The Basel Institute is pleased to be a Knowledge Partner to 2024 OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum. Members of our Private Sector team will be present during the Forum and entire OECD Integrity Week.
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Business integrity was among the priority topics at the 10th session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in December 2023. For the first time ever, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) together with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) hosted a Private Sector Forum in the margins of CoSP10.
Corruption and fraud risks in public procurement are a concern all over the world – including Bulgaria, where scandals around infrastructure and procurement projects damage trust in government, drain the public budget and may also affect EU development funds.
We are excited to launch a new project on addressing corruption risks in the emergency response of the Malawian health system.
Our team of collaborators will analyse corruption risks emerging in three kinds of crisis situations:
At the second public Follow-the-Money Working Group meeting for 2024, Ian Gary and Julia Yansura of the FACT Coalition will talk about the United States' role in tackling illicit financial flows related to environmental crimes in the Amazon.
The meeting will be held on Zoom in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and French. It is open to current members of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum and its Follow-the-Money Working Group, as well as those potentially interested in joining.
Authorities in Cusco in southeast Peru have succeeded in recovering a house and land linked to acts of corruption by the former mayor of the province of Canchis, using a recently introduced non-conviction based forfeiture law.
The Basel Institute's Public Governance team has a new name: Prevention, Research and Innovation.
The name better reflects our team’s role connecting corruption research with anti-corruption practice and piloting innovative anti-corruption interventions.
Claudia Baez Camargo, who has led our research and prevention activities since 2009, said:
Corruption was on the main programme of the Munich Security Conference on 16–18 February 2024 for the first time.
At the Basel Institute we connect our IT, eLearning and training activities closely. The result is more effective and efficient capacity building that takes advantage of technological advances while keeping trainees’ learning experience at the centre.
If someone gives a healthcare worker a “gift” in return for faster treatment, is that a bribe or just a cultural expectation? Are some cultures inherently more corrupt than others? And does the meaning of corruption vary according to cultural context?
These are just some of the controversial and complex issues that scholars have asked in relation to culture and corruption.