ICAR is collaborating with Streamhouse to develop and deliver a workshop in the context of a law enforcement training programme of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.

The workshop will focus on legal, investigative, prosecutorial and operational issues for successfully pursuing whistle-blower and other evidence in mineral fraud cases. The workshop will be delivered to enforcement officials of the region in early May 2013.

As part of a one-year train-the-trainer programme in Egypt, funded by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the ICAR training team implemented a first series of training sessions in Egypt, focusing on the investigation of complex corruption and money laundering cases and techniques for the recovery of stolen assets.

In pursuit of the Basel Institute’s mission to improve the quality of governance globally, and in the context of its related applied research initiatives, the Institute has developed and now offers a new curriculum for a 2 to 3-day workshop on “Quantitative and qualitative Research Methods on Corruption and their Application.”

The workshop is designed to provide working professionals and interested stakeholders with the necessary conceptual and methodological tools to undertake corruption research applicable to a wide variety of topics, contexts and aims.

During the first week of August, as part of the Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS) at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Vienna, Austria, Dr Claudia Baez Camargo, Senior Research Fellow of the Basel Institute, taught two courses, one on "Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods,” and one on "Corruption and Development.”

The participants of this Master programme represented an international group of 31 professionals, mostly officials from their respective countries' anti-corruption agencies.

ICAR is currently developing a regional training programme on “Financial Investigations and Recovering Stolen Assets” for a group of practitioners from relevant institutions from selected countries of the MENA region (Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, South Sudan and Yemen).

As part of the International Business Law LLM programme at the Europa Institute of the University of Zürich, the Institute’s compliance specialist, Gemma Aiolfi, also the Institute’s Head of Corporate Governance, Compliance & Collective Action, gave lectures on the topic of Corporate Criminal Law. This course module was offered for the first time in English to law students from around the world.

The course topics covered included corporate criminal liability, compliance and corruption.

On April 28-30 2014, the Basel Institute on Governance held a workshop on Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods on Corruption at the University of Basel, Switzerland. The workshop brought together a group of 18 academics, practitioners from governmental and non-governmental institutions, as well as private sector compliance officers from 9 countries (Armenia, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Greece, Indonesian, Italy, Peru and Switzerland).

In the context of ICAR's one-year multi-phase training programme in financial investigation and asset recovery for the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), funded by USAID/Management Systems International, ICAR has developed a series of new training modules jointly with the International Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (IACRC).

In an effort to increase understanding and interest in Collective Action as a tool to prevent and combat corruption through business and business-public partnerships, the ICCA trained representatives from the private and public sectors from Thailand, including Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission, on available Collective Action tools and methodologies, in the course of an information session held at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Vienna.

In June 2014, in the context of the Security Fund of the Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme, ICAR and the Superior Council of Magistracy of Romania delivered a 5-day training programme aimed at further developing the skills of members of the Romania National Anti-Corruption Directorate (NAD) to successfully investigate and prosecute international corruption and money laundering cases and recover stolen assets.