Best Practice on Anti-Corruption Incentives and Sanctions for Business

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

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.

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

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.