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Collective Action, she argues, can be an approach to overcoming trust deficits between relevant stakeholders. Celia Lourens supports the organisation of our 6th International Collective Action Conference.\n\nAt its core, anti-corruption Collective Action is about tackling corruption challenges together, rather than alone. Collective Action is primarily driven by businesses, often in collaboration with government representatives and civil society, to address a shared challenge and attain a common objective.\n\nBuilding trust is one critical element of Collective Action efforts, as it requires a genuine and sustained willingness from all involved stakeholders to collaborate.\n\n### Trust across sectors: the foundation of effective markets\n\nMarkets depend on trust – not only between businesses and their customers or employees and their organisational leadership, but between the institutions that shape the business environment:\n\n*   Business relies on regulatory bodies to create fair and predictable markets.\n*   Governments depend on businesses to act with integrity, beyond merely meeting compliance requirements.\n*   Civil society holds both public and private sectors accountable whilst advancing transparency and public confidence.\n\nWhere these relationships are founded in trust, business ecosystems function more effectively and markets remain stable.\n\nYet, cross-sector trust is increasingly under strain. Geopolitical volatility, tightening regulations and elevated complexity within supply chains are creating distance between the very actors who need to collaborate.\n\n### The cost of low-trust systems\n\nWhen trust between the private sector, government and civil society breaks down, the consequences are immediate: slower transactions, higher compliance costs and due diligence burdens, duplicated oversight and heightened reputational risk. Oversight becomes adversarial, compliance turns reactive and businesses invest more time managing risks than creating value.\n\nIn an era of heightened competitiveness, trust across sectors becomes the most valuable currency. Where it is systemically weak, a vicious cycle takes hold: low trust demands heightened scrutiny and more controls, which in turn erode trust further. Government enforcement of standards becomes inconsistent and civil society turns sceptical rather than being a partner.\n\nBreaking this cycle requires a different approach – one built on shared commitment, sustained engagement and coordinated action. This is where Collective Action comes into play.\n\n### Collective Action as a trust-building mechanism\n\nIn practice, Collective Action enables organisations to jointly raise integrity standards across industries, develop sector-specific norms and tackle systemic risks such as bribery and unethical conduct. Its ultimate objective – and the key incentive to participate in Collective Action initiatives – is to create fairer, more transparent markets where companies can compete on equal terms.\n\nBut beyond its role as an anti-corruption approach, Collective Action also serves as a powerful trust-building mechanism. In a low-trust environment, individual organisations acting ethically on their own can find themselves at a disadvantage. Collective Action changes this dynamic. Shared commitments level the playing field, the involvement of multiple stakeholders builds credibility and joint accountability mechanisms increase transparency.\n\nOver time, this collaborative approach fosters trust where it is hardest to achieve – between actors with different roles, responsibilities and pressures. The result is a shift in systemic behaviour that lowers the cost of doing business and drives a more predictable business environment.\n\n### From compliance to competitive advantage\n\nToo often, doing business with integrity is treated as a compliance obligation rather than a source of competitive advantage. Yet, in high-trust business environments, stronger partnerships and faster decision-making enable organisations to withstand disruptions. Organisations invested in building trust across their business ecosystem are better positioned to navigate complexity and sustain long-term value.\n\nCollective Action supports this shift by helping to shape markets that reward integrity, moving beyond a risk mitigation exercise.\n\n### Building trust in practice\n\nThis is exactly the focus of the [6th International Collective Action Conference](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fget-involved\u002Fevents\u002Ficac-2026), taking place on 9–10 June 2026 in Basel, Switzerland.\n\nBringing together leaders from business, government and civil society, the conference is designed as a space not just for dialogue, but for practical exchange. It showcases how Collective Action initiatives are being implemented across sectors, what makes them effective and how they can be adapted to different contexts.\n\nThe conference reflects a core conviction: trust across sectors does not happen by default but must be actively built. Organisations that commit to building trust together, as a collective, will not only manage risks more effectively, but help shape a new competitive advantage rooted in integrity.\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   [6th International Collective Action Conference 2026](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fget-involved\u002Fevents\u002Ficac-2026)\n*   [B20 Collective Action Hub](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com)\n*   Working Paper 56: [Anti-corruption Collective Action: A typology for a new era](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Fpublications\u002F2397)\n*   Book: [Collective Action in practice: a game-changer for business integrity](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002Fexplore\u002Fpublications\u002F2407)","2026-04-20",[25,107],"building-trust-how-collective-action-strengthens-business-ecosystems-2959",[570],"Insights",2959,[25,107],[570],{"id":575,"storage":36,"filename_disk":576,"filename_download":577,"title":578,"type":579,"created_on":580,"modified_on":562,"charset":11,"filesize":581,"width":582,"height":583,"duration":11,"embed":11,"description":584,"location":11,"tags":11,"metadata":585,"focal_point_x":11,"focal_point_y":11,"tus_id":11,"tus_data":11,"uploaded_on":586},"c470512d-6eaf-404e-86ec-545ebd052655","c470512d-6eaf-404e-86ec-545ebd052655.webp","Building-trust_5th-InternationalCollectiveActionConference.webp","Building Trust 5th International Collective Action Conference","image\u002Fwebp","2026-06-05T10:40:05.000Z",498132,2400,1600,"Building trust, one conversation at a time – here at the 5th International Collective Action Conference in 2024. 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Many have introduced corporate criminal liability for corruption. Environmental and social corporate responsibility, however, has largely been addressed through soft-law instruments.\n\nNow the regulatory landscape for sustainability topics is shifting away from soft law towards mandatory regulations. Companies need to establish a governance structure that adequately addresses anti-corruption compliance and broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics, including human rights issues.\n\nThat is a challenge for most businesses. A siloed approach still prevails, with limited exchanges of information between a company’s anti-corruption compliance function and its ESG function.\n\nThere are synergies between the environmental and social agenda and anti-corruption compliance – and breaking down silos is critical. Nonetheless, they remain distinct topics that require specific subject-matter expertise.\n\nIn our ethics and compliance work, we see how companies benefit from internal coordination on ESG and anti-corruption compliance within their broader risk management frameworks. The key is to leverage complementary aspects while treating the topics discretely when necessary.\n\nA similar approach is helpful to leverage synergies between [anti-corruption compliance and business and human rights](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fconnecting-anti-corruption-and-human-rights-agendas-challenges-and-opportunities-collective).\n\n### Three ways to better meet stakeholder expectations on corporate disclosure\n\nOne thing that companies are grappling with is new disclosure requirements. The European Union’s [Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Funpicking-eu-directives-corporate-responsibility-and-sustainability), for example, requires companies to report according to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which also cover topics relating to corruption and bribery.\n\nDisclosure of anti-corruption efforts is not a new issue. Increased transparency through disclosure can be useful to build trust with external stakeholders, mitigate reputational risks and identify best practices.\n\nThree innovative approaches to corporate disclosure for anti-corruption compliance can help provide inspiration for wider ESG-related reporting: effectiveness indicators, corporate culture and engagement in anti-corruption Collective Action.\n\n#### 1\\. Reporting on effectiveness\n\nThe Basel Institute has facilitated the co-development of a set of indicators that companies may wish to consider when reporting on the effectiveness of their anti-corruption efforts to external stakeholders. While these indicators were developed with health care companies, they are not sector specific and could prove valuable for companies working in other fields.\n\nThe [guidance note](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fmeasuring-effectiveness-anti-corruption-programmes-indicators-company-reporting) was developed in collaboration with Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) and responds to [NBIM’s publication of expectations](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nbim.no\u002Fcontentassets\u002F9af1e01021a642b3aa162d140dd0069a\u002Fanti-corruption.pdf) of companies on anti-corruption. These expectations emphasise among others that companies should report on their anti-corruption programme, including disclosing how they measure its effectiveness. The expectations are based on internationally recognised principles such as the UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.\n\nThe effectiveness indicators are grouped into five themes based on their relevance to the prevention of corruption:\n\n*   Culture\n*   Risk management\n*   Third parties\n*   Compliance function\n*   Oversight\n\nThe indicators use a combination of qualitative and quantitative metrics. Some are goal oriented and need descriptive answers. For others, a yes or no suffices.\n\n#### 2\\. Measuring corporate culture\n\nIt is worth taking a closer look at the first theme of the Basel Institute\u002FNBIM effectiveness indicators – culture. An organisation’s culture impacts both employees’ behaviour and the effective implementation of anti-corruption and other ESG programmes. A real commitment to corruption prevention and sustainability requires a strong corporate culture focusing on integrity.\n\nThe focus on disclosures relating to corporate culture has attracted attention in recent months. The U.S. Department of Justice’s latest guidance document on the [_Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs_](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.justice.gov\u002Fcriminal\u002Fcriminal-fraud\u002Fpage\u002Ffile\u002F937501\u002Fdl) (updated in September 2024), for example, highlights the importance of fostering an organisational culture “that encourages ethical conduct and a commitment to compliance with the law” – beyond having check-box compliance structure and policies in place.\n\nFive of the indicators developed by the Basel Institute and NBIM relate to culture (paraphrased here). They can be a helpful resource for companies to define how they measure corporate culture and how it evolves over time:\n\n*   A baseline to identify perceptions of the culture of integrity and a methodology to measure changes in the culture over time are established.\n*   Frequency of references to ethics and compliance by C-level executives and managers.\n*   Performance management framework incorporates how ethics and integrity objectives are achieved.\n*   Ethics and integrity are integral components in leadership decisions.\n*   The company actively engages in anti-corruption Collective Action.\n\nMeasuring an organisation’s corporate culture remains challenging. But the list of indicators can provide a starting point for companies wishing to not only shape a culture of integrity in their organisation but to report externally on the success of their efforts.\n\n#### 3\\. Multi-stakeholder engagement through Collective Action\n\nNow it’s time to zoom in on the fifth culture-related indicator above: anti-corruption [Collective Action](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002F).\n\nActive and sustained engagement with peers and stakeholders from civil society and in some cases government through Collective Action can [indicate a company’s commitment](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fnew-journal-article-anti-corruption-compliance-non-financial-reporting-and-collective-action) to integrity and a continuously improving ethical culture.\n\nCollective Action has gained significant momentum in recent years. The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in its revised Anti-Bribery Recommendation has [formally endorsed the use of Collective Action](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Foecd-recommends-anti-corruption-collective-action-its-revised-anti-bribery-recommendation) to address corruption. The concept is also supported by development banks, including the [World Bank](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-should-development-banks-engage-anti-corruption-and-collective-action-initiatives#:~:text=The%20World%20Bank%20Group%20has,financed%20projects%2C%20but%20more%20generally). Most recently, the B20 Integrity and Compliance Task Force under the Brazilian presidency of the G20 has included fostering Collective Action initiatives as one of three [policy recommendations](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fb20-brazil-rings-new-era-collective-action). Looking at corporate disclosure, the Global Reporting Initiative’s standards for sustainability impacts ([GRI Standards](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.globalreporting.org\u002Fstandards\u002F)) also integrate Collective Action in their recommended anti-corruption disclosure.\n\nCompanies across different industries and sectors continue to face challenges when it comes to addressing the increasing jigsaw of varying international and national standards. Collaborative approaches such as Collective Action are an impactful way for companies to address these challenges jointly and also meet expectations of their stakeholders, be it on corruption prevention, human rights or other ESG topics.\n\n### Read more\n\n*   For details on all themes and effectiveness indicators for company reporting, see the Basel Institute\u002FNBIM [guidance note](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fmeasuring-effectiveness-anti-corruption-programmes-indicators-company-reporting).\n*   For more information about Collective Action, visit our [B20 Collective Action Hub](https:\u002F\u002Fcollective-action.com\u002F).","2024-12-16",[25],"corporate-disclosure-on-anti-corruption-and-esg-three-innovative-approaches-2735",[570],2735,[25],[570],[649,25],"Main page",{"id":651,"storage":36,"filename_disk":652,"filename_download":653,"title":639,"type":579,"created_on":654,"modified_on":654,"charset":11,"filesize":655,"width":656,"height":657,"duration":11,"embed":11,"description":11,"location":11,"tags":11,"metadata":658,"focal_point_x":11,"focal_point_y":11,"tus_id":11,"tus_data":11,"uploaded_on":654},"f0488555-7a90-437c-ac6f-edbdd3f0f775","f0488555-7a90-437c-ac6f-edbdd3f0f775.webp","tmp.webp","2025-05-12T21:09:58.000Z",150312,1400,926,{},[],[661,680,694,710],{"id":662,"news_id":663,"tags_id":679},4850,{"id":636,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":637,"user_updated":374,"date_updated":638,"title":639,"type":564,"body":640,"image":651,"date":641,"topic":664,"slug":643,"activity":665,"nid":645,"topics":666,"activities":667,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":668,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":669,"tags":670,"authors":674,"images":676,"translations":677,"content":678},[25],[570],[25],[570],[649,25],[],[662,671,672,673],5679,5680,5681,[675],1096,[],[],[],{"id":65,"name":25},{"id":671,"news_id":681,"tags_id":693},{"id":636,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":637,"user_updated":374,"date_updated":638,"title":639,"type":564,"body":640,"image":651,"date":641,"topic":682,"slug":643,"activity":683,"nid":645,"topics":684,"activities":685,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":686,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":687,"tags":688,"authors":689,"images":690,"translations":691,"content":692},[25],[570],[25],[570],[649,25],[],[662,671,672,673],[675],[],[],[],{"id":321,"name":322},{"id":672,"news_id":695,"tags_id":707},{"id":636,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":637,"user_updated":374,"date_updated":638,"title":639,"type":564,"body":640,"image":651,"date":641,"topic":696,"slug":643,"activity":697,"nid":645,"topics":698,"activities":699,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":700,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":701,"tags":702,"authors":703,"images":704,"translations":705,"content":706},[25],[570],[25],[570],[649,25],[],[662,671,672,673],[675],[],[],[],{"id":708,"name":709},1303,"Environment",{"id":673,"news_id":711,"tags_id":723},{"id":636,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":637,"user_updated":374,"date_updated":638,"title":639,"type":564,"body":640,"image":651,"date":641,"topic":712,"slug":643,"activity":713,"nid":645,"topics":714,"activities":715,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":716,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":717,"tags":718,"authors":719,"images":720,"translations":721,"content":722},[25],[570],[25],[570],[649,25],[],[662,671,672,673],[675],[],[],[],{"id":4,"name":5},[725],{"id":675,"news_id":726,"authors_id":738},{"id":636,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":637,"user_updated":374,"date_updated":638,"title":639,"type":564,"body":640,"image":651,"date":641,"topic":727,"slug":643,"activity":728,"nid":645,"topics":729,"activities":730,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":731,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":732,"tags":733,"authors":734,"images":735,"translations":736,"content":737},[25],[570],[25],[570],[649,25],[],[662,671,672,673],[675],[],[],[],{"id":228,"name":229,"position":11,"image":230},[],[],[],{"id":743,"status":10,"date_created":744,"date_updated":745,"title":746,"type":564,"body":747,"date":748,"topic":749,"slug":751,"activity":752,"nid":753,"topics":754,"activities":755,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":756,"language":11,"image":757,"translation_of":11,"countries":763,"tags":764,"authors":780,"images":781,"translations":782,"content":783},10352,"2023-03-27T08:29:43.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:25.000Z","Business integrity programmes: Multilateral Development Banks harmonise their guidance ","_Business entities wishing to implement projects funded by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs, also referred to as International Financial Institutions) will be interested to know that six major MDBs have agreed and published new General Principles for Business Integrity Programmes. Such programmes play an important part in the MDBs’ efforts to fight fraud and corruption in the projects they finance or otherwise support._\n\n_These General Principles provide non-exhaustive, non-binding guidance for business entities that implement such projects. Notably, they recommend engagement in Collective Action to encourage other business entities to implement integrity programmes as well._\n\n_In this guest blog, Lisa Miller of the World Bank Group and Duncan Smith of the European Investment Bank explain, especially for businesses seeking to implement MDB-financed projects, what the General Principles are and the role business integrity programmes play in MDBs’ anti-fraud and anti-corruption efforts._\n\nSix major Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs)—the African Development Bank ([AfDB](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.afdb.org\u002Fen)), Asian Development Bank ([ADB](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.adb.org\u002F)), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ([EBRD](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ebrd.com\u002Fhome)), European Investment Bank ([EIB](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.eib.org\u002F)), Inter-American Development Bank ([IDB](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.iadb.org\u002Fen)), and [World Bank Group](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldbank.org\u002Fen\u002Fhome)—have agreed and published new General Principles for Business Integrity Programmes.\n\nThe MDBs provide essential support for development projects in countries seeking assistance, in particular financial support. They are public, not commercial, multilateral lending institutions. The MDBs, among other things, lend money to their member countries (public borrowers) to carry out key development projects, which the borrowers implement.\n\nThe projects often involve the purchase of goods, works, and services through public procurement systems in which private entities seek to win contracts under the MDB-supported projects.\n\nUnfortunately, some entities seek to improperly influence (e.g., via bribes) or otherwise distort the process, such as through the submission of fraudulent information in a bid for such contracts. The potential for misconduct also exists throughout the project lifecycle.\n\n### MDB expectations and control mechanisms\n\nIt is essential that the funds provided by the MDBs are used for their intended purposes and are not misused, whether by borrowers or by the entities that compete for or win contracts under MDB-supported projects. The MDBs therefore expect entities participating in such projects to maintain the highest standard of integrity.\n\nThe MDBs’ expectations in that regard are set out in financing agreements with borrowers and contracts entered into between borrower agencies and the contractors and consultants that work under such projects. The MDBs also have in place mechanisms to monitor related procurement processes and contract performance.\n\nIn addition, each MDB has an integrity function, to which any suspected misuse of funds or other prohibited practices under such projects should be reported. In this respect, the MDBs have adopted harmonised definitions of fraud, corruption, collusion and coercion (commonly collectively referred to simply as “fraud and corruption”) which are set out in the [International Financial Institutions Uniform Framework for Preventing and Combating Fraud and Corruption](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.eib.org\u002Fen\u002Fabout\u002Fdocuments\u002Fifi-anti-corruption-task-force-uniform-framework.htm) (the Framework).\n\nIf an allegation has been investigated by an MDB (or MDBs if the project is co-financed) and a finding of misconduct has been substantiated, each MDB has an internal administrative process to sanction those who have engaged in such misconduct (e.g., debarment or exclusion). \\[1\\]\n\nMoreover, some MDBs have signed an Agreement for Mutual Enforcement of Debarment Decisions among Multilateral Development Banks, commonly referred to as the [Cross-Debarment Agreement](http:\u002F\u002Fcrossdebarment.org\u002Foai001p.nsf\u002FHome.xsp?SessionID=CWO0W588ZO), under which an entity that is debarred by one MDB for an initial period exceeding one year also generally is debarred by the other MDBs. \\[2\\]\n\n### The role of business integrity programmes\n\nA business integrity programme should clearly articulate an entity’s values, as well as the policies and procedures used to prevent, detect, investigate and remediate misconduct in the entity’s operations.\n\nAs set out by the MDBs in their respective policies and procedures, an entity’s business integrity programme is often relevant in connection with the MDBs’ frameworks for investigating and sanctioning fraud and corruption. For example, the business integrity programme of a company that is accused of misconduct may be considered in an MDBs’ investigation and sanctions proceedings, such as in determining an appropriate sanction.\n\nIn addition, when an entity is sanctioned by an MDB, the MDB may impose conditions for the entity’s reinstatement or release from sanction that require the entity to develop and implement a business integrity programme. In such cases, whether the entity has put in place and is effectively implementing a programme designed to prevent, deter, detect, investigate and remediate prohibited practices will be considered by the MDB in its assessment of the entity’s application for reinstatement or release from sanction.\n\nAs effective business integrity programmes become more common among the entities that participate in MDB-supported projects, it is hoped that the risk of misconduct in such projects will decline. As Principle 29 of the document makes clear, Collective Action can help to encourage the widespread adoption of effective business integrity programmes.\n\nBusiness integrity programmes therefore play an important part in MDBs’ efforts to fight fraud and corruption in the projects they support.\n\nThe General Principles are intended as non-exhaustive, non-binding guidance relating to business integrity programmes in the context of MDB-financed projects. Companies also may wish to refer to the General Principles as guidance for their programmes in other contexts. Indeed, it is a good business practice to have such a programme in place, and to implement the programme consistently and effectively, as a standard approach to doing business.\n\nIn addition, the General Principles are intended to be adaptable to entities of all types and sizes that are operating in various environments. The policies and procedures comprising a business integrity programme should be based on a comprehensive risk assessment of the entity’s operations and should be tailored accordingly. The programme should address and include provisions intended to minimise the occurrence of the identified risks, and it should be structured such that it will accommodate changing circumstances and evolve over time.\n\n### Core elements of a programme\n\nWhile a programme should reflect an entity’s own circumstances and integrity risk profile, key features, such as those set out in the General Principles, should be incorporated into the programme as appropriate.\n\nThe General Principles cover the following core principles, among others:\n\n*   Risk Assessment\n*   Prohibited Misconduct\n*   Management Roles\n*   Integrity Function\n*   Internal Controls\n*   Reporting, Investigation, and Remediation\n*   Training, Communication, Advice, and Accessibility\n*   Business Partners\n*   Collective Action\u002FExternal Engagement\n\n### In conclusion\n\nThe General Principles set out important guidance relating to the MDBs’ efforts to ensure the funds they lend to states are used only for development purposes. The General Principles are intended as guidance relating to the prevention of fraud and corruption and can be adopted and implemented by entities in all sectors and of all sizes.\n\nThe General Principles may be found at [Cross Debarment (adb.org)](https:\u002F\u002Flnadbg4.adb.org\u002Foai001p.nsf\u002FContent.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=E89FC5403A8D0B654825896E0017FAD9) including an Appendix that sets out additional guidance relating to the core principles.\n\n### Notes\n\n\\[1\\] MDB investigation teams also may refer suspected criminal conduct to relevant law enforcement agencies that have the full range of criminal investigation tools (e.g., search and arrest warrants).\n\n\\[2\\] For legal reasons, EIB did not sign the Cross Debarment Agreement but recognizes that the debarment should be identified and disclosed under the EIB Covenant of Integrity ([EIB Guide to Procurement](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.eib.org\u002Fen\u002Fpublications\u002Fguide-to-procurement), Annex 3).\n\n### About the authors\n\nLisa Miller is the World Bank Group Integrity Compliance Officer and heads the Integrity Compliance Office in [the World Bank Group's Integrity Vice Presidency](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldbank.org\u002Fen\u002Fabout\u002Funit\u002Fintegrity-vice-presidency\u002F). She previously was a Senior Counsel in the World Bank's Legal Vice Presidency, focusing on sanctions and legal procurement matters. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was in private legal practice in Boston and Washington, DC, where her practice focused on integrity compliance, sanctions, public procurement, and corporate matters. \n\nDuncan Smith will soon retire as Deputy Head of Investigations at EIB. After passing the English Bar, he prosecuted corporate fraud & corruption cases at the UK’s DTI & SFO. He then spent 7 years at World Bank Investigations (as Team Leader, later Policy Adviser); he moved to EIB in 2007 to investigate large cases and address prevention\u002Fdeterrence\u002Foutreach & negotiate settlements. He co-authored the International Financial Institutions Anti-Corruption Uniform Framework Agreement (2006) & MDB harmonization documents (e.g., General Principles on Settlements). He has written many articles on the subject, including for Basel Institute on Governance & FCPA Blog and has authored two books: [Promoting Integrity in the Work of International Organisations: Minimising Fraud and Corruption in Projects](%20Minimising%20Fraud%20and%20Corruption%20in%20Projects) (2021) and [Fraud and Corruption: Cases & Materials](https:\u002F\u002Flink.springer.com\u002Fbook\u002F10.1007\u002F978-3-031-10063-5) (2022).","2023-03-27",[25,750],"Compliance","business-integrity-programmes-multilateral-development-banks-harmonise-their-guidance-2417",[570],2417,[25,114],[570],[649,25],{"id":758,"storage":36,"filename_disk":759,"filename_download":653,"title":746,"type":579,"created_on":744,"modified_on":744,"charset":11,"filesize":760,"width":761,"height":762,"duration":11,"embed":11,"description":11,"location":11,"tags":11,"metadata":11,"focal_point_x":11,"focal_point_y":11,"tus_id":11,"tus_data":11,"uploaded_on":744},"0e0e8557-bb5a-4596-ac88-4a6e910bc584","0e0e8557-bb5a-4596-ac88-4a6e910bc584.webp",32486,800,418,[],[765],{"id":766,"news_id":767,"tags_id":779},4632,{"id":743,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":744,"user_updated":51,"date_updated":745,"title":746,"type":564,"body":747,"image":758,"date":748,"topic":768,"slug":751,"activity":769,"nid":753,"topics":770,"activities":771,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":772,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":773,"tags":774,"authors":775,"images":776,"translations":777,"content":778},[25,750],[570],[25,114],[570],[649,25],[],[766],[],[],[],[],{"id":4,"name":5},[],[],[],[],{"id":785,"status":10,"date_created":786,"date_updated":638,"title":787,"type":564,"body":788,"date":789,"topic":790,"slug":791,"activity":792,"nid":793,"topics":794,"activities":795,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":796,"language":11,"image":797,"translation_of":11,"countries":804,"tags":805,"authors":823,"images":857,"translations":858,"content":859},9521,"2022-05-26T22:51:55.000Z","Is Collective Action against corruption a competition risk for companies?","Our joint chapter in a new book on [_Perspectives on Antitrust Compliance_](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcollective-action-against-corruption-competition-risk-companies-perspectives-antitrust) answers a common question that arises when compliance officers and company lawyers first hear about anti-corruption Collective Action: are there antitrust risks in engaging with other industry players through Collective Action?\n\nThe short answer is no. The longer answer is, as we explain in the chapter, “quite the opposite”.\n\nCorruption distorts fair competition – through bribery, collusion, bid-rigging or other forms of manipulation and foul play. Companies with high ethical standards may struggle to compete in high-risk countries or sectors if others are willing and able to operate in the shadows. In contrast, anti-corruption Collective Action can help to level the playing field between competitors and increase standards of transparency and integrity across an industry or region.\n\n### Neither a cartel nor a class action\n\nOur chapter first covers the scope and purpose of anti-corruption Collective Action. This is important because the term “Collective Action” itself may, ironically, trigger negative associations. One may think of class actions, collective bargaining, or collectivised and planned economies that stifle choice and competition.\n\nRather, the “collective” aspect of Collective Action refers to the common challenge that brings participants together as a group, and the group’s shared approach to tackling it. For example, the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) brings companies from the shipping sector together to address, among other things, the widespread problem of bribe solicitation in ports. This is a problem that negatively impacts all companies, but which none can solve alone.\n\nIn these cases and many more, peer collaboration is important. This is because corruption is a complex global problem that needs diverse and innovative solutions. Collective Action offers a wider range of tools and approaches, including the ability to design new anti-corruption tools that take account of business realities and work in practice.\n\n### Overcoming competition concerns\n\nOur chapter gives practical advice on how to overcome concerns and avoid antitrust risks, including many examples from initiatives around the world. A few simple steps could help companies to reap the benefits of engaging in anti-corruption Collective Action while avoiding risks. Examples include:\n\n*   Members of the Collective Action can be drawn from employees who are sensitive to the risks of antitrust and competition law concerns and who are also familiar with the corruption risks. Such persons could include senior compliance officers, the general counsel or similar officers.\n*   Have one independent external legal advisor who is not retained by an individual company attend the first meeting, to explain the antitrust golden rules.\n*   Following this, a suitably qualified and independent facilitator, such as an anti-corruption expert, should be able to address antitrust risks and manage meetings appropriately.\n*   Develop an antitrust policy that all member companies approve according to their internal procedures. This should include matters that cannot be addressed or discussed and what to do if a sensitive issue does arise inadvertently.\n*   The independent facilitator should draft and disseminate meeting agendas and reading material in advance,.\n*   As soon as possible, transparently publish the goals of the initiative, the rules and conditions for participating, and any public outputs on a website.\n*   Meeting minutes can be approved by external legal counsels and stored by companies and the facilitator, in case competition authorities request to see them.\n*   Internal documents useful for benchmarking – such as codes of conduct or standard operating procedures – should be shared confidentially with the facilitator, who can anonymise and sanitise them to inform group discussions.\n*   No sharing of sensitive internal information such as prices or fees or blacklisting of third-party intermediaries.\n*   Hold an early brainstorming session to discuss trust-building and related topics.\n\n### Intrigued?\n\nSee more [details about the chapter](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcollective-action-against-corruption-competition-risk-companies-perspectives-antitrust) and a link to the publisher’s website.\n\nFor more information on this topic, or other questions on anti-corruption Collective Action and compliance, feel free to reach out to the Basel Institute’s Collective Action team through our new [Helpdesk service](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fb20-collective-action-hub\u002Fcollective-action-helpdesk).\n\nYou’ll find more resources and publications on the [B20 Collective Action Hub](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fb20-collective-action-hub), a free online resource centre and database on anti-corruption Collective Action around the world.\n\nTo see the power of Collective Action in practice, explore the activities and achievements of the [Maritime Anti-Corruption Network](https:\u002F\u002Fmacn.dk\u002F).\n\n### About _Perspectives on Antitrust Compliance_\n\nEdited by Anne Riley, Andreas Stephan and Anny Tubbs, the book focuses on debates surrounding the function and design of antitrust compliance programmes. Its starting point is that increasingly, antitrust compliance is seen by companies not as a standalone topic, but as part of a suite of compliance efforts needed by companies to ensure that they comply with societal and shareholder expectations.\n\nThe book is available from [Concurrences](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.concurrences.com\u002Fen\u002Fall-books\u002Fperspectives-on-antitrust-compliance-105268). For a 5 percent discount, use the code BASEL5 on checkout. 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By gathering together such a diverse group of stakeholders, the event itself illustrated the concept of Collective Action.\n\nMulti-stakeholder approaches to business integrity through Collective Action is something that Siemens AG has been promoting for many years, including through its funding of organisations such as UNODC, our own [Collective Action team](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcollective-action) and many courageous civil society and business organisations around the world.\n\nThe benefit of this joined up, collective approach was stressed by all panelists. Opening the event in a pre-recorded video statement, Dr. Andreas C. Hoffmann, General Counsel and Head of Legal and Compliance at Siemens, together with his colleagues Annette Kraus (Chief Compliance Officer) and Sabine Zindera (Head of Collective Action & External Affairs), highlighted the importance of building sustainable Collective Action networks to enable fair market conditions.\n\nThis is a message that Siemens lives up to not only by funding projects projects across the globe through the [Siemens Integrity Initiative](https:\u002F\u002Fnew.siemens.com\u002Fglobal\u002Fen\u002Fcompany\u002Fsustainability\u002Fcompliance\u002Fcollective-action.html), but also by including Collective Action as a prevention tool in its compliance system.\n\nMr El-Bagoury, CEO of Siemens Egypt, shared examples of how the company lives up to this in its day-to-day work. It consists of a combination of tangible Collective Action tools – in Egypt in the form of an Integrity Pact between Siemens and its respective business partners – and significant investment in building the capacity of the workforce, partners and intermediaries. Originally developed for a large infrastructure project to build the third-largest powerplant in the world, the model is now being replicated for a big mobility project in Egypt.\n\nOther panelists also highlighted the importance of education and training, within companies but also across society as a whole, in order to significantly shift the business environment towards a culture of integrity. This concept is at the heart of the work presented by UNODC which, over the past years and with support from Siemens, has reached over 7,000 students worldwide. The UNODC programme also makes an important contribution to mainstreaming integrity across all types of businesses, with its Collective Action project providing tailored support and training to small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nThis need to reach out to all types of businesses was strongly supported by H.E. Mr. Wagner de Campos Rosário, Minister of the Office of the Comptroller General, Brazil. Sharing some of the lessons learned by the Brazilian government from the Lava Jato\u002FOdebrecht case, he underscored the importance of regulating state-owned enterprises (SOEs) similarly to the rules applicable to privately owned enterprises. He also emphasised the need to invest in the development of SOE compliance systems, as SOEs form an integral part of the business environment in many countries.\n\nThe value of constantly reviewing and, if needed, amending the applicable regulatory framework was supported by the representatives from the Egyptian Ministry for Electricity and Renewable Energy. As part of Egypt’s desire to open up the country’s energy sector while also ensuring transparency and fair competition, significant efforts were made to strategically amend and develop relevant laws, reduce red tape by establishing e-platforms, and set up accountability mechanisms.\n\nMs. Shirazi, Head of Legal at construction company Orascom, the first Egyptian multinational corporation, agreed that a clear regulatory framework is important. This is because when the rules are clear, companies like Orascom can focus on embracing business integrity and compliance as an asset and not a cost. When openly declared and unequivocally supported from the top, ethics and integrity are a protective shield for companies, even in high-risk sectors. These “soft factors” are extremely important, and should also include harnessing business integrity as a currency to build trust with other stakeholders.\n\nPedro Gomez Pensado, the Head of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF)’s [Partnering against Corruption Initiative](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.weforum.org\u002Fcommunities\u002Fpartnering-against-corruption-initiative) (PACI), confirmed that he observed similar trends in the WEF community as previous panelists have noted. In particular, he stressed the increased emphasis of the next generation on integrity and broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics. Gomez Pensado expects this to have a significant impact on the labour market of tomorrow, where a company’s commitment to integrity is increasingly seen as a decisive factor in employment decisions taken by young entrants to the labour force.\n\nThis momentum is likely to be bolstered by a growing recognition that ESG is about more than “just” the environment. Indeed. strong ESG momentum will inevitably shift its emphasis on establishing a culture of integrity as a foundation for all other ESG requirements. New technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain bring new opportunities but also potential ethical risks. Companies and governments should get ahead of this development.\n\nOverall, panelists agreed that business integrity was a fast-developing concept, and that rapid progress has been made in recent years.\n\nTo wrap up, the panel moderator Gretta Fenner, Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance, noted that the discussion was almost a recipe for how business integrity can and will work: through a joined-up effort tackling corruption at every level and from every angle, bringing together culture and laws, spanning the smallest and largest enterprises, uniting competitiveness and integrity, and building on awareness, understanding and trust. Or, in two words: Collective Action.\n\nFind out more about Collective Action for business integrity on the [B20 Collective Action Hub](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fb20-collective-action-hub).","2021-12-23",[25,107],"stepping-up-global-action-for-business-integrity-takeaways-from-a-cosp-9-side-event-2152",[870,570],"Events",2152,[25,107,114],[870,570],[649,25],{"id":876,"storage":36,"filename_disk":877,"filename_download":653,"title":864,"type":579,"created_on":878,"modified_on":878,"charset":11,"filesize":879,"width":656,"height":880,"duration":11,"embed":11,"description":11,"location":11,"tags":11,"metadata":881,"focal_point_x":11,"focal_point_y":11,"tus_id":11,"tus_data":11,"uploaded_on":878},"4eaf1358-5c0b-4505-8128-27ff22f60411","4eaf1358-5c0b-4505-8128-27ff22f60411.webp","2025-05-12T21:17:11.000Z",42842,933,{},[],[884],{"id":885,"news_id":886,"tags_id":899},5050,{"id":861,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":862,"user_updated":51,"date_updated":863,"title":864,"type":564,"body":865,"image":876,"date":866,"topic":887,"slug":868,"activity":888,"nid":871,"topics":889,"activities":890,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":891,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":892,"tags":893,"authors":894,"images":896,"translations":897,"content":898},[25,107],[870,570],[25,107,114],[870,570],[649,25],[],[885],[895],1176,[],[],[],{"id":4,"name":5},[901],{"id":895,"news_id":902,"authors_id":914},{"id":861,"status":10,"user_created":50,"date_created":862,"user_updated":51,"date_updated":863,"title":864,"type":564,"body":865,"image":876,"date":866,"topic":903,"slug":868,"activity":904,"nid":871,"topics":905,"activities":906,"programme":11,"area":11,"websites":907,"translation_of":11,"language":11,"countries":908,"tags":909,"authors":910,"images":911,"translations":912,"content":913},[25,107],[870,570],[25,107,114],[870,570],[649,25],[],[885],[895],[],[],[],{"id":915,"name":916,"position":11,"image":917},293,"Scarlet Wannenwetsch","d9d0987f-7bda-4ad1-b9fe-c2704767a025",[],[],[],20,{"items":923,"total":924},[],0,{"items":926,"total":924},[],1780676624620]