This guide helps businesses to learn more about the UN Global Compact Collection Action Project in partnership with five Global Compact Local Networks in Brazil, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.
It also aims to help improve anti-corruption practices within their individual organizations and to engage other businesses, governments and civil society in anti-corruption Collective Action.
Integrity Pacts have been used in more than 18 countries worldwide, among others in Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, South Korea and Zambia. They have been implemented at various levels and across numerous sectors.
This paper includes an overview of how an Integrity Pact can be initiated and their benefits.
This report lays out five defining features of corporate sustainability, which the Global Compact asks businesses to strive towards. It looks at why each element is essential, how business can move forward and what the Global Compact is doing to help.
The five elements are:
The purpose of this guidebook is to educate business people and compliance officers on the high cost of small bribes and to provide guidance on how to eliminate these payments from business practices.
The purpose of this guide is to provide short and practical guidance to companies on managing anti-corruption in the supply chain. It outlines the business case for fighting corruption in the supply chain and describes the main elements of an efficient anti-corruption programme for preventing corruption in the supply chain.
Selected references to relevant anti-corruption guidance material are also provided.
This report seeks to provide practical, step-by-step guidance on how to conduct anti-corruption risk assessment. It includes a six-step process to complete the assessment:
This report helps investors who wish to see meaningful progress in their engagements as well as companies that want to stay ahead of the curve to manage and minimize risks associated with bribery and corruption.
The guide is based on insights from data collected from investors by the Principles for Responsible Investment, as well as a series of interviews with investors and feedback from companies collected by the UN Global Compact.
This handbook has been produced by the Basel Institute on Governance in support of the USAID-funded project "Engaged Citizenry for Responsible Governance". It is meant to be used in conjunction with the handbook on social accountability methods, developed by the Basel Institute in support of the same project.
This handbook has been produced by the Basel Institute on Governance in support of the USAID-funded project "Engaged Citizenry for Responsible Governance”. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the handbook on participatory monitoring, developed by the Basel Institute in support of the same project.
Why do companies need Integrity Pacts?
It’s all too common for companies to encounter corruption during public procurement processes. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Foreign Bribery Report states that 57 per cent of foreign bribery cases which it assessed related to public procurement.In the EU alone, corrupt bidding processes have increased annual contract costs by US$5 billion. The effects can be disastrous, including exposing companies to serious risks, such as: