Humboldt Viadrina School of Governance
Best Practice on Anti-Corruption Incentives and Sanctions for Business
| Country of implementation: | Global |
| Duration (in years): | 3 years |
| Funding volume in US-Dollar (million): | 1.3 M |
| Registered in: | Germany |
Project Summary
The project analyzes and tests in real world situations existing and potential anti-corruption incentives and sanctions to achieve a sustainable impact on the behavior of business by providing successful models for practical implementation.
It aims at providing interested parties from government, business, and civil society, with an overview of existing and potential mechanisms of incentives and sanctions to encourage companies to engage against corruption. Further to a multi-stakeholder selection process of priorities, comprehensive research will be conducted to prepare a catalog of qualitative assessments of the effectiveness or reasons for failures of each identified anti-corruption incentive and sanction. This will include explanatory comments to facilitate their increased or improved use in enforcement practice and as voluntary measures. The applicability of selected key incentives and sanctions will be 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 will be used to develop a practitioner handbook which comprises experiences, learning and best practices, and 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.
Description of Integrity Partner
The Humboldt Viadrina School of Governance in Berlin empowers and guides societal change agents by enabling them to reflect, act, and accomplish. Bridging society’s multiple stakeholders, the Humboldt Viadrina offers a unique portfolio of education, research, dialogues, projects and events – always seeking to advance practical implementation to drive societal change.
Formally founded in 2009, the Humboldt Viadrina School of Governance is a joint project between the Humboldt-University Berlin and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. The School is headed by Gesine Schwan, Stephan Breidenbach and Alexander Blankenagel, and advised by respectable global governance practitioners, including Kofi Annan, Peter Eigen, Pascal Lamy, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Joseph Nye, Mary Robinson, and Richard von Weizsäcker.
Humboldt Viadrina School of Governance (in German)
This project is supported by Siemens as part of the Siemens Integrity Initiative.
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