Best Practice on Anti-Corruption Incentives and Sanctions for Business

Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance

Best Practice on Anti-Corruption Incentives and Sanctions for Business

Mission

Promote integrity in business practices by developing and sharing best practices on anti-corruption incentives and sanctions

Goals

The project aimed at providing interested parties from government, business, and civil society with an overview of existing and potential mechanisms for incentives and sanctions to encourage companies to engage against corruption.

Further to a multi-stakeholder selection process of priorities, comprehensive research was conducted to prepare a catalog of qualitative assessments of the effectiveness or reasons for failures of each identified anti-corruption incentive and sanction. This included explanatory comments to facilitate their increased or improved use in enforcement practice and as voluntary measures.

Stakeholders

The project was implemented by the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance with funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative.

Activities

The applicability of selected key incentives and sanctions was tested with local multi-stakeholder pilot groups in selected countries by identifying key agents and moderating dialogs to advance the effective change process. Outcomes of these activities were used to develop (1) a practitioner handbook which comprises experiences, learning and best practices, and (2) learning modules to support online as well as in-person training. Both outcomes provide a sustainable framework for further education and motivation in implementing such mechanisms.

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Start Year

Status

  • completed
    Work has finished and deliverables/tasks have been completed.

Countries Operations

    Countries Host

    Scope

    • global
      Initiative that is explicitly global in focus and mandate - i.e. not pertaining to specific countries.

    Industry

    Stakeholders

    • Private sector
      Privately owned commercial (for-profit) entities of all sizes, including SMEs
    • Public sector
      National and sub-national, local government entities, agencies from all branches (policy-making, executive, adjudication)
    • Civil society
      non-governmental organisations (national or international), foundations funded by private entities, faith-based organisations, Professional associations, Industry associations, Chambers of Commerce, Local Global Compact Networks
    • Academia
      research and education institutions (privately or state owned)

    Type

    • Engagement-focused initiative
      Joint declarations of intent, Joint capacity and learning initiatives, Industry-specific working groups, Joint events/awareness raising, Joint activities and integrity tools

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