On 9–11 May, ADB and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) organized the 11th Regional Conference of the Anti-Corruption Initiative (ACI) for Asia and the Pacific at ADB Headquarters in Manila.
The conference and working groups, focusing on post-pandemic rebuilding, gathered more than 70 anticorruption policymakers, practitioners, experts, law enforcement, and private sector representatives in promoting transparency, integrity, and trust to build resilient economies.
Thematic working group sessions examined business integrity, law enforcement, and public integrity on national, multinational, or thematic efforts to implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption and Action Plan, assess developments and progress, and share lessons learned. The Steering Group refined the work plan going forward for ACI.
ADB's Office of Anticorruption and Integrity's (OAI) 7th episode of #IntegrityByTheNumbers presents key figures from July to December 2022, highlighting its continued investigations work as the world transitioned to the new normal.
This episode summarizes the highlights of sanctions analysis and integrity due diligence, proactive integrity reviews, and knowledge and capacity building on anticorruption and integrity, anti-money laundering and countering of terrorism, and tax integrity.
This new publication series shares insights and lessons from over 80 proactive integrity reviews across ADB sovereign projects on how control weaknesses could create integrity risks in procurement, asset, and financial management.
A new eLearn course helps implementing and executing agencies enhance their knowledge of identifying integrity-related risks in ADB projects, preventing potential integrity violations, and improving internal controls in project implementation.
In the first half of 2023, OAI organized six training sessions for more than 300 participants from executing and implementing agencies, project teams, consultant teams, and other stakeholders in ADB-funded projects. These were held in collaboration with ADB's Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department, Central and West Asia Department, Mongolia Resident Mission, Tajikistan Resident Mission, India Resident Mission, and Armenia Resident Mission.
The learning events are part of OAI's Integrity Learning Series, which seeks to raise awareness of ADB’s integrity risk framework and build capacity on integrity risk prevention and detection.
In this World Bank blog, Basel Institute on Governance's Managing Director Gretta Fenner shares how multilateral development banks' integrity offices are coordinating their efforts to prevent, investigate, and sanction corruption.
It summarizes the 2022 International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) panel discussion on MDB's anticorruption efforts with high-level representatives from integrity offices of the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and World Bank.
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