264,"images":266,"websites":267,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":18,"translations":268,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":269,"user_updated":144,"date_updated":145,"content":270,"link":271},10411,"_As we expand our efforts to support Collective Action against corruption in Latin America, Private Sector Specialist Andrea Prieto takes stock of existing initiatives in the region. She and representatives from some of the initiatives discussed the Collective Action approach to fighting corruption in Lima, Peru at the_ [_Eighth Integrity Week_](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.allianceforintegrity.org\u002Fes\u002Feventos-y-capacitaciones\u002Feventos\u002Fdetails.php?id=220.) _organised by Alliance for Integrity._\n\nTambién disponible [en español](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fla-lucha-contra-la-corrupcion-en-america-latina-puede-la-accion-colectiva-ayudar-cerrar-las).\n\n### Changing the status quo\n\nCovid-19, inflation and social unrest have sent Latin America into economic stagnation. Corruption exacerbates the region’s economic woes. It is estimated to cost the region’s economies a staggering [USD 220 billion annually](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.caf.com\u002Fes\u002Factualidad\u002Fnoticias\u002F2021\u002F06\u002Flo-riesgos-de-corrupcion-en-pandemia\u002F) and is responsible for about 50% of the total effect of the economic slowdown.\n\nNobody but the corrupt benefits from corruption. It [inhibits](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.oecd-ilibrary.org\u002Fdocserver\u002Fd1e523ef-en.pdf?expires=1696506017&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=6633E69A7C9D9A68778F28795260077B) economic development, discourages investment, hinders innovation, distorts markets and increases the cost of doing business.\n\nBut there is good news. There is a growing understanding that action on corruption is a collective responsibility that requires the cooperation of the public, private and also civil society sectors. This shift has led to:\n\n*   New regulations for the private sector;\n*   a greater emphasis on corporate accountability;\n*   demand for corruption prevention programmes and strategies at the corporate level.\n\nIn parallel, businesses in Latin America are increasingly developing sustainable business strategies. These look beyond short-term profits towards sustainable long-term growth that not only benefits the company, but [strengthens economic stability and competitive markets](https:\u002F\u002Fanticorrupcion.nexos.com.mx\u002Fprevenir-la-corrupcion-es-negocio\u002F). \n\nAs a result, the private sector in Latin America has become more engaged in the fight against corruption.\n\n### Building trust through Collective Action\n\nA lack of trust between private-sector actors and other stakeholders is a critical hurdle to advancing the anti-corruption agenda. [Collective Action](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fabout) offers a tried-and-tested methodology to build trust and develop collaborative approaches across stakeholder divides. These collaborative approaches support the design and implementation of corruption prevention measures and initiatives that are effective even in challenging contexts.\n\nThe [B20 Collective Action Hub](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002F) by the Basel Institute on Governance has mapped more than 60 Collective Action initiatives operating across a range of sectors in 12 countries in Central and South America. These initiatives range from joint declarations to anti-corruption certification schemes. We also see tools to safeguard public procurement, like [Integrity Pacts](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Fintegrity-pacts) and [High Level Reporting Mechanisms](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Fhlrm).\n\nThe following initiatives give a taster of different types of initiatives and their impact:\n\n### Collective Action leading to regulatory reform\n\nOne successful example of how Collective Action can lead to legal or regulatory reform is the [Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F1413). The MACN is a global business-led network that aims for a maritime industry free of corruption.\n\nIn Argentina in 2014, the MACN detected, through its anonymous [incident reporting system](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fnews\u002Fa-data-driven-strategy-for-anti-corruption-collective-action-lessons-from-nigeria-2402), reports of irregular demands for money for routine inspections in bulk carriers in Argentina. The bribery was estimated at approximately USD 30 million a year. It affected not only those forced to pay bribes to get the paperwork they needed, but also the overall international trade of Argentine agricultural products. The higher costs and the increased legal risk had begun to discourage foreign companies from continuing to trade in the country. \n\nThe MACN worked with trade unions and chambers of commerce to identify corruption risks, gather relevant actors, build trust and find ways to solve the issue.\n\nThanks to this action and by collective agreement, the _Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria_ (National Agri-food Health and Quality Service) [reformed](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fnews\u002Fmaritime-anti-corruption-network-in-argentina-achieves-milestone-in-corruption-prevention-for-ship-clearance-106) the regulatory framework in November 2017. This resulted in the adoption of a modern control system that digitises the management of inspections and establishes a system of cross controls.\n\nThe Collective Action process was expanded to include the training and monitoring of all public and private actors in the new system. It is estimated that bribes decreased by [more than 90 percent,](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.clarin.com\u002Frural\u002Freconocen-senasa-reducir-90-casos-corrupcion-puertos_0_YJwCNaisM.html) significantly reducing the cost per ship of entering Argentina harbours.\n\n### Integrity as aspirational: Collective Action to recognise companies\n\nCompanies increasingly see the value of publicly demonstrating their integrity credentials. In 2010, the Instituto Ethos of Brazil (a civil society organisation) collaborated with the country’s Comptroller General to develop the _Pro-Ética_ (“Pro-Ethics) seal [Pro-Ethics Seal](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2195). This is a system to publicly recognise companies that implement effective integrity and compliance programmes and that are committed to the integrity agenda.\n\nThe concept was later adopted by the Brazilian Ministry of Infrastructure. It gained even more prominence in the wake of the _Lava Jato_ scandal, which forced both the government and businesses to recognise the importance of corruption prevention measures.\n\nThe mechanism [continues to have impact](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.br\u002Fcgu\u002Fpt-br\u002Fassuntos\u002Fintegridade-privada\u002Favaliacao-e-promocao-da-integridade-privada\u002Fempresa-pro-etica). In 2020–21, more than 327 companies applied for recognition. Of these, 195 met the eligibility requirements and were evaluated, and 67 were approved. In 2022-23, 84 companies gained approval.\n\nThe tool has been recognised as a good example of Collective Action since the deliberations on the approval of the companies are carried out by the Pro-Ethics Committee. This is made up of institutions from the public and private sectors, with national representation and committed to the promotion of corporate integrity.\n\nThe success led Paraguay to implement a similar \"Integrity Seal\" programme [Integrity Seal](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2196), demonstrating the potential for replication of such initiatives. In 2023, Paraguay’s government publicly recognised 30 companies, of which 17 were large companies and 13 small\u002Fmid-sized enterprises (SMEs).\n\n### Collective Action for cross-sector learning\n\nCollective Action can bring people together to learn how to improve business integrity. One example is the [_Red para la Formación Etica y Ciudadana_](https:\u002F\u002Fredetica.org\u002F) (Network for Ethics and Citizenship Education) in Colombia, which provides spaces for reflection and training on ethics in business environments.\n\nThrough its flagship programme “The Integrity Chair” [Colombian Chair on Citizenship, Integrity and Anti-Corruption](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2194), implemented with the National University of Colombia, the network has brought together more than 15 partner organisations from the public sector, civil society, academia, business and professional sectors in ethics trainings. Since its creation, the Chair has trained more than 5,500 students and more than 1,600 citizens. The network also runs mentoring programmes for the design and implementation of anti-corruption Collective Action initiatives.\n\n### Collective Action to level the playing field\n\nCollective Action initiatives can also help to level the playing field for businesses, including SMEs. One example is the [_Empresarios por la Integridad_](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.empresariosporlaintegridad.pe\u002F) (Entrepreneurs for Integrity) initiative in Peru.\n\nThis business-led network provides anti-bribery certification as well as integrity training for SMEs. At the time of writing, 49 companies had achieved certification and a project to promote integrity among SMEs in the construction sector is [underway in several regions of the country](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.empresariosporlaintegridad.pe\u002F). \n\n### Fertile ground for new initiatives – we are here to help\n\nThe growth and impact of Collective Action initiatives in Latin America show that the region is fertile ground for multi-stakeholder collaboration against corruption.\n\nIn the context of growing awareness of corruption, and where corruption scandals are frequent, Collective Action has an opportunity to gain greater legitimacy as an effective way to promote integrity. And importantly for Latin America’s current economic situation – to build a more competitive and transparent playing field for doing business.\n\nAs shown in the examples above, Collective Action initiatives can influence the way business is done, either at the sectoral level, extending their impact to new actors such as SMEs in the Peruvian case, or broadening initiatives to expand at the regional level as in the case of the \"Sello de Integridad\" (Integrity Seal).\n\nAt the Basel Institute, we are actively supporting this approach and the next generation of Collective Action initiatives. Our [Collective Action mentoring programme](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fget-involved\u002Fmentoring-programme) provides tailored and context-specific support to organisations that promote business-led and multi-stakeholder initiatives for anti-corruption.\n\nWe also contribute to ongoing efforts to build a regional community of practice that allows the exchange of good practices and the potential for cross-regional collaboration.","2023-12-18","fighting-corruption-in-latin-america-can-collective-action-help-close-the-gaps-2557","Fighting corruption in Latin America: Can Collective Action help close the gaps? ","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fc98c2824-5683-440d-9db5-bbdacc22921e?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[252,253,254,255],7140,7141,7142,7143,[257,258],"Collective Action","Private Sector",[10],[],2557,[257,258],[],[265],1125,[],[66,257],[],"2023-12-18T11:01:36.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Ffighting-corruption-in-latin-america-can-collective-action-help-close-the-gaps-2557",{"id":273,"body":274,"status":6,"type":9,"date":275,"slug":276,"title":277,"image":278,"countries":279,"topic":284,"activity":285,"tags":287,"nid":288,"topics":289,"activities":290,"authors":291,"images":292,"websites":293,"area":18,"programme":18,"language":19,"translations":294,"translation_of":18,"user_created":26,"date_created":295,"user_updated":144,"date_updated":296,"content":297,"link":298},10556,"Congratulations to the winners of the [2025 Anti-Corruption Collective Action Awards](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fget-involved\u002Fawards), presented by the Basel Institute on Governance with the support of the Siemens Integrity Initiative.\n\nThe awards were announced on 4 June 2025 in a video on social media from Elizabeth Andersen, the Basel Institute’s Executive Director.\n\n### Gretta Fenner Outstanding Achievement in Collective Action Award\n\nIn the category of Outstanding Achievement in Collective Action 2025, the award goes to [Saya Perempuan Antikorupsi – SPAK Indonesia (I am a woman against corruption)](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2241).\n\nOrganisations and initiatives awarded in this category have made significant contributions towards fairer market conditions and the prevention of corruption through their engagement in Collective Action.\n\nSPAK Indonesia, launched in 2014, empowers women across Indonesia to become agents of change against corruption. Through engaging educational tools and community involvement, SPAK promotes anti-corruption values in various settings, including schools and public institutions. They help build anti-corruption ecosystems and advocate against corruption as a root cause of violence against women.\n\n### Collective Action Inspirational Newcomer Award\n\nIn the category of Inspirational Newcomer, the award goes to the [Code of Ethics for Businesses in Kenya](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F1478), developed by UN Global Compact Network Kenya in collaboration with the Kenya Association of Manufacturers and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance.\n\nOrganisations and initiatives awarded in this category have been active in the field of Collective Action for less than two years.\n\nLaunched recently, the Code of Ethics for Businesses in Kenya is a private-sector-led initiative rooted in the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles. It unites over 800 companies in a collective stand against corruption, guiding responsible business conduct across all stakeholder groups. With digital tools like a transparency microsite enabling open reporting and compliance, the Code is transforming corporate culture across Kenya.\n\n### Finalists from around the world\n\nWe extend our heartfelt congratulations to the winners and all our shortlisted initiatives, who continue to be shining examples of Collective Action in the anti-corruption field.\n\nIn the category of Outstanding Achievement, the finalists were:\n\n*   [Indonesia Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption (KAKI)](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2034)\n*   [Virtuous Alliances in Argentina’s Energy Sector](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F1581)\n\nIn the category of Inspirational Newcomer, the finalists were:\n\n*   [Anticorruption Business Club (ABC)](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2207) from Madagascar\n*   [Collective Action Initiative on Integrity and Anti-Corruption in the Private Sector in Mexico](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Finitiatives\u002F2234)\n\n### Jury selection and public vote\n\nAn expert jury reviewed all nominated initiatives and shortlisted the finalists before opening up to a public vote. The jury consisted of leading figures in the anti-corruption Collective Action community, including:\n\n*   Chantal Castro, Anticorruption Manager, UN Global Compact Brazil Network\n*   Lisa Miller, Integrity Compliance Officer, World Bank Group\n*   Pusetso Morapedi, Africa Coordinator, Integrity Initiatives International\n*   François Valérian, Chair, Transparency International\n\nThe final decision reflected a combination of jury scores and the public vote, ensuring that the selected initiatives demonstrated both expert merit and community resonance.\n\n\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fvideos.baselgovernance.org\u002Fvideos\u002Fembed\u002Fad16e0eb-d841-425b-b473-e505d0000368?title=0&warningTitle=0&peertubeLink=0&p2p=0\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\n### Learn more and see previous awards\n\nFor those interested in the selection process, the public vote, and the general awards methodology, as well as previous award winners, please find our awards methodology here: [award methodology](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2025-01\u002F2025%20Award%20Methodology.pdf).\n\nWe look forward to continuing to showcase and support outstanding efforts in Collective Action against corruption.","2025-06-04","announcing-the-winners-of-the-2025-anti-corruption-collective-action-awards-2815","Announcing the winners of the 2025 Anti-Corruption Collective Action Awards","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F48c27461-1bee-4cb7-bece-4bcbebb8929a?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[280,281,282,283],7776,7777,7778,7779,[257,258],[286],"Anti-corruption interventions",[],2815,[257,258],[286],[],[],[66,257],[],"2025-06-04T16:01:36.000Z","2025-08-31T23:10:48.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fannouncing-the-winners-of-the-2025-anti-corruption-collective-action-awards-2815",{"left":300,"top":300,"width":301,"height":301,"rotate":300,"vFlip":302,"hFlip":302,"body":303},0,20,false,"\u003Cpath fill=\"currentColor\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M17 10a.75.75 0 0 1-.75.75H5.612l4.158 3.96a.75.75 0 1 1-1.04 1.08l-5.5-5.25a.75.75 0 0 1 0-1.08l5.5-5.25a.75.75 0 1 1 1.04 1.08L5.612 9.25H16.25A.75.75 0 0 1 17 10\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\u002F>",1780676521308]