• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Cracking Open Capture: Turning Political Windows into Lasting Change

  State capture thrives where civic space shrinks and democratic institutions weaken. Yet moments of political opening create rare opportunities for reform. This interactive workshop brings together researchers, reformers, journalists, international organisations and civil society leaders to explore how civic resistance can evolve into durable institutional change, and how reform coalitions can withstand backlash once the window opens. Participants will co-create the Punta Cana Principles on Countering State Capture.

  Coordinated by Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S)

  Featuring Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S), Transparency International - Russia (in exile), Open Government Partnership (OGP), Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), University of Sussex, Transparency International - Romania and Transparency International - Czech Republic

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Repair the Corruption Damage Now!

  Accountability for corruption must ensure redress for those harmed. While international, regional, and some national frameworks recognise this right, barriers still deny many victims an effective remedy. This session examines ways to increase good practices, address the human rights impacts of corruption and expand civil society organisations’ key role in representing affected communities.

  Coordinated by Transparency International

  Featuring UNCAC, FIDH, Proetica (Transparency International - Peru),Transparency International and PPLAAF

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Targeted Responses: A Sectoral Approach to Beneficial Ownership Transparency

  Illicit activity thrives in the shadows, but its consequences emerge in full light. As dirty money races across borders, criminals are quick to exploit any gaps in countries’ defenses. The workshop will discuss the use of sectoral approaches to beneficial ownership transparency as a pragmatic and impactful targeted response to tackle criminals in high-risk sectors, such as real estate, extractives

  Coordinated by International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Featuring Tax Justice Network, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Beneficial ownership Transparency, Publish What You Pay Canada

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  Reclaiming the Tech Innovation Race: AI and the New Architecture of Democratic Integrity

  This session examines how responsible AI, network intelligence, and digital traceability can strengthen institutions against transnational corruption. Cases from Latin America and Europe show how cross-sector collaboration can accelerate responsible adoption of civic technologies through cross-border cooperation and democratic safeguards.

  Coordinated by SciVortex

  Featuring SciVortex, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), UNCAC, El PACCTO 2.0, Government Transparency Institute and Transparency International Venezuela

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  Panel Tech and Conflict

  In this panel, investigative reporters will share techniques, challenges and regional perspectives on how to investigate the uses of technology in conflicts. Speakers will deep dive on how powerful investigations are conducted, highlighting different methodologies and examples. We will feature speakers from organizations such as Airwars, Bellingcat or +972 Magazine (Israel/Palestine), and potentially investigative reporters covering conflict in Iran or Ukraine.

  Coordinated by Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  How collaborations between creatives, civil society and journalists can work towards AI accountability

  The dialogue/panel will put forth how the power of campaigning and journalistic work can bring down one of the most notorious bad guys in the tech accountability space: Palantir. The panel will dissect how effective strategies around campaigning on Palantir in the UK and the US has led to a more widespread understanding about the company and the devastating harms it perpetuates in specific contexts. It will explore the shady workings of the company, lobbying efforts and Palantir’s business model when it comes to striking deals not just within the Global North space but also in other regions in Latin America as the world witnesses a rise in techno-authoritarianism.

  Coordinated by Amnesty Tech

  Featuring Amnesty International and Transparency International

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Combat Corruption in Government

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential to detect, prevent, and mitigate corruption risks through predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and real-time monitoring. However, deploying AI in the public sector raises critical questions about ethics, transparency, data governance, and capacity building.

  Coordinated by Mastercard

  Featuring Mastercard, 221B Partners, Santander Private Banking International and Kimberly Clark

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  From hype to impact: Harnessing AI for integrity

  AI is increasingly used to strengthen integrity and fight corruption, but its practical applications are not comprehensively explored. This workshop explores real-world AI tools, their risks and safeguards, and how to move from “hype” to impact. It will launch a UNDP compendium, showcase three global use cases, and foster open dialogue to share lessons and scale responsible solutions.

  Coordinated by UNDP

  Featuring UNDP, Office of State Comptroller (CGU) Brazil and Government of Qatar

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  Crypto and Illicit Finance: What’s Breaking Down, What’s Working, and the Path Forward

  Cryptocurrency is no longer a niche innovation issue. It’s now a central battleground for money laundering, sanctions evasion, corruption, and political influence, with regulatory choices in individual countries shaping outcomes globally. The challenge now is not simply identifying risks, but moving from fragmented, reactive responses toward durable policy solutions that can keep pace with how crypto markets operate in practice. This panel focuses on what we have learned so far about where crypto governance is failing, where it is starting to work, and what the next phase of reform must look like if governments are serious about protecting financial integrity and democratic systems. Drawing on experiences from the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Russia, the discussion will move beyond problem-spotting to examine concrete policy tools, enforcement strategies, and coalition opportunities that can counter the growing misuse of crypto for illicit finance and political influence. Rather than rehashing hype or first-order debates, the panel will zero in on practical pathways forward: how anti-money laundering coverage can be adequately extended to crypto intermediaries and stablecoins; how sanctions enforcement and cross-border cooperation can be strengthened; how political finance and corruption risks tied to crypto can be addressed; and where alliances among governments, regulators, and civil society can realistically slow the wave of illicit crypto activity. The goal is to leave participants with a clearer sense of what reforms are achievable now, where pressure points exist, and how international coordination can move from rhetoric to results.

  Coordinated by Transparency International - Russia (in exile)

  Featuring Transparency International - Russia (in exile), Transparency International - US, Chainalysis, CipherBlade, Former Director for Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation, U.S. National Security Council and Caribbean Financial Action Task Force

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  Investigating Big Tech’s Environmental Impact

  IACC COLPIN SESSION

  In this panel co-hosted by the Repórter Brasil, The Intercept Brasil, R3D and Pulitzer Center, panelists facilitate a conversation into better ways of working together to combat the opacity around Big Tech infrastructure. Journalists will speak about the lack of transparency & corruption in the data center industry and a human rights lawyer will share what evidence is needed to make an impact.

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Repórter Brasil, The Intercept Brazil, R3D (Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales)

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  From Protest to Power

  Panel participants will examine how governments and public institutions have responded to youth-led accountability movements, assessing why some movements have resulted in legislative reforms, strengthened oversight, constitutional reforms, government transitions, and greater institutional accountability, while others have been met with cooption, symbolic concessions, civic space restrictions, or repression. The discussion will examine the degree to which reforms are genuine versus token measures and how governments have attempted to counter youth-led accountability movements. Institutional methods of cooption, deflection, and absorption will be discussed alongside repressive measures, such as censorship, surveillance, and the criminalization of dissent. The panel will also explore how the acephalous nature of many youth-led movements has shaped government responses. Lessons learned from countries where youth mobilization has influenced public policy, parliamentary representation, constitutional reforms, government transitions, and accountability will be highlighted.

  Coordinated by School of International Service The American University

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  Youth as Anti-Corruption Disruptors: The New Accountability Generation

  Panel participants will examine why and how youth-led accountability movements are emerging simultaneously across diverse political, economic, and social contexts. The discussion will explore how technology is enabling ideas, tactics, and symbols to spread across borders, and how innovative forms of nonviolent resistance—including satire, tactical whimsy, meme culture, and digital organizing strategies—are fostering decentralized, acephalous youth accountability movements that challenge corruption, democratic backsliding, and declining public trust. In turn, these approaches are expanding civic participation, reshaping public discourse, strengthening transnational solidarity, and advancing public accountability. Illustrative examples will include India's Cockroach Janta Party, Nepal's One Piece pirate flag protests, Kenya's WanTam movement, and Morocco's GenZ 212.

  Coordinated by School of International Service The American University

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  From Exclusion to Action: Empowering Youth to Combat Corruption and Discrimination in Education and Health Services

  Putting forward youth-led solutions to corruption challenges impeding inclusive access to education and health services, the workshop seeks to:

  • Highlight the gendered and discriminatory impact of corruption on access to education and health services, especially for marginalised groups;
  • Share youth-led initiatives aimed at promoting transparency and accountability in public services.

  Coordinated by Transparency International

  Featuring Besa Global, TI Global Health Programme, YouthKommunity.org, Education Specialist and Activist, UNDP and ASJ (TI Honduras)

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  Niñas y jóvenes construyendo democracias libres de corrupción

  Strengthen the understanding and action of anti-corruption actors, the business sector, and civil society regarding the strategic role of girls’ and young women’s leadership, through a gender-responsive approach, in fostering cultures of integrity from an early age that contribute to more transparent and resilient democratic and economic systems.

  Coordinated by Centro de Investigación para la Acción Femenina

  Featuring Centro de Investigación para la Acción Femenina

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  Integrity by Design: Re-Engineering Youth Programs to Prevent Corruption Before It Starts.

  In many African countries, youth programs are weakened by corruption, nepotism and weak institutions. High unemployment and poverty put pressure on limited opportunities, making favoritism more likely. This panel will explore how to redesign youth programs to be inclusive, transparent and youth-centred, while embedding integrity safeguards that respond to real youth needs. Aims and Objectives To examine how youth programs across Africa can be structurally redesigned to prevent capture by favoritism and political influence, and to equip participants with practical, replicable integrity tools that embed prevention into program design from the outset.

  Coordinated by MUN Impact Nigeria

  Featuring MUN Impact Nigeria, CONIG UNODC, Accountability Lab Liberia, Nigerian Youth Parliament, ZimBit Solutions and Kenya Ethics Ambassadors Network (EAN-K)

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  From Values to Value: Measuring Integrity and Compliance Culture in Practice

  Companies invest heavily in anti-corruption ethics and compliance programmes, yet many struggle to assess whether they are embedded in daily decisions and culture. This workshop explores practical ways to measure integrity and compliance culture, drawing on business, public sector and international experience to generate actionable insights.

  Coordinated by UN Global Compact

  Featuring UNGC, Transparency International, Transparency International Germany, Genneia, Deutsche Bank, and FCC Construction

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  From Stories to Action: Can Young Creators Hold Power Accountable?

  IACC COLPIN SESSION

  This panel explores how young content creators are transforming investigative journalism into powerful tools for civic engagement and accountability across Latin America and Africa. Drawing on the Pulitzer Center full model, it will showcase how creators collaborate with journalists to translate complex investigations into compelling stories that reach new audiences and spark dialogue, participation, and action. Featuring perspectives from youth movements, content creation specialists, and the Pulitzer Center’s engagement team, the discussion will explore how these collaborations can connect communities with decision-makers, amplify underrepresented voices, and move journalism beyond the headlines—from stories to dialogue, and from dialogue to action.

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Waki Ambienta and Africa Ecological Transition Cluster

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  SMEs at the Sharp End: Integrity Risks, Power Asymmetries, and Practical Solutions

  SMEs face some of the highest corruption risks, especially in procurement and contracting, yet have the least power to push back. Evolving EU rules such as CSRD/CSDDD offer relief on paper, but market pressure across supply chains and from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and financiers often continues, extending well beyond the EU. This workshop explores practical ways to ease burden for SMEs while strengthening business integrity.

  Coordinated by Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S)

  Featuring Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S), Siemens, British International Investment (BII), CADIEM, OECD, Ministry of the Presidency (Spain), Poder Ciudadano (TI Argentina), UN Global Compact (UNGC) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  Who owns it? How corporate ownership information can drive business integrity

  How can beneficial ownership data strengthen business integrity and attract responsible investment? Leaders from high-value sectors from infrastructure to natural resources, will share practical experience embedding ownership transparency. Participants will co-develop approaches to help business, government and civil society use ownership data to detect illicit finance and strengthen competition.

  Coordinated by CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

  Featuring CoST - Infrastructure Transparency Initiative, Open Ownership, Mayor of San Miguelito (Panama city), Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative, (EITI), African Development Bank and Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrolllo (TI Ecuador)

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Exposing and Removing the Barriers to Protecting our Oceans

  Ocean governance is fragmented, opaque, and susceptible to corruption. In this workshop, we discuss specific governance issues that enable slave labor, illegal fishing, and trafficking such as flags of convenience, regulatory gaps, and conflict of interest. Together with the audience, we try to think of solutions and consider the role of the High Seas BBNJ treaty, which came into force this year.

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Revista Anfibia, The Globe & Mail and freelance Journalist

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Climate Governance Under the Spotlight: Integrity Lessons from COP31

  Ahead of COP31 in Turkiye, this workshop will examine corruption risks in climate governance, from green finance and carbon markets to public procurement and host-country accountability. Using COP31 as a case study, participants will identify integrity gaps and develop safeguards to strengthen transparency, accountability, and trust in global climate action.

  Coordinated by Transparency International Turkiye

  Featuring Transparency International Turkiye, Transparency International Australia and Transparency International Secretariat

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Toxic Profits: Corruption and Environmental Crime in Southeast Asia

  Corruption fuels environmental crime across Southeast Asia—from waste trafficking to harmful infrastructure projects. This session explores how stronger transparency, investigative journalism and accountability can disrupt these networks and protect people, natural resources and the environment.

  Coordinated by The Center to Combat Corruption Cronyism

  Featuring Southeast Asian Anti-Corruption Network of CSOs (SEA-CAN), Rappler, Journalists Against Corruption (JAC), TEMPO Indonesia, Human Rights, Democracy & Rule of Law, Embassy of Sweden, Bangkok

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Security Guarantees, Resource Contracts, and Corruption

  As part of its transactional foreign policy, the Trump Administration is requiring states to provide access to natural resources to the US government and/or elites linked to the Trump Administration. This panel will highlight the corruption concerns of four case studies of the nexus of security guarantees and natural resource contracts plus policy recommendations for business and civil society.

  Coordinated by Georgetown University

  Featuring Georgetown. University, Transparency International-US, Velta Holding US, Inc, The Sentry, Human Rights Foundation

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Building Trusted Carbon Markets – Views from Anti-Corruption Leaders, Standard Setter, and Accreditation Body

  As carbon markets become central to meeting 2030 climate and Paris Agreement goals, their success hinges on market participants acting with ethics and integrity. Practical tools for transparency and accountability that are critical to their success will be discussed. Panelists include experts from a standard-setter, anti‑corruption organizations, and an accreditation body.

  Coordinated by Verra

  Featuring Basel Institute on Governance, Transparency International, Transparency International Indonesia, Verra and American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Real-World Integrity Solutions for SIDS: Experiences from climate and disaster operations

  Practical tools to curb corruption in climate finance and disaster response in SIDS. Case studies will be provided to explore the different approaches used in different jurisdictions and lessons learnt from them to frame stronger safeguards in these climate and disaster operational locations. These will also be discussed in light of International laws and regulations that have set the standards of good practices and expectations which should be implemented domestically in SIDS.

  Coordinated by Wildlife Justice Commission

  Featuring UNODC, GOPAC, Palau Island Times, Pacific Anti-Corruption Journalists Network, CARICOM Youth Ambassador (Trinidad & Tobago), Transparency International Secretariar and High Court of Solomon Islands

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Corruption in the Shadows; Environmental Crime in Plain Sight

  One of the less understood aspects of corruption is its effect on the environment and people whose lives rely upon the promise of the earth. Whether corporate, government or mercenaries wreaking havoc, the environment is the ultimate victim of corruption, occurring in every corner of the world. This workshop illustrates the effects through case studies and introduce tools and solutions.

  Coordinated by The Sentry

  Featuring The Sentry, UNODC, Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Latin America Bureau, Mongabay

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Nature, Money, Conflict: How to Disrupt the Financial Drivers of Environmental Crime and Insecurity

  We explore how corruption-enabled environmental crime and illicit finance erodes governance and stability. We unpack why environmental crime & corruption remain deprioritised and examine the financial system’s role in both enabling harm and driving solutions; we highlight partnerships and innovations that are elevating the prioritisation of environmental crime and corruption.

  Coordinated by WWF International

  Featuring WWF International, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Basel Institute on Governance and FACT Coalition

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Promoting Integrity for People and Planet One Sector at a Time

  Jointly organized by UNDP and the World Bank, the workshop's overall aim is to present data and expertise, and enable discussion, on the added value of sector-specific integrity strategies that mix investigative and preventive approaches and match them with the incentive structures and opportunities to commit corruption that exist in the environment and energy sectors.

  Coordinated by UNDP Arab States

  Featuring World Bank, UNDP, Federal Commission of Integrity (Iraq) and Independent Expert, Energy Governance

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Green Rush, Old Corruption? Governing Critical Minerals in an Era of Geopolitical Competition

  As demand for critical minerals surges, geopolitical competition is reshaping governance in resource-rich states. Without robust safeguards, the green transition risks deepening political corruption and state capture. This session explores how investigative evidence, transparency standards and governance diagnostics can address corruption risks in mineral-rich countries.

  Coordinated by Resource Justice Network

  Featuring Resource Justice Network, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), IMF and Resource Matters

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Africa Mining Watch: Powering Investigative Journalism with AI

  IACC COLPIN SESSION

  A partnership between journalists and civic tech developers is driving a unique initiative to shed light on the energy transition and the mining of strategic minerals. Launched in July 2026, the Africa Mining Watch platform uses artificial intelligence to map open-pit mines across the continent’s tropical belt. In this session, we’ll show how this technology is being adopted by investigative journalists and how it can be adapted by other stakeholders, such as NGOs and governments. Also, we will show how the technology was adapted from previous experiences in Latin America and how it can be used in other geographies

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Rainforest and InfoNile and Investigative journalist specializing in environmental issues and wildlife crime

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  Profiting from Destruction: Data Tools Exposing Environmental Crime and Public Contracts

  IACC COLPIN SESSION

  Across Latin America and beyond, companies fined for deforestation and illegal mining continue winning government contracts. This workshop unites four civil society tools to break that cycle: CruzaGrafos maps corporate networks behind offenders, Sociedad.info tracks procurement across 54 countries, TI Brazil reveals how governments hide critical data, and DOZORRO shows how AI can flag risky tender

  Coordinated by Abraji (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism)

  Featuring Abraji (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism), Transparency International - Brazil, Abrimos.info, Sociedad.info and Transparency International Ukraine

• Integrity for People and Planet Regeneration: Fighting the Theft of Our Future
  

  How Mining and Organized Crime are Transforming the Amazon’s Social, Political, and Environmental Landscape?

  IACC COLPIN SESSION

  Illegal mining and organized crime are reshaping the Amazon in ways that extend far beyond environmental destruction. Their growing convergence undermines governance, fuels corruption, and profoundly affects the daily lives of local communities. This panel will examine how illegal mining and organized crime have become intertwined, transforming the Amazon's social, political, and environmental landscape. It will also discuss law enforcement and people’s resistance in the Amazon

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Amazon underworld, Forum Brasileiro de Seguranca Publica and Universidade Federal de Roraima and Federal Prosecution Service (MPF), Brazil

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Glue, Grit and Guiding Integrity: Institutionalising Anti-Corruption Efforts in Reconstruction.

  Reconstruction is about rebuilding trust as much as infrastructure - under urgency, political pressure, and high financial stakes. It is a pivotal phase shaping institutional incentives, accountability structures, and long-term governance. This session explores how to institutionalise context-sensitive integrity efforts from the start to make reconstruction more corruption resistant.

  Coordinated by Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

  Featuring GIZ, BMZ DANIDA, UNODC and Transparency International Lebanon

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Building effective pathways to redress for victim-survivors of sexual corruption

  This workshop looks at the development and implementation of responses and redress pathways for victim-survivors of sexual corruption. It links research, civil society advocacy, and institutional transformation to showcase concrete responses to sexual corruption and explore how shifts in social norms and institutional practices can advance victim-survivor-centred redress. Its objective is to identify effective models of victim-survivor protection and redress for future network building and collaborative advocacy.

  Coordinated by Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S)

  Featuring SIDA (Swedish Development Agency), UNODC, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Verité Research and Brazilian Parliament

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Naming the Unnamed: Defining, Documenting, and Measuring Sexual Corruption to Reduce Impunity

  What do we know about sexual corruption, its prevalence, its drivers, and the victims and perpetrators involved? Surprisingly little. Sexual corruption is one of the most under-documented forms of corruption worldwide, and until recently it did not even have a name of its own. That absence of language has been part of the problem: without a shared definition, the phenomenon gets folded into broader corruption or gender-based violence frameworks, and the specific dynamic at its core, the trading of power for sexual access, gets lost. Debates around terms like sexual corruption versus sextortion are not just semantic. They shape whether the focus stays on the abuse of power itself. Definitional gaps feed directly into data gaps. The absence of sexual corruption from official statistics is too often mistaken for the absence of the phenomenon, when in fact it reflects stigma, fear, and the structural barriers that keep victims from reporting. Without data, there is no evidence base. Without evidence, there is no policy

  Coordinated by Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S)

  Featuring Transparency International, UU RESC (Uppsala University Research Environment on Sexual Corruption), Fundación Poder Ciudadano (TI Argentina), Data Against Feminicide, Independent Commission for Human Rights in Ramallah (Palestine), Fletcher School, Tufts University and Besa Global

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  10 years after the Panama Papers: Defending Ownership Transparency and Following the Money Across Borders

  Corruption rarely stops at national borders - and neither do stolen assets. Beneficial ownership transparency is central to tracing stolen assets, recovering the proceeds of corruption and tackling illicit finance. Yet, ten years after the Panama Papers exposed the opaque ownership structures facilitating global financial crime, progress remains uneven. While many countries have established beneficial ownership registers, access to and usability of this data varies considerably. In this panel debate, speakers will reflect on fresh cross-country findings on the availability, quality, and use of ownership information across jurisdictions. Drawing on practical case studies, they will examine how robust beneficial ownership data supports a wide range of public-interest objectives, including corporate due diligence and market integrity, effective public procurement, and anti-money laundering enforcement. Particular attention will be given to the role of public-interest actors - including investigative journalists, civil society organisations and researchers. Speakers will reflect on emerging good practices, opportunities for cross-border corruption, and the policy priorities required to ensure ownership transparency delivers on its promise as a tool for combatting corruption and illicit finance.

  Coordinated by Transparency International

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  From Public Funds to Private Capital: How to Follow the Amazon’s Money Trail

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Folha de São Paulo, O Joio e o Trigo and University of São Paulo

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Closed Regimes, Dirty Deals: Leveraging Transnational Accountability Tools Against Kleptocracy

  This workshop will center on three illicit supply chains: 1) gold 2) talc and 3) online scam centers known as “pig butchering”. It will focus on the innovative evidence collection approaches and transnational accountability mechanisms used by CSOs to disrupt the supply chains and put international pressure on the autocratic regimes.

  Coordinated by National Democratic Institute (NDI)

  Featuring National Democratic Institute (NDI), Lex Collective, Institute for Strategy and Policy - Myanmar, Transparencia Venezuela and Resilient Societies - Afghanistan

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Who Watches the Gatekeepers? Raising the Bar on Supervision

  How do we stop high-risk gatekeeper services from undermining anti-corruption efforts? Supervision remains the weak link – with self-policing, fragmentation and too few consequences when professionals enable dirty money. This panel takes stock of emerging consensus after the UK Illicit Finance Summit, presents fresh cross-country findings and maps the next steps for stronger global standards.

  Coordinated by Transparency International

  Featuring Transparency International, Financial Action Task Force and Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Financial Action Task Force

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Shadow Alliances: Authoritarian Influence and Organized Crime in Latin America

  Latin America faces rising economic strain and geopolitical rivalry as authoritarian powers expand through hybrid strategies merging statecraft and crime. Russia, China, and Iran use corruption, illicit finance, sanctions evasion, and transnational crime to pursue strategic aims. The event introduces “Shadow Fusion,” the link between organised crime and foreign influence, and shifts from reactive enforcement to system-level disruption: mapping crime–state ties, securing key infrastructure, and targeting offshore enablers. It shares findings from applying CSD’s State Capture Assessment Diagnostic (SCAD) & Kremlin Playbook methods in Latin America, exposing how elites and foreign actors exploit extractive rents, politicised rules, and state firms to entrench influence and weaken security.

  Coordinated by Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD)

  Featuring Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, IBI Consultants, National Defense University's Center for Complex Operations andFlorida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute of Public Policy

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Igniting Integrity Against Criminal Capture: Data to Disrupt Corrupt Networks

  Coordinated by The World Bank Group

  Featuring Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Transcrime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption (FEMCC), Mexico and University Of Birmingham

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  When governments and oligarchs are after you: How to protect your staff from legal bullying

  The session will equip participants with practical skills to leverage innovative legal strategies against SLAPP suits, defamation claims, foreign agent laws, and other tactics hampering anti-corruption work. The session will also highlight best practices for whistleblowers in the face of legal threats and provide guidance where media exposure can trigger investigative or reputational risks.

  Coordinated by International Lawyers Project

  Featuring International Lawyers Project and Ropes & Gray

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  What Kind of Democracy are We Talking about When We Talk about Democracy in the Americas Today?

  The panel aims to analyze the current state of democracy in the Americas through a comparative exchange among specialists from different countries, in order to identify regional trends, common patterns, and national particularities. It will examine how democratic institutions are functioning today, their main strengths and weaknesses, and how factors such as corruption, lack of public integrity, erosion of institutional checks and balances, and citizen distrust are affecting their performance. Particular attention will be given to the situations in Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and the Northern Triangle of Central America, where democratic institutions have come under increasing strain in recent years. These cases will serve as focal points for exploring broader regional dynamics, illustrating both shared challenges and country-specific developments. The dialogue will also seek to recognize emerging risks, evaluate institutional and social responses to these challenges, and place each country's recent trajectory within a shared regional framework. The panel's participatory format will also allow for questions and reflections from the audience, enriching the analysis with diverse perspectives. The panel is expected to generate a comparative and up-to-date analysis of the state of democracy in the region, identifying both worrying trends and resilient or innovative experiences. The exchange will seek to identify the main challenges facing democratic systems in the Americas, especially regarding institutional governance, public integrity, and the fight against corruption, while also highlighting lessons learned and potential courses of action. Furthermore, the discussion aims to strengthen regional dialogue, generating useful analytical input for future cooperation initiatives. This conversation also builds on and follows up on discussions developed during previous regional meetings of the International Anti-Corruption Conference in the Americas (Bogotá 2024), ensuring continuity and contributing substantive input to ongoing and future regional exchanges.

  Coordinated by Poder Ciudadano (TI-Argentina)

  Featuring Transparencia por Colombia (TI-Colombia), Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo (TI-Ecuador), Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa (TI-Honduras), Venezuela Transparente (TI-Venezuela), Proetica (TI-Peru) and Transparency Iternational Secreatariat (TI-S)

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  After the U.S. Mid-Term Elections, What’s Next?

  Under single party leadership in 2025, the world’s largest economy and military power have wreaked havoc on anticorruption progress, including the undermining of checks on dirty money, withdrawal from multilateral anticorruption platforms, gross misuse of sanctions, and the normalization of corruption as common practice. Will the U.S. election provide new opportunity to counter executive actions?

  Coordinated by Transparency International - US (TI US)

  Featuring The Atlantic, Transparency International - US (TI US), U.S. Senator, Former member of the U.S. Congress

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Who Benefits from Opaque Debt?

  As democratic backsliding deepens, limited transparency and accountability in debt fuels misuse and corruption. Autocratic regimes divert loans for patronage and personal enrichment, jeopardising future generations TI, IMF, Denmark, NDI, WFD and EURODAD will explore reforms to IFIs, to lending and borrowing, and offer practical recommendations to strengthen anticorruption safeguards in debt

  Coordinated by Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S)

  Featuring National Democratic Institute (NDI), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (DANIDA) and Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S) and African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Defending Democracy: Integrity and International Cooperation as a Shield Against Illicit Power

  Latin America has become a key laboratory for the global tensions that threaten democracy today: concentration of power, setbacks in the rule of law, institutional capture, and systematic use of illicit financing to erode freedoms and weaken public trust. In this scenario, the boundaries between legal and illegal are blurred, while authoritarian actors and corrupt networks take advantage of institutional gaps and democratic fragility. Drawing on the experience of its regional and national projects, this session offers a strategic perspective on how integrity, understood as a principle, practice, and collective action, can serve as a democratic shield. International cooperation, public institutions, civil society, the private sector, and independent journalism are emerging as key actors in defending democracy against illicit power and disinformation. The session aims to analyze the factors driving democratic deterioration in Latin America and highlight specific experiences, with integrity as a central theme, that have succeeded in strengthening accountability and protecting fundamental rights and freedoms through multi-stakeholder and multilateral cooperation. The session also aims to identify innovative and replicable strategies, promoted by German cooperation and its regional partners, that contribute to rebuilding trust, strengthening democratic resilience, and promoting collective action to defend democracy against corruption.

  Coordinated by GIZ-BMZ

  Featuring GIZ-BMZ, REDLAC, GIZ Costa Rica, Siemens Energy, GIZ Ecuador, GIZ Peru, Public Ministry of the Dominican Republic and Comptroller General of the Dominican Republic

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Integrity or Illusion? Strengthening Anti-Corruption to Safeguard Democracy

  ODIHR’s side-event aims to share good practices and experiences on supporting democratic institutions in upholding integrity for MPs and PTEFs and strengthening oversight. The panel will showcase ODIHR’s assessment tools, link public integrity and anti-corruption strategies, highlight regional practices, and foster dialogue among inter-governmental institutions, authorities and civil society.

  Coordinated by OSCE/ODIHR

  Featuring OSCE/ODIHR, former chair of GRECO and former chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, Portuguese National Anti-Corruption Mechanism, GRECO and Poder Ciudadano (TI Argentina)

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Igniting Integrity in Public Decision-Making

  ODIHR will present key findings from its research on public integrity across the OSCE region and its parliamentary integrity assessment methodology. Alongside GRECO evaluations and international standards, the panel will highlight innovative solutions, regional perspectives, national challenges and offer cross-continental perspectives in strengthening public integrity frameworks.

  Coordinated by OSCE/ODIHR

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Rebooting Accountability-OS: Data-Driven Action to Firewall Democracy for the People and the Planet

  Across the globe, networks of lobbyists are hacking our democracies to roll back progress on climate and social policies. For civil society to succeed in stemming the flow of corporate capture, transparency tools are the root code needed to reboot the accountability OS. Join us to discover how data driven tools are deployed as a firewall in the fight for democracy, the people and the planet.

  Coordinated by Transparency International EU

  Featuring Transparency International EU, Transparency International - Australia, F Minus and InfluenceMap

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Reversing IFFs: New Strategies, Tactics and Tools

  Five experts address IFFs, the use of AI tools in investigations, more effective targeted sanctions, impact funded litigation, cross-border investigations, new legal options, and strategies with proven successful outcomes.

  Coordinated by Restitution Impact Ltd

  Featuring Restitution Impact Ltd, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC, Sierra Leone), Steptoe LLC, The Sentry and Arktouros PLLC

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Playing a Game to Expose Corruption

  We will play a game together, called Kleptocrat: How to Hide Dirty Money. The session will immerse you into the choices faced by corrupt public officials, as they take public money, structure how to hide it, move the money, network with enablers and finally, take the money out and enjoy it. Playing as the corrupt official will clarify for you how to investigate and expose these abuses.

  Coordinated by Seek Initiative

  Featuring Seek Initiative

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Unexpected Coalitions: How Anti-Corruption Agencies & Civil Society Work Together Behind the Scenes

  This workshop explores strategic collaboration between reform-minded anti-corruption authorities and civil society organizations. Drawing on Lava Jato and experiences in Ghana, participants will learn how government and non-governmental actors can work together discreetly to advance anti-corruption agendas while overcoming opposition.

  Coordinated by Chandler Foundation

  Featuring Harvard Law School, Global Anticorruption Blog, Chandler Foundation, Transparency International - Brasil, University of Brasilia, Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Innovation at Work: Tools and Alliances for Human Rights–Based Anti-Corruption Action

  This session highlights innovative tools that connect anti-corruption and human rights across Courts, State institutions, international cooperation, civil society, academia and the UN. Through its application to concrete cases and open exchange, participants explore how alliances can strengthen integrity-based approaches and turn ideas into action for justice and democratic accountability.

  Coordinated by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

  Featuring Global Civil Society Coalition for the UNCAC, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ/GIZ), Liberian Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC), Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  From Silence to Accountability: Building an Integrity Movement Against Gendered Corruption

  This interactive session presents the African Women Against Corruption Network's (AWACN) approach to building a sustained integrity movement against gendered corruption across communities, campuses, and professional spaces. With international contributors spanning movement practice, legal scholarship, male engagement, and civil society leadership, it explores how locally rooted leadership can surface abuses of power, strengthen accountability, and inform global anti-corruption practice.

  Coordinated by African Women Against Corruption Network (AWACN)

  Featuring African Women Against Corruption Network (AWACN), BESA Global, UNU Maastricht University and Transparency International - Secretariat

• Strategy Sessions: Innovation, Movements, and Coalitions: The Power of Integrity in Action
  

  Rhizomic Resistance: How Distributed Civil Society Networks Outmaneuver 21st-Century Kleptocracy

  Kleptocracy spreads like a rhizome: borderless, decentralized, regenerating when cut. Traditional anti-corruption institutions, vertically organized and nationally bounded, cannot match it. This workshop examines three pioneering transnational, interdisciplinary civil society formations — the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Arctida, and Accountability Lab — as models of rhizomic resistance.

  Coordinated by NED

  Featuring Investigative journalists, Anti-Corruption Data Collective, paper trail media, Arctida and Accountability Lab

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology: Friends, Foes, or the Future of Business Integrity?

  AI is rewriting the rules of ethics and compliance. This workshop dives into how it can supercharge risk detection, third-party due diligence, monitoring and reporting — while tackling the real challenge: keeping humans in control so integrity isn’t outsourced to algorithms.

  Coordinated by UN Global Compact

  Featuring United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vodacom, Microsoft, Steptoe LLP, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)

• The Future is Today: Shaping the Tech Innovation Race
  

  Scaling Public Sector AI with Accountability

  In this workshop, journalists and civil society members will work together to evaluate the impact of a public sector AI system from different angles. How would you evaluate this system? What data would you need? What barriers do you anticipate? Who could you work with to get more information? You will learn from the work of two grantees at the Pulitzer Center and civil society to ground your ideas.

  Coordinated by Pulitzer Center

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, Salud con Lupa, Derechos Digitales and Amenaza Roboto

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  Play to Win: Gaming in the Public Interest

  Civil society and investigative outlets must reach broader audiences, especially younger generations. OCCRP’s Floodlight Gaming gives game developers access to investigative reporting about organized crime & corruption to adapt into interactive media experiences. This panel will explore the intersection between civil society’s goals & strategies & the video gaming industry.

  Coordinated by The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

  Featuring Pulitzer Center, The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Polyvale Studios and “Dark Money” game developer

• Igniting Youth Action: The Integrity Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
  

  Integrity First: How Gen Z Is Reframing Anti-Corruption to Unlock the SDGs

  Young people increasingly view corruption not only as a governance challenge, but as one of the greatest barriers to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This interactive workshop brings together youth leaders, policymakers, civil society representatives, and private sector actors to reframe corruption through a sustainable development lens and co-design actionable pathways for integrating youth-led integrity solutions into development strategies. Participants will also explore and discuss the findings of the first-ever Youth Corruption Perception Index, offering fresh insights into how young people perceive corruption and its impact on development.

  Coordinated by Youth Against Corruption (YAC Foundation)

  Featuring Organización Iberoamericana de Juventud (OIJ) to the United Nations (Secretary General of the Council of Global Change), XAKSIA, TRACODA, Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S), Youth Against Corruption (YAC Foundation) & Gen Z Movement LATAM and ICY Ambassador

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  How the Brussels Effect is reshaping the Fight against Global Anti-Corruption

  The Brussels Effect: EU rules reshaping the global fight against corruption. Aims

  • Show how EU anti-corruption rules are shaping corporate behaviour beyond the EU’s borders
  • Compare the reach and compliance expectations of the EU framework, the US FCPA and the UK Bribery Act
  • Spark cross-regional dialogue on the convergence of anti-corruption standards

  Objectives

  • Panellists examine real cases of EU extraterritorial influence on companies and supply chains
  • Engage the audience through a moderated Q&A
  • Identify practical takeaways for policymakers, companies and civil society

  Coordinated by Deloitte

  Featuring Deloitte, myAbility and CSREC

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  The Business Case for Public Governance Metrics

  This workshop will identify how multinational companies benefit from and use public governance indicators to inform their operations. It will explore how companies consider information about the quality of governance – such as rule of law adherence, control of corruption, and integrity of public officials – in their decisionmaking and opportunities to enhance how the private sector uses this data.

  Coordinated by World Justice Project (WJP)

  Featuring World Justice Project (WJP), Transparency International - Secretariar, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, Microsoft

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  Data-Driven Integrity: How Investors are managing Corruption Risk to support Responsible Business

  Investors play a critical role in promoting anti-corruption and building responsible businesses. To enable this, investors and companies need to collect, report and action meaningful data throughout the investment cycle, and proactively respond to risk trends captured by data across connected areas of corruption, governance, human rights and environmental risk. How can investors, standard setters and civil society raise the bar on sustainability reporting to strengthen transparency and build resilient businesses?

  Coordinated by Financial Services at British International Investment

  Featuring Transparency International - UK, Financial Services, British International Investment, Global Reporting Initiative, Apis Capital, Human Rights & Social Issues, Principles for Responsible Investment

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  Systematic Harm Systemic Response: Defining Corportate Criminal Liability for Damage to the Social Fabric?

  This Interactive Circle explores how corporate criminal liability can address systemic harm to the social fabric. Participants will examine anti-corruption, ESG, and accountability frameworks that move beyond sanctions toward social repair. The aim is to redefine corporate responsibility as a driver of resilience, restoring trust, preventing corruption, and transforming structural damage into shar

  Coordinated by Transparency, Anti-Corruption & Digitlization Initiative

  Featuring GCIX and Special Advisor on Compliance and Legal matter for LATAM - FTSE 100; HRD

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  AI vs MA Methodology applied: What Really works to Strengthen Integrity in SMEs

  Artificial intelligence is key to due diligence and risk management in value chains, but its use in SMEs poses challenges in terms of access, skills, inclusion, and trust. Does it strengthen integrity or create new gaps? The session analyzes the balance between technology and applied methodology, with practical case studies.

  Coordinated by Alliance for Integrity / GIZ

  Featuring GIZ Mexico, Alliance for Integrity / GIZ, Empresarios por la Integridad, Internal Oversight (OPCW), Ministry of Industry, Trade and MSMEs, Dominican Republic, UN Global Compact, YPF S.A, Grupo UNACEM and Transparencia Mexicana

• Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change
  

  Ethics and Business as a Strategic Marriage – Can it work or are there Risks for a Divorce?

  This session argues that in a world of uncertainty & contested norms, integrity is not an abstract ideal but a practical foundation for market access, investment confidence & growth. The discussion will take stock of key trends shaping the integrity landscape, including geopolitical fragmentation, uneven enforcement, supply chain disruption, digitalization, & shifting ESG expectations.

  Coordinated by Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)

  Featuring Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), Deutsche Bank, Getinge, OECD and Transparency International

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  From Reports to Results: Financial Intelligence Units at the Frontline against Dirty Money

  How do we use suspicious transaction reports to combat corruption and IFFs? This session will spotlight the role of FIUs in disrupting corruption-linked illicit finance and address the bottlenecks that blunt their impact – from constraints on autonomy and data access to lack of resources. It will debate reform priorities and practical fixes to to help FIUs respond more effectively to dirty money.

  Coordinated by Transparency International - Brasil

  Featuring Transparency International - Brasil, Brazil's Financial Intelligence Unit (Conselho de Controle de Atividade Financeira), FIU Dominican Republic (Unidad de Análisis Financiero – UAF), Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) – World Bank–UNODC

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  PPPs Critical to Fight Organized Crime and Threat Networks Fueling Global Corruption and Insecurity

  • Develop and Launch a formal IACC PPP on Fighting Organized Crime and Threat Networks fueling global corruption and insecurity.
  • Announcing a series of future IACC training lead by ICAIE and other NGOs working with investigators and prosecutors.
  • High key global trends and data from a criminal-threat convergence prism.

  Coordinated by International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE)

  Featuring International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), Illicit Shadows, Senator Bill Cassidy Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  Anti-Corruption as Conflict Prevention: Lessons learned from Conflict-affected Settings

  Anti-corruption tools and approaches can directly contribute to conflict prevention. Drawing on cross-sectoral research, guidance and practical insights will examine tools, lessons learnt and good practices from addressing corruption in fragile and conflict-affected settings and discuss the role of civil society in advancing integrity and transparency to contribute to peace and stability.

  Coordinated by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

  Featuring United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Transparency International Defence & Security, Office of the Resident Coordinator (UN Kenya), UNDP Arab States, Anti-Corruption and Integrity and Transparency International - Colombia

• Corruption, Conflict, and Security: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  

  The Economics of Crime: Corruption, Organized Crime, and Money Laundering

  Organized crime poses a growing cross-border threat to economic and financial stability, global security, and the rule of law—fueling corruption, weakening institutions and their governance, and generating vast illicit flows through sophisticated networks. Drawing on a forthcoming book -- The Economics of Crime in Latin America: From Diagnosis to Policy Responses (Palgrave Macmillan)— this panel examines macroeconomic impacts, enforcement gaps, and coordinated, economically informed solutions to disrupt these incentives.

  Coordinated by International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Featuring International Monetary Fund (IMF), Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) and Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo (TI-Ecuador)

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  Safeguarding Civic Space as a Foundation for Effective Anti-Corruption

  Anti-corruption measures are essential to good governance—but when poorly designed or misapplied, they can restrict civic space. This workshop will examine the relationship between anti-corruption measures and civil society, exploring how civic space is key to fighting corruption and must be safeguarded by anti-corruption measures to avoid unintentionally undercutting anti-corruption efforts.

  Coordinated by International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)

  Featuring International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), Transparency International - El Salvador, Transparency International - Secretariat and United Nations (UN)

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  Rewriting the Rules: Global South Solutions for Real Whistleblower Protection

  Whistleblower protection has long been treated as a universal legal problem with universal solutions. But Western models assume rule of law, functioning institutions, and public trust - conditions that often do not exist across the Global South. This mismatch makes imported frameworks not just ineffective, but dangerous. Local realities are therefore demanding grounded protection frameworks.

  Coordinated by PPLAAF

  Featuring PPLAAF, Transparency International - Secretariat, Former Chief Justice (South Africa) and Mexico's National Anti-Corruption System

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  Silence Is Expensive: How Whistle-blowers can expose Tax Corruption

  Tax corruption thrives in silence across both public and private sectors undermining public revenue, trust, and fair economic governance. Weak reporting and protection systems deter insiders, from companies and administrations, from exposing tax fraud. This workshop examines how aligned whistle-blower protection, corporate reporting channels, and voluntary disclosures can disrupt tax corruption.

  Coordinated by Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Authorities (GlobE Network)

  Featuring Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Authorities (GlobE Network), United Nations (UN), His Majesty’s Revenue and customs (HMRC, UK), Graymatter Forensic Advisory, Supreme Council of Economic Affairs and Investment of Qatar and Transparency International - Brasil

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  Silencing Integrity: The Hidden Infrastructure of Corruption

  High-profile cases such as the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal how abuse is sustained by wealth, political protection, and institutional complicity. Yet public debate often reduces them to sexual scandal or moral panic, obscuring their corruption and governance dimensions. The same dynamics operate within corporations, governments, and NGOs: those who challenge misconduct are isolated, discredited, or harassed. This workshop centers people and frontline integrity actors, recognizing institutional harassment as a form of corruption.

  Coordinated by Presbyterian University

  Featuring UN Global Compact, Presbyterian University, Pontifical Catholic University of Paran, Inter-American Development Bank, African Women Against Corruption Network (AWACN) and Schneider Electric

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  Environmental and Climate Whistleblowers in an Age of Crisis

  Through frontline stories, whistleblowers who exposed corruption driving environmental crime and harm will highlight their vital role in protecting people and the planet for future generations — often at great personal risk. The session will also explore how they can be better supported and protected.

  Coordinated by Climate Whistleblowers

  Featuring Climate Whistleblowers, PPLAAF, Government Accountability Project, Wildlife Justice Commission and a whistleblower

• Protecting People of Integrity: Standing with the Frontliners
  

  Inclusive Action to Combat Corruption – Centering Marginalized Voices as Integrity Defenders

  Successful anti-corruption movements mobilize people of all identities, ensuring everyone has a voice. In this workshop, integrity defenders from Albania, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Lebanon will share experiences and strategies to create and sustain collective action that centers and protects vulnerable communities and frontline advocates as they corruption and access justice and accountability.

  Coordinated by International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

  Featuring International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Albania Helsinki Committee (AHC), Justice Without Frontiers-Lebanon, Indonesia Corruption Watch, Accion Ciudadana Guatemala (Transparency International - Guatemala)

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Political Corruption: The Delicate Role that Prosecutors and Judges must play

  Illicit funding—from individuals, state resources, corporations, or foreign actors—continues to undermine elections globally, while enforcement remains constrained by political and institutional barriers. This session by P4I, EFOR, and TI France examines landmark corruption cases, prosecution challenges, and strategies to strengthen accountability in political finance.

  Coordinated by Partnerships for Integrity (P4I)

  Featuring Expert Forum (Romania), Partnerships for Integrity (P4I), Former Chief Justice of the High Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of Mexico, Kenya Judiciary, National Financial Prosecution Office in Paris (PNF) and Special Anti-Corruption and Organised Crime Structure (SPAK)Prosecutor’s Office, Albania

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Foreign Influence or Global Kleptocracy? Reassessing the Problem, Rebuilding the Toolkit

  Corruption, money laundering and foreign influence can no longer be treated as separate issues. Illicit and semi-licit wealth now act as geopolitical power, connecting kleptocrats, strategic investments, disinformation, sanctions evasion and professional enablers inside global institutions. Has the distinction between “foreign influence” and “domestic” kleptocracy collapsed? And what comes next?

  Coordinated by University of Birmingham

  Featuring University of Birmingham, SECTA Research, Coda Story, University of Rijeka and The World Bank Group

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Modernizing the Fight: How to Survive Disinformation Attacks against Your Organization

  Even as traditional funding and support systems grow more fragile, anti-corruption advocates face increasingly sophisticated threats. Coordinated efforts to misinform, intimidate, defund, and erode public trust are spreading, undermining organizations and posing an existential threat to our ecosphere. This workshop contributes to the collective response needed to operate in this new environment. Why is this topic relevant to the fight against corruption? (please briefly outline the corruption angle) (295/300) Failure to properly address aggressive disinformation campaigns can lead to efficiency losses, reputational harm, and even organizational collapse, as recent examples show. Understanding how these attacks are designed helps build defenses that strengthen resilience and protect our institutions.

  Coordinated by The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

  Featuring The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Transparency International - Brasil, McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, American Sunlight Project, Senior Director of Policy & Research, Information Operations and ISD-US

• Defending Democracy and Freedoms: Integrity as our Shield
  

  Information as Resistance: Defending Democracy with Integrity, Transparency, and Civic Literacy

  Participants from Brazil, South Africa, and the US will share how citizens and institutions are resisting disinformation and the lack of state transparency that fuel impunity. They will present key tools for protecting courts & elections, tracking election denial, preserving public records, and building youth civic literacy.

  Coordinated by Instituto Democracia em Xeque

  Featuring WeThePeopleSA, Keseb, American Oversight, Instituto Democracia em Xeque and Ground Work Collective

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