The Indian business community practices a multitude of anticorruption initiatives in silos. The Center encourages a shared focus among the business stakeholders in India and provide a platform for greater coordination, thereby increasing the reach and impact of business initiatives.
Essentially, the Center aims to:
The initiative aims at bringing companies operating in Vietnam together to work towards improving integrity and transparency in the way business is conducted. It is expected that the key objective will be achieved by focusing on three main activities.
The project aimed to enhance companies’ knowledge of how UNCAC can make a difference in their daily work both internally and in their interaction with public counterparts, and to encourage the business community to turn their anti-corruption commitments into action by bringing their integrity programs in line with the universal principles of UNCAC.
The project also sought to support educational institutions that they have a role to play in preparing the next generation of public and business leaders for the challenge of making ethical decisions.
This was achieved by:
The project aims to create systems of legal incentives to companies’ integrity efforts, hence encouraging business to come forward and report internal incidents of corruption.
The project aimed to enable non-governmental actors to help develop, implement and monitor national anti-corruption strategies in Arab countries. The project was a major component in a broader regional anti-corruption initiative that generated context-specific knowledge and supported inclusive anti-corruption policy reform in Arab countries.
Business Membership Organizations (BMOs) have become important players in the process of promoting transparency and fair markets. To strengthen anti-corruption initiatives in China, the project made available the expertise of German BMOs (German chambers of commerce and sectoral associations and their umbrella associations such as DIHK, BDI, etc.) and their members, in combination with the expert network of GIZ GmbH and sequa gGmbH.
The project aims at initiating Collective Action between foreign and local businesses in order to support fair market conditions. The Integrity Initiative will encourage companies to commit to having no tolerance for corruption, and to commit to sustainable development. The specific objectives are to:
Maala concentrated its efforts on promoting and encouraging a culture of ethics and integrity in the Israeli business community. Rather than treating ethics and integrity as only a technical compliance issue, it was approached more comprehensively as a human-behaviour and corporate culture issue in order to bring about behavioural change.
Main activities:
NABIS aims to educate university students by nurturing leadership with integrity. Current business leaders and good practices in business ethics will be identified in order to promote fair market conditions in the Republic of Korea.
NABIS trainers from Korean companies and Korean subsidiaries of Western and Northeast Asian companies operating in the Republic of Korea will teach NABIS students by using the NABIS curriculum, which includes case studies from their own companies.
The project aims to enable African business networks to implement anti-corruption initiatives and good governance practices.
Business networks and individual businesses seldom have the appropriate expertise to implement internationally developed anti-corruption and good governance guidelines, standards and initiatives, and are often unaware of their existence. Other challenges in the anti-corruption field relate to making impacts felt at the ground level, and creating platforms for the private and public sectors to engage on corruption challenges and Collective Action solutions.