World Bank anti-corruption symposium / Connecting anti-corruption and human rights / Proactive Integrity Reviews

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Symposium on Data Analytics and Anticorruption (Event).  “A Symposium on Data Analytics and Anticorruption will be co-hosted by the World Bank and the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management on October 25-28…The papers cover four thematic areas: New data-driven approaches to detecting and measuring corruption; Using new data sources and methods to measure the impacts of corruption; Using open data to assess the effectiveness of anticorruption tools, policies, and interventions; Contributing new knowledge on  data access, quality, and privacy issues.”

World Bank: https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2021/10/25/symposium-on-data-analytics-and-anticorruption#1  

Thank you to James Anderson, World Bank for sharing this news.

 

Connecting the anti-corruption and human rights agendas: challenges and opportunities for Collective Action (Blog).  “While a majority of participating companies identified potential synergies between the human rights agenda and anti-corruption compliance, it was also generally acknowledged that human rights and corruption are two distinct topics. In other words, they should not (and cannot) be completely merged. Rather, they need to be seen as an overarching compliance and risk topic and thus embedded into risk management processes, but also treated discretely when necessary.”

Vanessa Hans/Basel: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2021/10/03/political-funding-act-will-differentiate-political-funds-from-graft  

 

Proactive Integrity Reviews: A Preventive Mechanism Against Corruption (Resource).  “This publication provides a better understanding of how proactive integrity reviews (PIRs) help prevent and detect integrity violation indicators (fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, abuse, conflict of interest, and obstruction).”

Asian Development Bank: https://www.adb.org/publications/proactive-integrity-reviews-mechanism-against-corruption  

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