21st International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC)
A delegation from the Basel Institute will attend the 21st International Anti-Corruption Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania on 18–21 June 2024.
A delegation from the Basel Institute will attend the 21st International Anti-Corruption Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania on 18–21 June 2024.
It is with great sadness that we confirm the tragic death of our Managing Director Gretta Fenner in a car accident.
Gretta has been an extraordinary force for change in the fight against corruption – both personally and through the Institute that she lovingly and passionately built and led for so many years. We, and our partners and counterparts around the world, will miss her greatly.
Her family and friends are in our thoughts as we come to terms with this news. We will keep all informed about plans to honour her memory and celebrate her as she deserves.
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.
The University of Basel's Centre for African Studies, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute at the University of Freiburg and the Basel Institute on Governance are organising two workshops to deepen the exchange on issues of citizenship, with a focus on East Africa.
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.
The next Plenary Session of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum will look at the challenges and good practices in gender-sensitive approaches to addressing environmental corruption. We will:
This document takes stock of recent progress (July 2023 to February 2024) in strengthening Ukraine’s anti-corruption ecosystem with a view to safeguarding Restoration projects. It covers:
Asset recovery tools are integral to combating corruption, organised crime, sanctions evasion and other profit-motivated crimes. However, in many participating States of the OSCE, the range of asset recovery tools available to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies is limited.
This Working Paper identifies legislative mechanisms in OSCE participating States that empower the state to confiscate suspected or proven proceeds of crime. The overall objective is to ascertain:
The Steering Committee meeting of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under the Support to Zambia’s Multi-Agency Approach to Fighting Corruption programme on 20 March 2024 in Lusaka was a testimony to the strong leadership and commitment of Zambia’s key anti-corruption and accountability institutions to move ahead together to recover Zambia’s stolen assets.