This article by Iker Lekuona explains the importance of asset recovery for crime prevention and highlights three vital aspects of international cooperation in corruption and asset recovery cases: informal cooperation mechanisms, trust and technical assistance.
ROUTES Partnership
The Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species Partnership (ROUTES Partnership), brings together transport and logistics companies, government agencies, development groups, law enforcement, conservation organisations, academia and donors.
The aim is to collectively develop ways to disrupt wildlife trafficking activities by reducing the use of legal transportation supply chains.
ROUTES is one of several industry-focused initiatives coordinated and supported by TRAFFIC.
United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce
The United for Wildlife Taskforces are a network of private, public and third-sector partners working individually and cooperatively to reveal, disrupt and prevent illegal wildlife trade (IWT).
The initiative, locally named “Jornada Íntegra”, seeks to build capacity in the country's private sector, with the support of other peers, whose experiences may act as a stimulus for the positive replication of the contribution that integrity brings to business.
The Jornada will take place in ten steps over a year. As a starting point, participants shall choose one of four main business objectives that they seek to achieve upon completion of the programme.
This project addresses three of the most pressing issues in the ongoing efforts to combat endemic corruption in Indonesia:
Great China Compliance
The project seeks to develop a compliance education program for college students and professionals. Furthermore, group work on compliance R & D and annual meetings for Collective Action will be launched as one aspect of the project.
The project will be divided in two parts.
This project will scale up the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)’s Collective Action programme in Nigeria, with the aim of improving efficiency of seaports and terminals services in Nigeria and enabling effective corruption prevention through improved compliance and create a culture of integrity.
The project intends to support the creation of a level-playing field and fair market conditions in three pilot countries from the Adriatic Region (Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) in order to enhance competitiveness and integrity in a sustainable and inclusive way.
It aims to gather government officials, business representatives, civil society and academia to form a “Collective Action” to address country-specific drawbacks by applying international standards, by:
Siemens launched the global Siemens Integrity Initiative in 2009, with more than USD 100 million to support organisations that fight corruption and fraud through Collective Action, education and training.
22 projects from more than 40 countries were selected for funding in the Third Funding Round to receive up to USD 25.2 million in funding.
Siemens launched the global Siemens Integrity Initiative in 2009, with more than USD 100 million to support organisations that fight corruption and fraud through Collective Action, education and training.
24 projects from more than 20 countries were selected for funding in the Second Funding Round of the Siemens Integrity Initiative to receive funding of up to USD 35.554 million. Funding applications were received from more than 180 well-known non-profit organisations from about 60 countries.