Israel

Maala’s Corporate Social Responsibility Collective Voluntary Anti-Corruption Standard Programme

Maala – Business for Social Responsibility

Maala’s Corporate Social Responsibility Collective Voluntary Anti-Corruption Standard Programme

Mission

Encourage Israeli companies to voluntarily adopt and strengthen standards of transparency, ethics, corporate governance and anti-corruption

Goals

The aim of the project was to encourage Israeli companies to voluntarily adopt and strengthen standards of transparency, ethics, corporate governance and anti-corruption.

Stakeholders

The project was implemented by Maala with funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative.

Activities

Maala concentrated its efforts on promoting and encouraging a culture of ethics and integrity in the Israeli business community. Rather than treating ethics and integrity as only a technical compliance issue, it was approached more comprehensively as a human-behavior and corporate culture issue in order to bring about behavioral change. Main activities included:

  • Expanding the section on assessment of ethical and governance standards of the Maala Index;
  • Increasing the number of companies in the Maala Index and educating investors about the benefits of the index;
  • Developing and publication of a working tool-kit that helps to understand, implement and practice anti-corruption/bribery and ethical governance standards;
  • Conducting a media campaign, which creates awareness of the business sector’s obligation to abide by ethical management, corporate governance and anti-corruption standards;
  • Conducting 11 learning sessions;
  • Conducting an annual conference to serve as a forum for public dialogue and to raise awareness.

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Start Year

Status

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

Countries Operations

Countries Host

Scope

  • national
    Initiative that operates in and focuses mainly on one country, whether on a national or sub-national level.

Industry

Stakeholders

  • Private sector
    Privately owned commercial (for-profit) entities of all sizes, including SMEs
  • 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

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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