Principios empresariales para contrarrestar el soborno : edición para pequeñas y medias empresas (PYMES)

Transparency International (TI) es la organización de la sociedad civil que lidera la lucha contra la corrupción en el mundo, y a através de este informe propone exponer, de un modo claro y directo, el proceso mediante el cual las empresas pequeñas y medianas pueden desarrollar un programa adecuado para luchar contra el soborno, en función de su tamaño y recursos

Índice de Percepción de la Corrupción 2021

Dos años después del inicio de la catastrófica pandemia de covid-19, el Índice de Percepción de la Corrupción (CPI) advierte que el nivel de corrupción se encuentra estancado en todo el mundo. A pesar de sus compromisos sobre el papel, 131 países no han registrado ningún avance significativo en la última década, y este año 27 países se encuentran en el nivel más bajo de su trayectoria. Al mismo tiempo, los derechos humanos y la democracia se ven amenazados en todo el planeta. Con una puntuación media de 43 por tercer año consecutivo, los países de las Américas están paralizados en la lucha contra la corrupción. A pesar de tener un amplio desarrollo legislativo y un compromiso regional para luchar contra este mal, la corrupción en las Américas continúa debilitando la democracia y los derechos humanos. Los resultados del IPC2021 para El Salvador, indican que se mantiene un estancamiento en la lucha contra la corrupción: desde el año 2012 no se superan los 40 puntos. El país se ubica por debajo del promedio global. La atención sanitaria por la COVID-19 ha facilitado un clima de opacidad y afectación al derecho de acceso a la información pública. De igual forma, durante el último año se ha continuado con las medidas de cooptación de las instituciones de control. En general, los resultados para el año 2021, revelan que los niveles de corrupción se han mantenido en los últimos diez años, en medio de un entorno de abusos a los derechos humanos y deterioro de la democracia. Este año, los resultados del Índice de Percepción de la Corrupción indican que los países que protegen adecuadamente las libertades civiles y políticas suelen controlar mejor la corrupción. Las libertades fundamentales de asociación y expresión son esenciales en la lucha por un mundo libre de corrupción

Providing an alternative to silence: Towards greater protection and support for whistleblowers in Belgium

Transparency International Belgium publishes an overview of whistleblowing schemes in the Belgian public and private sector One of the biggest challenges in preventing and combating corruption detection and uncovering bribery, fraud, theft of public funds and other forms of misconduct. One of the most direct ways to bring corruption to light is whistleblowing (the "whistleblowing"). Unfortunately, whistleblowers are often the victims of reprisals in the form of harassment, dismissal, threats and even physical violence, and their revelations are systematically ignored. Transparency International Belgium (TI-B) is working towards the establishment of accessible reporting points for whistleblowers and aiming to provide sufficient protection for whistleblowers against retaliation. In this context, TI-B conducted research on whistleblowing schemes in operation in Belgium, both in the public and private sectors. An evaluation of these systems supplemented with recommendations can be viewed in the report 'Providing an alternative to silence: towards greater protection and support for whistleblowers in Belgium

Los negocios contra la corrupción : un marco para la acción : implementación del 10mo principio del Pacto Global de las Naciones Unidas contra la corrupción

Transparency International (TI) es la organización de la sociedad civil que lidera la lucha contra la corrupción en el mundo, y a através de este informe propone el Principio 10: en el que “Los negocios deberán actuar en contra de la corrupción en todas sus formas, incluyendo la extorsión y el soborno”

Paradigm shift or business as usual? Workers' views on multi-stakeholder initiatives in Bangladesh

The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future disasters and to acknowledge that business as usual was not an option. Prominent in these efforts were the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (hereafter the Accord) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Workers’ Safety (hereafter the Alliance), two multi‐stakeholder agreements that brought global buyers together in a coordinated effort to improve health and safety conditions in the ready‐made garment industry. These agreements represented a move away from the buyer‐driven, compliance‐based model, which hitherto dominated corporate social responsibility initiatives, to a new cooperation‐based approach. The Accord in particular, which included global union federations and their local union partners as signatories and held global firms legally accountable, was described as a ‘paradigm shift’ with the potential to improve industrial democracy in Bangladesh. This article is concerned with the experiences and perceptions of workers in the Bangladesh garment industry regarding these new initiatives. It uses a purposively designed survey to explore the extent to which these initiatives brought about improvements in wages and working conditions in the garment industry, to identify where change was slowest or absent and to ask whether the initiatives did indeed represent a paradigm shift in efforts to enforce the rights of workers

Constraints on Civil Society's Capacity to Curb Corruption

Summaries This article suggests reasons why it is particularly difficult for civil society to organise effectively to curb forms of corruption which disproportionately afflict the poor. We take issue with currently fashionable views on the state's ability to ‘foster’ the emergence of civil?society organisations which effectively articulate the interests of socially excluded people. The Indian case demonstrates the potential for state?fostering to produce precisely the kinds of ‘compromised’ civil?society organisations which inhibit the emergence of the most effective form of anti?corruption movement: one based upon the premise that citizens have a right to audit government finances in minute detail. Indeed, the organisation in India that has pioneered this radical means for increasing accountability to the poor consciously distances itself from state?sponsored efforts to influence the development of civil society. In Latin America — whence most of the evidence for the optimistic view of state?fostered civil society has been drawn — efforts to promote popular auditing (as opposed to participatory planning) are conspicuous by their absence. This raises suspicions that state?fostering of civil society, whatever its merits, comes at a heavy price: the proliferation of associations unwilling to migrate from ‘safe’ forms of participation to those which involve confronting powerful elites and challenging the state's prerogative of auditing its own financial conduct. Such groups appear disinclined to demand and obtain sensitive government records, let alone organise ordinary people to analyse such information to determine where funds allocated for their benefit have actually gone

Aid Transparency and Accountability: ‘Build It and They’ll Come’?

Concerns about the transparency of aid have become more prominent against a recent backdrop of donor commitments to increase aid effectiveness. Innovative approaches to providing more and better information about aid have been developed. This article explores the contemporary focus on aid transparency in the context of longer-standing concerns over accountable aid. It finds that the links between inputs, outputs and impacts in aid transparency and accountability initiatives are often not articulated or well-understood, and that the link between aid transparency and accountable aid is barely addressed. Future attempts to develop effective aid TAIs need to take full account of the diverse motivations, approaches and actors implicated in their – often implicit – theories of change, in particular the citizens of aid-recipient countries

Evaluating the impact of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on corruption in Zambia

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is internationally recognised as a leading anti-corruption scheme, which promotes transparency, accountability and good governance of public oil, gas, and mining revenues. This article provides the first rigorous quantitative investigation of the impact of EITI on corruption in Zambia. Using a case-comparison approach, called the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), we find that the implementation of EITI provoked a significant decrease in corruption in Zambia (with the corruption-reducing effect of EITI being, though, much stronger at the earlier stages of implementation)