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:
Together against Corruption provides the strategic framework for Transparency International’s (TI) collective ambition and actions for the years 2016-2020. The movement’s fourth strategy, it builds on the rich diversity of the TI movement, with its unique governance structure that includes independent national chapters, individual members and an international secretariat.
Recognising the local realities in which TI operates, this strategy does not intend to cover everything we do. Rather, it focuses on the key areas in which TI seeks to move forward collectively.
This article illustrates an early example of corporate Collective Action, the Wolfsberg Group, and charts its development from its inception, in 1999, up to 2012. The Wolfsberg Group is an association of eleven banks that took its name from the Château Wolfsberg where the banks held their first meetings and where they continue to hold their annual forum.
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.
This case focuses on a private sector initiative to fight deep-seated corruption in Thailand.
The Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption (CAC) was founded by a charismatic business scion in late 2010, but an untimely heart attack a few months later left CAC reeling. A new leader named Bandid Nijathaworn was suddenly responsible for delivering the rapid growth and good-faith commitments that his predecessor had envisioned.
This report presents background information to participants of the OECD Russia Corporate Governance Roundtable organised for the 19th November 14 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
The report addresses the issue of related party transactions on an international scale and in Russia. It outlines the international context in which related party transactions are regulated across jurisdictions.
The Basel Institute on Governance and the Centre for Anti-Corruption Studies (CEA) of the University of San Andrés, Argentina convened a private-sector roundtable in Buenos Aires on 4 October 2018.
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.