A project of the Center for Civil Communications from 2018-2021, “Integrity and anti-corruption in the business sector” is an action that will strengthen civil society’s impact on decreasing corruption in the business sector by improving transparency, accountability and integrity of state-owned enterprises and increasing the private sector’s participation in the fight against corruption.

The action is expected to provide the following results:

The project aimed to create fair and clean business environment in China by submitting policy recommendations and building compliance capacities of all market participants. Research by the Beijing New Century Academy on Transnational Corporations (NATC) shows that while Chinese companies are highly motivated to comply with corporate rules on ethics, there is still a diverse range of Chinese companies which lack the ability to establish and implement such a compliance system.

In concrete terms, the project focused on attaining the following objectives:

The project supported nongovernmental parties, including businesses, in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia to participate in formulating and monitoring national anti-corruption reforms by providing them with specialised training programs and specific tools to:

This Collective Action initiative aims to support companies in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) to work collectively to proactively manage risks, promote integrity and safeguard their businesses, through a shared commitment to business ethics.

This initiative brings together companies to promote transparency and integrity through the signing of an agreement and provides a space for companies to report on the actions that they undertake to address corruption risks. It features three main components:

The aim of the project is to influence the behavior of business leaders, government representatives and students across the Gulf Region. It works through education and incentivization, and by building a local community that is sharing good integrity practices, leading the way in the implementation of better standards, and actively encouraging others to do so. The project is developing practical tools to be implemented by companies, particularly first-time adopters of such higher levels of integrity and transparency.

The project has three key objectives:

Since 2014, the Turkish Integrity Center of Excellence (TICE) has been working on elevating the awareness on the corruption effects and developing tools to combat it in the private sector while also setting an example for public sector with its content development and capacity building activities. With this project, TICE aims now to take its efforts to the next level and elevate the integrity risk management abilities of local companies to match the high “extended enterprise integrity risk management” standards of multinational companies.

This project of the Hacia La Integridad Collective Action initiative is implemented by the UNODC field office in Colombia, with the support of its headquarters in Vienna. It seeks to increase public and private dialogue and knowledge sharing to strengthen the development and implementation of measures addressed at corruption prevention, criminalisation and enforcement in line with the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

This is achieved by:

The Transparency International Secretariat will promote business integrity at three levels (individual businesses, groups of businesses, and the business environment), all of which are underpinned by Collective Action.

In order to achieve the objective of facilitating change at scale, the project aimed to improve the capacity of Transparency International to work as a catalyst for Collective Action at national level in multiple countries and advocate improved standards, norms and practices within international fora and initiatives. This involved:

The project aims to strengthen the corporate governance framework of Russian companies in line with international compliance standards in order to promote good practices of corporate governance and business integrity. The objectives of the project are threefold:

The project promoted clean business and fair market conditions in Morocco through supporting an anti-­corruption policy framework, Collective Action and integrity training in public procurement.

The project assisted government, business partners and civil society in Morocco in enabling change and promoting business integrity in selected sectors by: