The project supported nongovernmental parties, including businesses, in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia to participate in formulating and monitoring national anti-corruption reforms by providing them with specialised training programs and specific tools to:
Code of Ethics for Business in Kenya
The Code is a long-term initiative for the business community in Kenya that has the potential to evolve, depending on changes in the country's business environment. It is intended to enable a cogent level of commitment by business to contribute to building a globally competitive and prosperous Kenya.
SHTP Business Integrity Action
This Collective Action initiative aims to support companies in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) to work collectively to proactively manage risks, promote integrity and safeguard their businesses, through a shared commitment to business ethics.
This initiative brings together companies to promote transparency and integrity through the signing of an agreement and provides a space for companies to report on the actions that they undertake to address corruption risks. It features three main components:
Leveling the playing field with Turkish Integrity Center of Excellence – TICE Phase I & II
Since 2014, the Turkish Integrity Center of Excellence (TICE) has been working on elevating the awareness on the corruption effects and developing tools to combat it in the private sector while also setting an example for public sector with its content development and capacity building activities. With this project, TICE aims now to take its efforts to the next level and elevate the integrity risk management abilities of local companies to match the high “extended enterprise integrity risk management” standards of multinational companies.
Healthcare Integrity Action
The project aimed to enforce a “Healthcare Integrity System” in the Italian healthcare sector to improve the national healthcare sector’s efficiency and to reduce the risk of corruption through transparency, integrity and accountability. The project aimed to increase the awareness of corruption, educate and train, and implement and test innovative anti-corruption tools and organizational models through Collective Action initiatives with hospitals, Local Health Authorities (LHA), civil society and companies.
The main objectives of the project were to:
The project aimed to prevent corruption and create fair market conditions in Spain by improving corporate governance in the private sector and enhancing transparency in public services and procurement. The impact of this project was an improvement in quality of the corporate governance system. Throughout implementation, the project examined:
MedKompas
The MedKompas initiative of POLMED has focused on fighting corruption and raising the importance of compliance in healthcare systems in Poland since 2010. POLMED believes that if the gap between the legislation and people’s values and social norms is too large, then even the most restrictive legal regulations will not help to fight corruption. This is why the activities are geared towards shaping ethical values in the public and private healthcare sectors.
During the MedKompas II project, POLMED:
This project enhanced the level of transparency and accountability in business transactions in the energy sector in Africa. The goal of the project was two-fold:
Conference Vetting System
The Conference Vetting System reviews the compliance of third-party educational conferences with the Eucomed Code of Ethical Business Practice (the “Code”) to determine the appropriateness for companies which are members of Eucomed and members of the national associations affiliated with Eucomed to sponsor Healthcare Professionals to participate in such conferences.
The goal of the project is to sensitise, capacitate and help large companies to adopt responsible business practices and influence their supply chains as well as involve local stakeholders and governmental agencies to create awareness.
The project is aimed at increasing awareness of current anti-corruption laws and regulations and promoting healthy business practices that are sustainable and replicable. Also, increasing the scope of the existing legislations may also effectively prevent problems for the payer.