The role of business organizations, professional bodies and civil society organizations.

 



Business organizations, professional bodies, and civil society organizations are crucial providers of education, training and awareness-raising materials related to anti-corruption. Business organizations at national and international level have powerful networks that include companies of all sizes and across sectors. This helps them collect and spread best practices and organize impactful training programs and awareness-raising measures. Sectoral business associations represent businesses from a specific sector and can complement these activities through more targeted initiatives. Professional bodies (e.g., professional accountancy organizations, bar associations, etc.) also play an important role in the education and training of their members on anti-corruption topics directly, as well as on instilling and enforcing codes of ethics on their members and future members. This has been recognized in the OECD Anti-BriberyRecommendation, which provides: Professional associations that exercise regulatory powers over certain professions may also play a significant role in adopting and implementing robust ethics standards for their members, including by setting out frameworks on actions to be taken by their members to prevent bribery or when confronted with suspected acts of foreign bribery and related offences committed by clients or employers. This education is often provided as part of the prequalification training and reinforced by ongoing continuing professional development membership requirements. Given the critical role that professionals play within or as advisers to business, and in the public sector, professional education and ethics are an important component of the anti-corruption education ecosystem.

Finally, Civil Society Organizations provide a variety of tools and programs to foster integrity through education and training. Many of them are tailored to the needs of private companies and often they partner up with companies and business organizations. Transparency International, for example, offers trainings to sensibilize companies’ staff and leadership of integrity risks in their operations. The organization also hosts an annual School on Integrity. This state of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training exposes future leaders to the Latest developmentsin the field of anti-corruption and accountability and offers real opportunities to try and implement their ideas in practice.

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