Online Events

Education plays a key role in the fight against corruption. Our efforts must be based on sound knowledge-based education and research, providing tailored training to equip and empower professionals with practical and theoretical knowledge. This webinar will showcase the experiences of practitioners and academics in anti-corruption education and will emphasize the value of strengthening their knowledge to improve the fight against corruption, through capacity building activities.

The third virtual panel discussion on environmental crime and corruption was successfully delivered on 24 March. The final event of the three-part series was organized by the International Anti-Corruption Academy and the Wildlife Justice Commission, with the support of external partners from different sectors and backgrounds around the globe.

To conclude the series, experts have presented concrete avenues to tackle this global issue. As stressed in previous panel discussions, any strategy willing to address environmental crime must target the corruption that enables it. This event underlined the challenges faced by law enforcement in investigating the nexus between environmental crime and corruption and discussed the key best practices to target these crimes

Corruption in the customs services is an important enabler for activities of criminal organizations involved in illicit drug trafficking. While only specific areas/regions specialize in production of drugs, their consumption spreads worldwide. This brings the customs services to the forefront of preventing and detecting illicit drug trafficking.
This event will present best international and regional practices in prevention of corruption in customs. It will focus on the relevant initiatives regarding anti-corruption education, capacity building, and technical assistance.

Now that more than 45 countries have whistleblower protection laws in place – with many more in the works – expertise is being developed to protect employees from retaliation. What may seem like a quick and easy task is proving to be more complicated and difficult than expected.
In this online discussion, top international experts will explain the most effective and efficient ways to shield employees, win their reinstatement if they are dismissed or demoted, and obtain compensation if they suffer damages. You will learn many time-tested tactics and techniques to best protect employees from reprisals, while ensuring that their reports of crime and corruption are properly investigated and remedied.
If you deal with whistleblowers, work on whistleblower cases, or design whistleblower protection systems, this discussion will give you valuable insights that will help you achieve success and justice.

According to the UN “The World’s Women 2020: Trends and Statistics”, in terms of power and decision making, women held only 28% of managerial positions globally in 2019 – almost the same proportion as in 1995. Especially for Risk and Compliance professionals, who are responsible for many of the most crucial functions within their own organizations, women only represent a small number in the profession when including security, privacy, and audit functions.

The International Anti-Corruption Academy is inviting you to a virtual panel discussion exploring the current challenges and opportunities that women face in the Compliance world. We want to learn from each other’s experiences and discuss how to better navigate in the work field. The panel discussion brings together experienced women in ethics and compliance, including officials and chief executive officers, who are fighting unethical practices and non-compliance in the business sector.

Los mecanismos y formas de corrupción han venido evolucionando a la par de los cambios acelerados que experimentan nuestras sociedades, generando de igual forma una clara necesidad de contar con estrategias innovadoras de prevención, detección y sanción. Aspectos como el rol esencial del sector privado y su consecuente interacción con reguladores, una creciente demanda social de transparencia e información pública, y un desarrollo tecnológico sin precedentes, conllevan una exigencia de repensar las estrategias contra la corrupción. En el presente evento, expertos con amplia experiencia en el ámbito anticorrupción del sector público y privado compartirán sus experiencias en la implementación de nuevas estrategias y mecanismos, así como su visión del panorama que avizoran. 

Join us for the second of out of a three-part webinar series, where the key transversal questions between environmental crimes and corruption will be outlined and explained. Corruption is one of the principal drivers of environmental crimes and enables them along the whole supply chain. As such, any approach to fight environmental crimes must tackle corruption.

The intricate linkages between corruption and climate change need be clearly understood and discussed at national and international levels. Both threaten human life. It has been empirically established that corruption fuels climate change. As a corollary, climate action plans cannot succeed without fighting corruption. The UN sustainable development goals demand urgent actions to combat climate change and corruption in various forms. The current virtual panel discussion will address the major issues of corruption and climate change, including some of the key aspects of COP26 on this front. It will focus on the crucial role of diplomacy and international negotiations in achieving the SDGs on climate change and in hardwiring anti-corruption measures into climate actions and policies.

Prevenir y sancionar la corrupción es una necesidad que se ha visto acrecentada por la actual pandemia global, la cual conlleva procesos acelerados de contratación y una generación de incentivos sin precedentes para la reactivación de la economía. El actual escenario nos plantea no sólo grandes retos, sino también una oportunidad única para repensar las formas de prevenir y afrontar la corrupción. El presente evento abordará la necesidad crucial de impulsar alianzas y colaboración público-privada en la lucha contra este problema en Latinoamérica, región en la cual se viene implementando una ola de reformas normativas de prevención y sanción en ambos sectores. También se identificarán retos en el marco del escenario post-COVID, haciendo énfasis en las oportunidades.

Join us for this first of out of a three-part  ebinar series, where the nexus between environmental crimes and corruption will be outlined and explained. Corruption is one of the principal drivers of environmental crimes and enables them along the whole supply chain. As such, any approach to fight environmental crimes must tackle corruption. This first webinar will provide all necessary information to understand how corruption manifests itself in wildlife trafficking, fisheries crime and illegal logging. It will act as the basis for the rest of the series, where transversal corruption-related questions and law enforcement methods to tackle  environmental crimes will be discussed.

Delivering good public policy is hard at the best of times.  There are usually legal mechanisms and structured processes to implement policies. However, when corruption is present good public policy is distorted.  Corruption costs governments and businesses trillions of dollars per year, it adds substantially to costs of goods and services, but most importantly it damages policy objectives, diminishes trust and reduces public value.

One of the events organized in the framework of the IACA ALUMNI reunion taking place from 24 from 28 May 2021 was the lecture “Culture and Corruption” by Robert Klitgaard. During the discussion, Prof. Klitgaard discussed the nexus between the culture and corruption, described the understanding of a corrupt culture and provided case studies about the corrupt processes from around the world.

Moreover, in an attempt to find an answer to the question of whether some cultures are more vulnerable to corruption than others, Prof. Klitgaard analyzed the factors that define this phenomenon.

You are very welcome to watch and learn more about culture and corruption.

Strengthening transparency is often seen as an effective and pragmatic tool to tackle corruption in fisheries. However, even with a greater public interest in the fisheries sector, basic information still often remains out of the public domain, diminishing the prospect of effective oversight and accountability.

This webinar will highlight practical insights from transparency efforts in African countries, providing clear guidance for fisheries stakeholders (specially policy makers) on how to conduct activities for the implementation of transparency endeavours.

Do you want to get to know more about the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA)?

ELSA WU Wien and ELSA Vienna invite you to an online session with IACA’s Dean and Executive Secretary, Mr. Thomas Stelzer, where you will have the opportunity to learn more about us and get unique insights into our topics.

COVID-19 has underscored the vital role of business ethics and integrity in healthcare for the world’s economies. Now more than ever, collective action initiatives comprised of diverse health stakeholders are serving as effective tools in upholding integrity, preventing corruption, and supporting patient welfare. Join us for a panel of diverse stakeholders from around the world as we discuss the role of collective action initiatives in healthcare amidst the pandemic.

Our ocean is under increasing threat from climate change, pollution and overexploitation; aspects that have been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sustainable management of fisheries is therefore more important than ever. Yet, sincere efforts are constantly undermined by illegal activities, including various forms of corruption. This cross-cutting factor has received surprisingly little attention, although there is substantial evidence to suggest that corruption in fisheries is perceived to be widespread and highly damaging. The complexity of the fisheries sector, characterised by often long supply chains, as well as a combination of corporate structures and welcoming jurisdictions that protect the identity of owners, makes the sector particularly vulnerable to the negative impacts of beneficial ownership secrecy.

The first webinar of this series, Red flags along the value chain: Fishing authorisations and landing documentation, will have a look at how corruption can occur in the process of obtaining the rights to fish and the landing of catches at port (or trans-shipping at sea). These two stages of a fisheries value chain are in particular prone to the risk of corruption. This webinar will analyse the specific vulnerabilities to corruption when obtaining fishing authorisations (e.g. bribery, embezzlement and conflict of interests) as well as providing landing documentation, and will identify concrete actions for prevention and detection.

Investigative journalism is crucial in unveiling matters of public interest that would otherwise remain concealed, and in this way it plays a key role of informing the public and holding governments, businesses and organisations accountable. Through investigative journalism, often characterised by time-intensive, costly and highly risky operations, many cases of corruption have been revealed.

The aim of this event will prove to be a very simple one: we must not let the pandemic become the excuse for our democracies to become more corrupt and more illiberal, and the proto-authoritarian leaders among us to become more anti-democratic

This webinar, jointly organized by the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) and the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), will address the key drivers of corruption, the effects and different approaches to tackle this global problem.

We are pleased to invite all interested professionals to join us for this interactive webinar on the effects of emergency procurement in the Covid-19 era.

We are pleased to invite all interested professionals to join us for this interactive webinar on whistleblowing and their protection in the Covid-19 era.