Anticorruption Resources

1. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
2. USEFUL LINKS
3. SELECTED DOCUMENTATION
4. SELECTED BLOGS

1. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

African Union Convention on preventing and Combating Corruption

Council of Europe Civil Law Convention on Corruption

Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption and Additional Protocol

The European Union Convention on the Fight against Corruption Involving European Officials or Officials of Member States of the European Union

Organization of American States Inter-American Convention against Corruption (IACC)

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and related documents

United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)

2. USEFUL LINKS

 

International Organisations

The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN)

Council of Europe Action against economic crime and corruption

Council of Europe’s Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO)

Council of Europe PACE anti-corruption platform

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF)

International Anticorruption Academy (IACA)

OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

United Nations Global Compact

United Nations Development Program : The Governance Assessment Portal

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

World Bank Doing Business – Measuring Business Regulations

World Bank Integrity Presidency

World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery initiative (StAR)

Private Initiatives

APEC Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct for Business

The Asia Foundation

Basel Institute of Governance

B20 Initiative

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

GAN Business Anti-Corruption Portal

Global Integrity

Transparency International

U4 – Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

The Wolfsberg Group

World Economic Forum – Partnering Against Corruption Initiative

 

 

3. SELECTED DOCUMENTATION

Council of Europe

Recommendation on Codes of Conduct for Public Officials (Recommendation No.R(2000)10)

Recommendation on Common Rules against Corruption in the Funding of Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns (Recommendation Rec(2003)4)

Twenty Guiding Principles against Corruption (Resolution (97) 24)

European Union

Anticorruption policies revisited – Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption

Index of Public Integrity in 105 countries, including all EU countries

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Anti-corruption Third Party Due Diligence: A Guide for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises

Ethics and Compliance Training Handbook- Anti-corruption guidance by practitioners for practitioners

Fighting Corruption – International Corporate Integrity Handbook

Guidelines on Agents, Intermediaries and Other Third Parties

Guidelines on Gifts and Hospitality

Guidelines on Whistleblowing

Rules on Combating Corruption, 2011 Edition

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 

Fighting the Crime of Foreign Bribery – The Anti-Bribery Convention and the OECD Working Group on Bribery

Recommendation of the Council for Further Combating Bribery and Annex II – Good Practice Guidance on Internal Controls, Ethics and Compliance

Transparency International

ABC Anti-Bribery Checklist

Adequate Procedures: Guidance to the 2010 UK Bribery Act

Anti-Bribery Due Diligence for Transactions

Anticorruption Helpdesk : aims to meet the needs of a variety of stakeholders, including anti-corruption practitioners by addressing their questions drawing on the expertise of a network of experts and practitioners

Assurance Framework for Corporate Anti-Bribery Programmes

Bribe Payers Index

Business Integrity Toolkit

Business Principles for Countering Bribery, 2013 Edition

Business Principles for Countering Bribery – Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Edition

Business Survey: survey of some 3000 businesses in 30 countries on several issues relating to corruption including the efficacy of some measures to combat corruption

Corruption Perceptions Index: published annually

Doing Business Without Bribery: free 1.5 hour on-line learning module

Global Corruption Barometer : published at intervals of 2-3 years ; for 2015-2017 five regional reports (Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and theCaribbean)

Global Corruption Report : focus on specific issues (already published: sport, education, climate change, private sector, water sector, judicial system, health, construction and post-conflict reconstruction, political corruption, access to information)

Integrity Pacts in Public Procurement : an Implementation Guide

National Integrity Systems Project : European project consisting of an assessment of 13 key pillars (from the legislative and executive branches to the media, civil society and business) in 25 countries’ governance systems in terms of their corruption risks and contribution to fighting corruption

Self-Evalation Tool

United Nations Development Program

Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (PACDE)

United Nations Global Compact

Business Against Corruption: A Framework for Action: guidance on the UNGC 10th Principle – Anticorruption, including practical steps for a management model to fight corruption

A Guide for Anti-Corruption Risk Assessment

Reporting Guidance on the 10th Principle Against Corruption (together with Transparency International)

RESIST – Resisting Extortion and Solicitation in International Transactions, a tool for company training (together with the International Chamber of Commerce, Transparency International and the World Economic Forum

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Guidebook on anti-corruption in public procurement and the management of public finances

Resource Guide on Good Practices in the Protection of Reporting Persons

Technical Guide to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption

Track on Corruption

 

World Bank

Course: Use of Anti-Money Laundering Tools to Combat Corruption

Doing business – Measuring business regulations

Governance & Anti-corruption

Governance Indicators: indicators for over 200 countries for six dimensions of governance including control of corruption

Here are 10 ways to fight corruption

Financial Disclosure Law Library

Integrity Compliance Guidelines

License to Drill: A Manual for Integrity Due Diligence in Extractive Sectors

World Economic Forum – Partnering Against Corruption Initiative

Building Foundations for Trust and Integrity

Building Foundations Against Corruption – Recommendations on Anti-Corruption in the Infrastructure & Urban Development Industries

Infrastructure & Urban Development: Building Foundations for Transparency

Principles for Countering Bribery

Safeguarding Aviation and Travel Value Chains Against Corruption

 

4. SELECTED BLOGS

Asia-Pacific Integrity in Action Network (AP-INTACT) Blog

Collaborative for Development Action (CDA) – Corruption Blog

Compliance & Ethics Blog

FCPA Blog

FCPAmericas Blog

FCPA Compliance & Ethics Blog

FCPA Professor

GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog

GAN Integrity Compliance Blog

NYU Program on Corporate Compliance & Enforcement (PCCE) Blog

Safra Center for Ethics Blog

TheBriberyAct

TRACE International: TRACE Blog

Voices for Transparency

Wall Street Journal Corruption Currents