FAQs

• Stream 1 - Uprooting corruption: Global security demands a global response

  Key Topics: Global governance, peace and security, kleptocracy, conflict/fragile states, international agreements, national commitments, effective implementation

  The Global Challenge: Many governments from around the world have fallen short on their anti-corruption commitments and pledges; poor governance allows autocratic leaders, kleptocratic regimes and organised criminal networks to strengthen their hold on power and the global economy, at the cost of democracy, human rights and global security. What needs to be done to reverse the global wave of kleptocracy, especially where it is being fuelled by corruption? How are corrupt practices contributing to the rise of extremism and incitement to violence? How can we further foster the effective implementation of commitments made through the growing number of global platforms like the Summit for Democracy, the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, the UK Summit, the UN General Assembly Session on Corruption and the Open Government Partnership?

• Workshops under Stream 1

  Rethinking Global Law Enforcement Response to Corruption 
  Coordinated by: Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania (STT)
  Featuring: Transparency International Lithuanian, European Partners against Corruption (EPAC), European contact-point network against corruption (EACN), National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine, EUROPOL and FBI 

  Using the Global Data Barometer to advance political integrity transparency in OGP commitments 
  Coordinated by: Transparency International Secretariat 
  Featuring: Global Data Barometer, Open Government Partnership, Transparencia por Colombia and Transparency International Lithuania

  How to ensure maximum transparency and accountability of the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Ukraine
  Coordinated by: Transparency International Ukraine 
  Featuring: International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Open Contracting Partnership, RISE Ukraine coalition and European Commission 

  Financial Warfare: Are Democracies Ready to Fight? Threats, Defense and Offense 
  Coordinated by: CFCS RUSI Europe 
  Featuring: Financial Times, Blind Spot, Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School, Berlin, Prague Security Studies Institute and Euro SIFMANet 

  Building resilience against foreign covert influence through open government 
  Coordinated by: National Democratic Institute (NDI) 
  Featuring: Transparency International, Baltic Center for Media Excellence and OGP 

  Dirty Tricks and the Gutting of the OECD Convention in Italy Massively Threatens Anti-Corruption Enforcement Across The World 
  Coordinated by: Global Witness 
  Featuring: HEDA Resource Centre, Nigeria, FBI, The Sentry and Basel Institute on Governance

  Lessons from an Insurrection: Corporate Political Giving and Combating Corruption in a Post-January 6th World  
  Coordinated by: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) 
  Featuring: Stetson University, Business for America 

  Political Integrity 2.0: bringing the public interest back into political leadership 
  Coordinated by: OECD 
  Featuring: Public Sector Integrity, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards of the British House of Commons, Transparency International and RepresentUS 

  The Shadow Army Unchecked: Corruption risks of the use of Private Military and Security Companies
  Coordinated by: Transparency International
  Featuring: United Nations, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

  Who gets the Mansion and the Yacht? Innovations in the Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets
  Coordinated by: OSCE

  Mobilizing Youth for Uprooting the Corruption
  Coordinated by: Transparency International

• Stream 2 - Defending the defenders, those who uncover the truth and the victims of corruption and the violations of human rights

  Key Topics: civil society space, restrictions on freedoms of expression and assembly, journalists under threat, impunity on violence against civil society actors, defending the truth, speaking up in difficult environments

  The Global Challenge: The fight against corruption has gained momentum globally. Yet the corrupt are fighting back by clamping down on democratic rights and freedoms, imposing stronger-handed regimes, stepping up surveillance and stoking division and extremism. Today more than ever, those who exercise their right to question the powerful, to demand free and fair elections, to mobilise or speak out against injustice are being silenced by coercive means – sometimes paying with their lives. What strategies and actions can we use to defend people’s rights and freedoms, against all forms of injustice and violence?

• Workshops under Stream 2

  Supporting Whistleblowers and Anti-Corruption Activists through Sanctuary 
  Coordinated by: TRACE 
  Featuring: Georgetown University Law Center, Coalition for Integrity, The Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute, World Bank, The Integrity Fellowship and Sanctuary, The Wasserstrom Group, UN whistleblower, Guatemala Court of Appeals whistleblower, TraCCC at George Mason University, BeJUST, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Toplum TV 

  Putting your Life on the Line: The Frontline of Exposing Corruption 
  Coordinated by: Global Ground Media 
  Featuring: International Journalist, Independent Filmmaker & Journalist and Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network 

  Fear, retaliation and exile from first hand: What happens to officials when corruption in the rule of unlaw? 
  Coordinated by: Argentina' Anticorruption Office (2015-19) 
  Featuring: Journalist, Romanian Judge, Former member of CICIG (Guatemala), Federal Prosecutor Entre Ríos province (Argentina) 

  Whistleblowers Without Borders 
  Coordinated by: National Whistleblower Center 
  Featuring: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Derechos Humanos y Litigio Estratégico Mexicano and López Melih y Estrada

  10 Pathways to empower citizen investigators to stop corruption 
  Coordinated by: SEEK Initiative, Open Contracting Partnership
  Featuring: reAcción (Paraguay), Acción Ciudadana (Guatemala TI chapter), Democracy Plus (Kosovo) and CivicDataLab (India) 

  The United Nations is Failing Whistleblowers – What needs To Change 
  Coordinated by: Transparency International 
  Featuring: Whistleblowing International Network (WIN), UN diplomat, whistleblower, United Nations International Civil Servants Federation (UNICF) and the United Nations Field Staff Union (UNFSU) and Government Accountability Project

  Think Bigger: What the U.S. Can Learn From Democracy Abroad 
  Coordinated by: RepresentUs 
  Featuring: Voto Latino, Universal voting, Political Reform Program, Author, Podcast co-host, Writer and Department of Homeland Security (Trump Administration)  

  Multilateralizing Magnitsky Sanctions: How NGOs Can Advocate for Corruption Sanctions 
  Coordinated by:  Human Rights First 
  Featuring: Human Rights First, Pan American Development Foundation, REDRESS/UK Anti-Corruption Coalition, and Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.

   At your service: How western enablers facilitate global corruption and how to stop it
  Coordinated by: Transparency International UK

• Stream 3 - Building the path towards a fair and sustainable future

  Key Topics: Sustainable development, public funds, emergency responses, COVID Pandemic, social justice, economic justice, health, education, safety, equality, business integrity

  The Global Challenge: Corruption impacts citizens in their everyday life, siphoning resources needed for public goods like infrastructure and health systems, inhibiting small business and economic prospects. In short, corruption erases hopes for equal opportunities and fair future, standing in the way of realising the global aspirations contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This, in turn, makes it all the harder to cope with the unparalleled impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising inequalities. People and communities living in already vulnerable conditions suffer the most. Everyone in our societies – from business leaders to activists to government reformers – has a role to play in advancing greater social justice. What are the major corruption challenges blocking the road for the future we imagined at the beginning of the new millennium? How are citizens driving innovation? Where can grassroots action drive momentum in the global fight? How can we energise existing partnerships to confront corruption as an impediment to pandemic recovery, quality infrastructure, climate progress, etc.?

• Workshops under Stream 3

  Ensuring a sustainable and inclusive recovery: Innovative Anti-Corruption Responses to COVID-19 
  Coordinated by: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  Featuring: ChileCompra, Auditor General South Sudan and Africa Centre for Disease Control 

  Global action on financial integrity to achieve SDGs 
  Coordinated by: UNDP 
  Featuring: FACTI and OECD

  Addressing the gender dimensions of corruption in LAC: Evidence and solution proposals 
  Coordinated by: UNDP 
  Featuring: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, EUROsociAL+ and Chile Transparente 

  Incentivizing integrity in infrastructure: The role of quality investment 
  Coordinated by: OECD 
  Featuring: Bechtel, Macquarie, AECOM and NRGI

  Anti-corruption challenges and opportunities in impact investing 
  Coordinated by: British International Investment plc 
  Featuring: Transparency International Canada, Transparency International UK, 3one4 Capital, Legal – Verod Capital Management and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 

  Beyond Gender Mainstreaming; why we need a feminist approach to fighting corruption. 
  Coordinated by: GIZ 
  Featuring: Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), CISLAC (TI National Chapter in Nigeria), Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) United Nations University - MERIT and YPF

  Measuring Corruption- Strategies to Unmute Women’s Voices
  Coordinated by: UNODC Nigeria 
  Featuring: International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Public Ethics at the Anticorruption and Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina  

  Faith, Religiosity and Petty Corruption in Service Delivery: Insights for Africa and Policy Implications 
  Coordinated by: World Bank and Loyola University New Orleans 
  Featuring: Georgetown University and Berkley Center

  Creative Solutions: How to pass anti-corruption policies in a grid-locked Congress 
  Coordinated by: Declaration for American Democracy Coalition (DFAD) 
  Featuring: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Public Citizen, Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights and League of Conservation Voters

  Transparency International & Partners Launch the Integrity Pact Golden Standard
  Coordinated by: Transparency International Secretariat 

  Managing Corruption Related Risks in Public Spending During Emergencies: Mission (Im)Possible?
  Coordinated by:Transparency International
  Featuring: TI Russia, TI Zimbawe, Transparency International Lithuania and TransparencySchool.org

  Companies calling! Leveraging corporate leadership on beneficial ownership transparency to drive a global standard
  Coordinated by: B Team

• Stream 4 - Overcoming corruption in a race against the climate crisis

  Key Topics: Climate change, climate funds, a greener and carbon-neutral planet, natural resources management, extractive industries, environmental defenders

  The Global Challenge: The climate emergency is the biggest and most urgent challenge our societies are rallying behind, but corruption hampers these efforts. From undue influence of the fossil fuel industry over climate policy development to misspending in climate finance projects, corruption has been undermining the economic and social transformation needed to tackle the climate crisis. What’s worse, corruption continues to enable environmental crimes, and often kills environmental defenders. If we don’t fight corruption, we will never reach the Paris Agreement’s target of keeping the planet's temperature from rising above 1.5°C. How can the international community stop corruption from enabling environmental devastation and derailing climate action?

• Workshops under Stream 4

  Anti-corruption's next frontier in extractive industries: Procurement of goods and services 
  Coordinated by: Mining Shared Value, Engineers Without Borders Canada 
  Featuring: Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption, Results for Development, Natural Resource Governance Institute and International Finance Corporation 

  Climate Crimes and Strategies To Combat them in Latin America and the Caribbean 
  Coordinated by: Costa Rica Íntegra 
  Featuring: Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo de Ecuador, Transparency for Colombia, TI Brazil and International Lawyers Project 

  Why tackling corruption is urgent for a just energy transition 
  Coordinated by: Policy Alert 
  Featuring: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Extractives360, Publish What You Pay and Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI)

  Environmental Corruption: A Call to Action 
  Coordinated by: WWF 
  Featuring: TRAFFIC and USAID Anti-Corruption Task Force

  Corruption in an Era of Climate Change: An Ever-Closing Circle? 
  Coordinated by: Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law 
  Featuring: Civil Rights, United States Department of Justice, International Land Coalition and University of Washington 

  Green but clean – more integrity for stronger climate resilience 
  Coordinated by: Water Integrity Network 
  Featuring: Anti-Corruption Task Force of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S), Green Climate Fund (GCF), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the Water Integrity Network (WIN)

  Environmental crime, corruption and the climate crisis: strengthening anti-corruption frameworks and enforcement measures to protect the environment, the climate and the rights of indigenous peoples and communities 
  Coordinated by: Wildlife Justice Commission 
  Featuring: Transparency International, UNCAC Coalition, Earth League International, Basel Institute for Governance and TI Brazil 

  Ensuring Clean Development in Responding to Emergencies: How the MDBs address corruption risks, empower stakeholders, and work together to strengthen integrity in development projects. 
  Coordinated by: Word Bank

  Fanning the Flames: How corruption is enabling land grabbing and exacerbating the effects of climate change across the Global South
  Coordinated by: Transparency International
  Featuring: International Land Coalition, TI Brazil, TI Zimbabwe and TI Madagascar

  Who’s behind clean energy’s big names? Learning from beneficial ownership transparency in the extractive sector 
  Coordinated by: Open Ownership  
  Featuring: Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),  Dixi Group, Ukraine,  Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), ICIJ member Ghana, Anti-Corruption Commission and Government of Zambia 

  The Role of Anti-Corruption amid the ESG Revolution
  Coordinated by: World Economic Forum
  Featuring: APCO Worldwide, Wilson Center, Transparency International, US District Courts, Novartis, SNC-Lavalin and Harvard Kennedy School

  Getting Serious about Grand Corruption: How to Scale Up Enforcement
  Coordinated by: Transparency International

• Stream 5 - Ending dark markets, criminal networks and cross border crimes

  Key Topics: trafficking, cross border corruption, organised crime, criminal networks, environmental crimes, endangered species, freeports, illicit trade, law enforcement, sanctions, international agreements, and cooperation

  The Global Challenge: The global demand for scarce, endangered, or forbidden goods and services, which often are acquired through trafficking, is steadily on the rise. Fuelled by corruption, the profits often are dirty and blood money. Criminal networks are the first to profit from this demand by creating dark markets and exploiting everything from human beings and endangered species to drugs and arms, from counterfeit merchandise or rare antiquities to precious natural resources.

  Trafficking is a devastating business that knows no territorial boundaries. But people living in vulnerable conditions, weak states, and particularly in resource-rich yet fragile environments, are the first to suffer the harm inflicted by criminal networks, including death, while the consequences are often global. What is holding back law enforcement, how are criminal networks innovating and where are today’s most critical hotspots? What are institutions around the world doing to fight back?

• Workshops under Stream 5

  Taking What We Have And Doing It Better: Without Passing A Single New Law, What Could the US do Better to Tackle Money Laundering in the Americas? 
  Coordinated by: Anti-Corruption Data Collective 
  Featuring: International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), Proetica, TI Ukraine, Transparencia Venezuela and Texas Observer 

  Knowledge is Power: the case for human rights due diligence to tackle corruption and human rights abuses in global supply chains 
  Coordinated by: The B Team 
  Featuring: UN, Unilever and CDP Worldwide (Formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) 

  Customs as a leading example of institution-specific responses to corruption. 
  Coordinated by: World Customs Organization Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) 
  Featuring: Customs administrations of Canada, US, Malawi and Jamaica

  Mafiocracy: State capture by organized crime 
  Coordinated by: Tecnologico de Monterrey 
  Featuring: Georgetown University, TraCCC (Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center) George Mason University, World Peace Foundation, Harvard Kennedy School Program on Intrastate Conflict and representant colombian government 

  Using Follow-the-Money techniques to detect Environmental Crimes: Potential and Challenges 
  Coordinated by: Basel Institute on Governance 
  Featuring: TRAFFIC, WWF, TraCCC (Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center) George Mason University and US Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior

  Following the trail of dirty money and corruption: Exposing the finances and actors behind environmental crimes 
  Coordinated by: GIZ 
  Featuring: Global Witness, Kenya Wildlife Service, Environmental Investigation Agency and a investigative journalist

  How to Engage the Finance Industry in the Fight against Cross-Border Corruption: Tackling Money Laundering in the Wildlife Crime Setting 
  Coordinated by: TRAFFIC 
  Featuring: Financial Intelligence Centre, HSBC and Luno  

  Looted Antiquities and Conflict Financing: Fighting Corruption through Strategic Litigation 
  Coordinated by: The Docket, Clooney Foundation for Justice 
  Featuring: Arctic Wind and Loughnane Associates 

  The Anti-Corruption Authors - And All That Is Fit To Print Very Bad People, Enablers, Dark Commerce, Investigators, State Capture
  Coordinated by: Frank Vogl
  Featuring: Patrick Alley, Elise Bean, Louise Shelley, Liz David-Barrett

  Corruption and impunity in God's name: How to tackle trafficking, money laundering, dark money, and much more in religious organizations
  Coordinated by: University of Maryland

• Stream 6 - Fighting Greed, kleptocracy, oligarchs, money laundering and their enablers

  Key Topics: Illicit finance, beneficial ownership transparency, secrecy jurisdictions, crypto currencies, foreign bribery, asset recovery & repatriation, legal loopholes, grand corruption, beneficial ownership transparency, international cooperation

  The Global Challenge: Greed drives the insatiable, and often corrupt, pursuit of wealth, money and power. The enablers are specialists that willingly engage in corrupt practices to ensure the impunity of kleptocrats and oligarchs. Accountants, bankers, real estate agents, luxury goods brokers - to name a few, are often implicated in complex schemes to obscure ill - gotten fortunes.

  After years of self-sabotage, the game-changing Panama Papers and subsequent revelations, and the increasing threats to national security have prompted several countries to take real steps to curb the flow of dirty and blood money, though much more is to be done. Where have we successfully exposed and prosecuted complicit enablers? How do we ensure the adoption of international best practices in these sectors? How are countries cooperating to crack down on money laundering? How can the industries and businesses partner in developing safeguards to prevent law breaking enablers?

• Workshops under Stream 6

  Signatures for sale: a look inside the corporate secrecy industry 
  Coordinated by: Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, UNODC-World Bank 
  Featuring: University of Cambridge / University of Texas, Finance Uncovered and Transparency International Canada 

  How to Investigate Violent Kleptocracies 
  Coordinated by: The Sentry

  Towards a more just and equal world: Why we need the Global Asset Register and why we need it yesterday 
  Coordinated by: Transparency International Secretariat 
  Featuring: University of California at Berkeley,  European Tax observatory, Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), AU/UNECA High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows , UN High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity and Tax Justice Network 

  Beyond Authoritarianism and the Oligarchs: Kleptocracy in Fledgling Democracies 
  Coordinated by: International Republican Institute (IRI) 
  Featuring: Center for Investigative Reporting, Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), Association for a More Just Society and Maldives Anti-Corruption Commission 

  Putting the Pieces Together – Collaborating to Tackle Violent Kleptocracies 
  Coordinated by: The Sentry 
  Featuring: Department of State US, Anti-Money Laundering at Coinbase and Citi 

  Winning the kleptocratic war: How can international cooperation and development cooperation support the fight against kleptocrats and oligarchs 
  Coordinated by: GIZ 
  Featuring: Global Witness, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Recovery Interagency Network 

  Starving the Kleptocratic Kremlin to rebuild Ukraine: Asset Recovery Developments Since the Start of the War in Ukraine
  Coordinated by: Transparency International Ukraine 
  Featuring: Basel Institute, International Centre for Asset Recovery, Central and Eastern Europe, Asset Recovery and Management Agency of Ukraine (ARMA), United States Department of Justice and European Commission  

  Gatekeepers or Enablers? The Role of Professionals in the Fight Against Illicit Financial Flows 
  Coordinated by: International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)
  Featuring: Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) World Economic Forum, International Bar Association (IBA), RICS and Paul Hastings

  Implementing the Common African Position on Asset Recovery and Return 
  Coordinated by: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa 
  Featuring: Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), African Legal Support Facility (ALSF), Emory University and Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA) 

  Shadow Campaigns: How Straw Donors and Dark Money Groups Can Hide Corruption in Elections 
  Coordinated by: Campaign Legal Center (CLC) 
  Featuring: Common Cause, Venable LLP, Corporate and Nonprofit Political Contributions from a Private Practitioner's Perspective 

  How Do Corporate Investors Address Markets’ Corruption Risk? 
  Coordinated by: CIPE

  From scandal to legal response: how civil society can help turning revelations into legal action 
  Coordinated by: Transparency International 
  Featuring: Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF), US Department of Justice and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

  Beneficial Ownership: Where do We Go from Here?
  Coordinated by: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
  Featuring: International Studies at Cambridge, Tax Justice Network and GAFILAT 

  Trading in corruption: Lessons learned and next steps for fighting corruption and illicit financial flows in the billion-dollar commodity trading industry
  Coordinated by: OECD
  Featuring: Energy and Commodities, Bloomberg, Ghana National Petroleum Co-operation, Glencore, Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative

• Stream 7 - Focus Track: The future of the fight against corruption

  Technology has the power to change the way we live, for good or for bad. It changes the way we interact with others, access information for decision making and solve problems that otherwise could continue to affect people. It also has the power to create previously unimagined tools and services. How is the anticorruption movement adapting to our tech fuelled fast changing world? Are we able to incorporate technology constant innovations to better fight corruption? Are we ready to respond when technology is used against societies? What else needs to be done to maximise the benefits that technology offers?

• Workshops under Stream 7

  Using tech and data in anti-corruption interventions: Moving from innovation to buy-in 
  Coordinated by: Accountability Lab 
  Featuring: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and Google 

  The future of anti-corruption: data system best practices 
  Coordinated by: Anti-Corruption Data Collective 
  Featuring: Special Inspector General for Pandemic Response, FinRegLab and George Washington University 

  What’s next for Tech for Integrity – Emerging Opportunities, Persisting Challenges and Potential Risks 
  Coordinated by: World Economic Forum, andTrinity Business School 
  Featuring: Infosys, ComplyAdvantage and OECD 

  How can data support collective action against corruption? 
  Coordinated by: Maritime Anti Corruption Network 
  Featuring: Basel Institute on Governance Convention on Business Integrity and FedNAV

  TECH: What is good for engaging the Youth, Society's Harbingers of Change Warding off Corruption 
  Coordinated by: Ghana Integrity Initiative (Transparency International Ghana) 
  Featuring: Integrity Fiji, Transparency International Cambodia and UNODC 

  Power of technology and innovation to fight corruption 
  Coordinated by: UNDP  
  Featuring: INL 

  Web3BOT: Building Digital Assets to Actualize the Vision of Beneficial Ownership Transparency to Counter Corruption on  the Path to A Sustainable Future 
  Coordinated by: The Digital Economist 
  Featuring: MIT Connection Science, OpenOwnership and Microsoft 

  Anti-Corruption Reset:  Beyond Siloes to Shifting Power, Civil Society Collaboration and Localised Donor Support
  Coordinated by: TraCCC (Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center) George Mason University 
  Featuring: Human Rights Watch, Accountability Lab and Obama Foundation

  From Detection to Deterrence: Unleashing the Potential of AI in Anticorruption 
  Coordinated by: World Bank