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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Richard Nephew
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Gretta Fenner 1975–2024: Addenda Memorial Service Information
GAB sadly reports passing of Gretta Fenner, Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance and Director of its International Centre for Asset Recovery. A close friend of this writer and a true champion of the global fight against corruption, she died Saturday evening in an automobile accident in Nairobi. A message from Basel Institute’s President is here.
Dear friends and followers of the Basel Institute,
You will doubtless by now be aware of the tragic passing of our Managing Director Gretta Fenner last weekend.
Even as we grieve, we have appreciated the countless messages of condolence and tributes that have been flooding in from all corners of the world. Their depth and breadth are testimony to the extraordinary woman that Gretta was and the passion that she inspired in the anti-corruption community and beyond.
Many have shared their sympathy and memories on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.
For those close to Gretta who wish to transmit a message to the Institute’s team or her family and partner, please fill in this form.
A selection will also be displayed on a public tribute web page that is under development.
Many thanks from all of us at the Basel Institute on Governance
Memorial Service
The Memorial Service for Gretta will be held on Wednesday, 8 May at 14:00 Swiss time at the Grossmünster in Zurich. Live streaming will be available at this link.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to support the tennis club in Nairobi, which Gretta helped to set up and where her son Lukas had a wonderful time earlier this year. View details.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Gretta Fenner and Daniel Eriksson
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Job Postings: Centre for the Study of Corruption and International Centre for Asset Recovery
Two first-rate anticorruption NGOs have openings —
The Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) based at the University of Sussex in the UK has recently received a multi-million dollar grant from the UK government to research Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) – part of the wider ACE programme run by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. It has openings with a closing date of March 25th for two positions: Programme Manager (details here) and Comms Manager (details here).
The Basel Institute on Governance is an independent non-profit organisation working across sectors to counter corruption and related financial crimes and to improve the quality of governance. Registered as a Swiss foundation with headquarters in Basel, the Institute works globally and maintains field operations around the world. The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) is a division of the Basel Institute that aims to strengthen the capacities of countries around the world to recover assets stolen through corruption. It has an opening for a (Senior) Specialist, Asset Recovery Policy (details here.)
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Alison Taylor
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New Resource Guide on Corruption Risk Assessment of Legislation
As a too-familiar cliché has it, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and this is a message many in the anticorruption community have taken to heart. But talking in general terms about the importance of preventing corruption is one thing; figuring out how to design specific, practical anticorruption measures is a much greater challenge. Among the preventative tools in the anticorruption toolkit, one that has shown some promise in a number of countries, and that has attracted attention in many others, is the pre-enactment analysis of proposed laws to assess the corruption risks associated with those laws. This process is sometimes referred to as “corruption risk assessment” (CRA). (It is also—rather unfortunately—sometimes referred to as the “corruption-proofing” of proposed legislation, a label that vastly oversells what this sort of assessment is capable of doing.) We have had a couple of posts on this technique on the blog previously (see here and here).
Last month, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) published a useful resource guide on CRA intended primarily for parliaments (and other legislative bodies), authored by GAB’s own senior contributor Rick Messick. (Full disclosure: I provided some comments on a very early draft of the guide, and I also worked as a consultant, though in a comparatively minor role, on a related project with the NDI’s Bangkok office.) To quote from the introduction, this guide “suggests how a CRA procedure can be incorporated into the standing rules of parliament and provides a checklist of issues the CRA should consider…. While primarily written for stakeholders in parliament, the guide can be adapted for use by anti-corruption agencies, executive branch agencies, civil society organizations (CSO) and other groups to detect and highlight the corruption risks that exist in legislative processes.”
The link above goes to the NDI page with information about the guide and related documents. You can also go directly to a PDF of the guide itself here. I hope some of our readers find this to be a useful resource.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Sankhitha Gunaratne
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Upcoming Symposium on Integrity in Climate Finance: Call for Contributions
This coming May 9-10, the World Bank, Green Climate Fund, and Transparency International, together with several other partners, are jointly hosting a Symposium on Supranational Responses to Corruption: Integrity in Climate Finance and Action. The event will take place in London. The symposium theme is a timely one. At the most recent Global Conference of State Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, states and financial institutions committed to record-breaking financing for climate solutions across sectors, and established the structure of the long-awaited Loss & Damage Fund to help developing countries. But corruption and fraud remain significant risks to public and private investments across developed and developing countries, and this means that the vast mounts of money that will be needed to address global climate change may be exposed to substantial integrity risks.
The conference organizers have recently published a call for contributions, and they are encouraging practitioners and scholars from all relevant areas (finance, law, economics, technology, sociology, etc.) and sectors (government, private sector, academia, financial community, non-profit, international organizations, etc.) to submit proposals. The organizers particularly encourage proposals that take an interdisciplinary or cross-sectoral approach.
Proposed contributions should be submitted to IntegritySymposium@worldbank.org by February 4, 2024–two weeks from today.
We hope that many of you will consider submitting proposals and join our efforts to support a creative, efficient, and coordinated evolution of integrity policies to tackle the specific challenges arising from climate finance and action, helping ensure that the deployed resources are going where they are sorely needed.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Daniel Freund
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