Both in investment and in commercial arbitration, arbitrators face considerable challenges if a party alleges – or the arbitrators suspect – that corruption has influenced the underlying dispute.

Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finance co-developed a new Code of Ethics and Conduct as part of its efforts to combat corruption and promote ethical principles and moral values.

The Code was collaboratively developed by ministry officials with technical assistance from SECO-funded Public Finance Management programme implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance in Peru. 

Asset recovery refers to the process by which the proceeds of crime are identified, traced, seized, confiscated and returned to their rightful owners. Generally speaking, States need to lead the process of recovering stolen assets. 

However, civil society organisations (CSOs) can play an important role in the different stages of the asset recovery process. 

This guide:

These practical guidelines are a set of international good practices intended to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of requesting and requested states in the asset recovery process.

Asset recovery is an intricate and time-consuming process. The guidelines unravel the asset recovery process, breaking it down into practical, manageable guidelines, allowing a targeted audience to focus on the asset recovery process in a comprehensive manner.

Protocol for monitoring annual budget execution in Peru

The purpose of these guidelines is to set out good practices that have helped to improve budget execution monitoring procedures in Peruvian regional and municipal governments.

The publication was developed in the context of the Subnational Public Finance Management Strengthening Programme in Peru, funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO) and implemented by the Basel Institute on Governance through its Peru office. 

RESIST (Resisting Extortion and Solicitation in International Transactions) is designed as a training tool to provide practical guidance for company employees on how to prevent and/or respond to an inappropriate demand by a client, business partner or public authority in the most efficient and ethical way, recognizing that such a demand may be accompanied by a threat.

RESIST is intended primarily as a training tool to raise employee awareness on the risk of solicitation, including through frank discussion, and to propose practical ethical responses to dilemmas.

Bribery and corruption exist across all industries, but the engineering, construction and real estate sectors are particularly at risk, given the size, complexity and strategic importance of infrastructure-related initiatives in both advanced and emerging economies.

Companies conducting business beyond their domestic markets face growing legal and reputation risks.

The Good Practice Guidelines on Conducting Third Party Due Diligence are meant as a practitioner’s guide to managing these risks and are intended for all types of businesses.

This brochure outlines the rationale for and provides guidance on fighting corruption. It offers:

This report provides a succinct, practical guide to what anti-corruption aspects companies should report on.

It equips business with a practical means to report on anti-corruption policies and actions comprehensively and effectively. Public reporting sends a strong signal to employees, investors and consumers that a company is serious about clean business.