Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery
Description
In policies, procedures, culture, and decision-making, the company and its representatives are trained, empowered, and expected to detect and prevent bribery and corruption. The company collects and records fit-for-purpose data to support its anti-corruption and anti-bribery efforts. The company empowers workers to report corruption, bribery, and other types of illegal or unethical activities and has transparent processes (including a hotline) for whistleblowers to disclose such unethical or illegal practices (anonymously, if desired). The company investigates such reports promptly and ensures whistleblowers are protected from retaliation, reprisals, or intimidation.
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Resources
Global Anti-Bribery Guidance
This platform can help you understand anti-bribery and corruption best practice. It explores a wide range of topics, including risk planning, financial controls, conflicts of interest, and reporting. It also provides country-by-country summaries of existing anti-bribery legislation and a list of anti-corruption resources. This platform will be most useful to legal and compliance departments.
The Business Integrity Toolkit
The Business Integrity Toolkit from Transparency International can help you integrate anti-corruption practices and safeguards across your business strategy. Toolkit is based on a six step process: 1) committing to an anti-corruption programme 'from the top,' 2) assessing the current status and risk environment, 3) planning the anti-corruption programme, 4) acting on the plan, 5) monitoring controls and progress, and 6) reporting internally and externally on the programme. For each step there is a brief overview, a list of what is needed to implement it, and tools to support implementation. This toolkit will be most useful to legal, compliance, and risk teams.
Guide to Combating Corruption and Fraud
This comprehensive and interactive guide from the International Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (IACRC) can help you counter corruption. It has three sections that provide step-by-step instruction on how to detect, prove, and prevent corruption, such as bribery, bid rigging, collusive bidding, and fraud.
Although this guide is written from an international development lens, it provides relevant guidance for business. This includes how to identify ‘red flags’, respond to complaints, and conduct investigations. It also lists additional resource for mitigating corruption risk.
Anti-Bribery and Corruption Risk Assessment Checklist
This checklist produced by NAVEX outlines how you can create an effective anti-bribery compliance programme. It consists of a checklist of actions organised within a protect, detect, and correct methodology, including risk assessments, communications, oversight activities, and more. This actionable guidance will be most useful to legal and compliance professionals, as well as supply chain managers.
Bribery & Corruption Red Flags: How to Respond to Corruption Indicators
This white paper produced by NAVEX can help you understand how to mitigate corruption risk in business. It provides an overview of national legislation; voluntary guidelines on corruption; a list of internal corruption risk indicators related to specific business processes; and a list of external corruption risks and suggested responses related to the use of third parties, such as agents, consultants, and distributors.
Stories of Change: Better Business by Preventing Corruption
This report from Transparency International can help you understand how to prevent corruption and build business integrity. It explains the business case for corporate integrity, outlines the importance of disclosures in creating accountability, and highlights anti-corruption practices through a series of case studies from Transparency International’s work in Indonesia, Italy, and Mexico. It also includes a resources section on page 19. This guidance will be most useful to legal and compliance teams.
Business Principles for Countering Bribery
This framework from Transparency International can help you develop and implement effective anti-bribery policies. It recommends minimum requirements for your anti-bribery programme, and includes guidance for assessing bribery risk, defining programme scope, and programme implementation. The guidance will be most useful to Legal and Compliance departments.
Corruption Perceptions Index 2022
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks countries and territories around the world by perceived levels of public sector corruption, and can help you understand where national governments have the least ability to protect the public and uphold the rule of law. The index shows that progress against corruption continues to stagnate around the world; high scores indicate strong institutions and well-functioning democracies, and low scores indicate impacts from conflict or from the restriction of personal and political freedoms. This tool can help inform your Risk, Legal, Supply Chain, and Business Development teams about security risk trends that may affect your operations or value chain.
Business Against Corruption: A Framework for Action
This framework from the UN Global Compact and others can help you address the risk of corruption across your operations. It is specifically designed to enable the UN Global Compact’s 10th principle against corruption, which has proven to be the most challenging principle to enact. It explains why it is important to fight corruption; explains the objective of the UNGCs 10th Principle; and provides a six-step process to manage corruption. It also discusses the important role of collective action and highlights additional tools and resources. This resource will be most useful to legal, compliance, and supply chain practitioners.
RESIST: Resisting Extortion and Solicitation in International Transactions
This employee training tool was created by the International Chamber of Commerce, the UN Global Compact, and others to help train employees to resist bribery and corruption. It features 22 real-life scenarios, and for each scenario it explains the best ways to prevent and respond to extortion- and solicitation-related pressures. Although not an exhaustive list of scenarios, they cover both the project bidding and post-award stages. This resource will be most useful to those responsible for ethics and compliance training, as well as individual employees involved in sales, operations, and supply chain management.
The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA)
The International Anti-Corruption Academy’s (IACA) Global Research Network publishes research and guidance that can help you better understand how to address the issue of corruption. It includes practical guidelines on topics such as anti-corruption compliance standards and whistleblowing. This platform will be most useful to legal and compliance departments.