How can companies contribute to a corruption-free business environment in order to create an innovative level playing field for sustainable and successful business?
Public voting has opened for this year’s prestigious Collective Action Awards.
Launched in 2022, the Collective Action Awards celebrate inspiring and outstanding multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise standards of business integrity in a particular context. Two award categories are available: “Outstanding Achievement” and “Inspirational Newcomer”.
Paris is known as the city of love. But once a year, during the OECD Global Anti-Corruption Forum (GACIF), it also becomes the beating heart of integrity – at least for the anti-corruption community.
Under the theme “Designing our future with integrity”, this year’s Forum brought together anti-corruption experts from business, government and civil society from around the world to explore trends in the fight for integrity and against corruption.
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Collective Action in an Era of Crises
This report reflects on the International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) 2023 Forum. The World Bank Group’s fifth edition of the International Corruption Hunters Alliance convened more than 350 participants from over 80 countries, on June 14–16, 2023, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, that involved direct exchanges between practitioners to learn from one another and build stronger links in support of anti-corruption Collective Action efforts, particularly with and among West and Central African countries.
This Resource Guide provides States with a framework for identifying and implementing an appropriate mix of sanctions and incentives for encouraging business integrity. It reflects the latest developments in the global anti-corruption landscape and contains case studies that serve to share information and practices and provide inspiration to States and the private sector.
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Investing With Integrity II: How Corruption Undermines Environmental And Social Outcomes
This is a guide for impact investors on how corruption can undermine environmental and social outcomes, and about how coordinating due diligence across business integrity and environmental and social workstreams can help identify these links. This guidance puts business integrity at the heart of impact investing.
This blog was originally published on the FCPA Blog, which was discontinued in February 2024.
2023 was a mixed bag for the business integrity community. On the one hand, the B20 – the voice of business of the G20 forum of major economies – had no Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the Indian Presidency. That was a major missed opportunity for all of us who care about raising standards of business integrity around the world.
The Basel Institute is pleased to be a Knowledge Partner to 2024 OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum. Members of our Private Sector team will be present during the Forum and entire OECD Integrity Week.
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Business integrity was among the priority topics at the 10th session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in December 2023. For the first time ever, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) together with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) hosted a Private Sector Forum in the margins of CoSP10.
Nominations are now open for the International Collective Action Awards 2024.
Launched in 2022, the prestigious Collective Action Awards celebrate inspiring and outstanding multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise standards of business integrity in a particular context. Two award categories are available: