The Alliance for Integrity is a business-driven, multi-stakeholder initiative seeking to promote transparency and integrity in the private sector. To achieve this goal, it fosters collective action of all relevant actors from the private sector, the public sector and civil society.

The Alliance for Integrity is a platform that offers practical solutions to strengthen the compliance capacities of companies and their supply chains. In addition, the initiative contributes to the improvement of framework conditions by fostering dialogue between the public and private sectors.

Basel Art Trade Guidelines

The Basel Art Trade Guidelines seek to support the art market in its efficient and fair functioning. They aim to provide practical guidance for the sale of art objects. The Guidelines seek to establish, through a self-regulatory mechanism, the provenance of an art object and the provenance of the funds used in the purchase of the object.

The ICC Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-corruption is a leading global private sector body that develops policy recommendations and practical tools on corporate responsibility and fighting corruption.

The Commission brings together over 250 members from 40 countries, representing multinationals, banks, law firms, trade associations and SMEs. Members actively shape policy work through an exchange of experience and know-how to develop a “one-stop-shop” for businesses of all sizes looking to strengthen their CSR performance.

This initiative aimed to develop anti-corruption policies and procedures for companies, with special emphasis on SMEs. It also focused on identifying corruption and enhancing transparency and integrity in business to government (B2G) transactions, mainly in government procurement.

The approach taken by this initiative was to combine the actions SMEs should do to tackle corruption in their operations with the reasons why they should put their energies behind a commitment to fight corruption. This was addressed in two work streams:

The Business Ethics Initiative seeks to promote anti-corruption and ethical business principles in Indonesia. Between 1999 and 2012, the Initiative:

  • conducted 44 workshops on "Managing Ethical Dilemma for Facilitating Payment" and "Building Collective Action for Anti-Corruption";
  • conducted 11 workshops on “Developing Business Codes of Conduct for SMEs” in 7 provinces with almost 400 SMEs;
  • issued Guidelines for SMEs to develop Business Codes of Conduct (CoC);
  • published four books on Business Ethics and CoC issues.

The initiative arose in order to address the implementation gap in taxation, administrative barriers, and corruption at the regional level. It stems from a nine-year project of the Center for International Private Enterprise, seeking to improve the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia.

Publications capturing the project’s best practices have been published by CIPE in Arabic and French. Anti-corruption and coalition-building techniques developed under the project have also been applied by CIPE in Ukraine, Thailand and Lebanon.