Global Action for Business Integrity

The Global Action for Business Integrity project aims to strengthen legal frameworks, promote public-private dialogue and guide companies and SMEs in developing compliance programs to prevent and combat corruption in the private sector.

The project is active in eight countries: Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Furthermore, it has a global component that plays a critical role in increasing effective approaches, achieving sustainability and disseminating best practices on business integrity into global politics.

OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES AND PARTNERSHIPS

To achieve its objectives, Global Action for Business Integrity implements several activities that:

• Promote legislative reforms to prevent and combat corruption;
• Increase government knowledge of legal frameworks and good practices;
• Improve communication between the public sector, the private sector, civil society and academia.

The project provides a common platform for dialogue and knowledge sharing between the public sector, private sector, civil society and academia to combat and prevent corruption.

Global Action for Business Integrity is funded by the Siemens Integrity Initiative. In Brazil, the project operates in partnership with the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU), SEBRAE, the UN Global Compact Network Brazil, the Alliance for Integrity Brasil and ICC Brasil

For more information, results and global and national impacts, access the project's global website (in English).

RESULTS IN BRAZIL

• Hackathon Coding4Integrity: aimed at developing digital, efficient and innovative ways to implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Held in São Paulo, the event brought together 46 young people from Brazil and Mexico, including developers and students, in 2022. The winning team was formed by four undergraduate students in computer engineering from UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Brazil, and a law student from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Léon, Mexico. They presented a solution that utilizes artificial intelligence to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in establishing a gender-sensitive whistleblowing system to detect and prevent gender-based corruption from harming employees and corporate communication channels.
• Research on the Promotion of Integrity based on Risk according to the New Bidding and Administrative Contracts Law (Law No. 14.133/2021): the research was launched at a hybrid event, in person at the Serzedello Corrêa Institute, at the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU), in Brasília, DF, and on the YouTube channels of UNODC, TCU and CGU, in August 2023. The research included an Integrity Risk Matrix, a tool developed by UNODC to help different government bodies at national, state and municipal level to identify corruption risks before and during bidding processes.
• Survey of the social perception of institutional and government relations professionals regarding the regulation of lobbying in Brazil: The survey, unprecedented in the country, involved 123 Institutional and Government Relations professionals and 25 stakeholders in the area. The main findings of the survey were presented to professionals representing the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), the Institute of Institutional and Government Relations (IRELGOV), the Brazilian Association of Institutional and Government Relations (ABRIG), the Association of Members of the Brazilian Courts of Accounts (ATRICON), the National Council for Internal Control (CONACI), the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and the Britto Brandão Minc Adv. Law Firm, during a meeting at UNODC headquarters in Brasilia in March 2024.
• Business Integrity Training for Brazilian Small and Medium-Sized Companies: attended by 35 representatives from 25 Brazilian micro, small and medium-sized companies, the training, divided into three sessions, sought to disseminate applied knowledge and promote business integrity among the participating SMEs, based on the presentation of Brazilian and international regulatory frameworks, with emphasis on the UNCAC. The training had the institutional support of SEBRAE and the participation of the Private Integrity Secretariat of the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), the UN Global Compact Network Brazil, the Alliance for Integrity, ICC Brazil and the Compliance Department of Siemens Brazil.

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