Seminar
Sep 25 - 27 (2024)
- Venue: Le Meridien, Thimphu
About the Seminar
The ADB and OECD, in collaboration with the Royal Government of Bhutan Anti-Corruption Commission, are organising the ACI 2024 Seminar on Government Incentives for Corporate Anti-Corruption Compliance in Thimphu, Bhutan on 25-27 September 2024.
The ACI 2024 Seminar brings together anti-corruption experts from the governments of its 34 member economies, as well as representatives from civil society, international organisations, and the private sector. The meetings aims to share good practices and build the capacities of participants in developing government policies regarding incentives. The focus is on how governments design and implement incentives to encourage businesses to adopt ethical practices, comply with anti-corruption requirements, act as role models through transparency initiatives, prevent and detect corruption and cooperate with law enforcement. It will also discuss how anti-corruption and integrity tools and frameworks can promote ethical behaviour within companies and the importance of responsible lobbying and influence to safeguard the public interest from corruption and undue influence. The Seminar will demonstrate how alignment with international standards can harmonise global efforts to incentivise cross-border compliance with integrity and anti-corruption regulations. It will illustrate why a whole-of-society approach is required to promote ethical conduct in both the public and private sectors and provide strategies and practical solutions to effectively address these issues.
The Seminar will build on the 2024 Resource Guide on State Measures for Strengthening Business Integrity, which provides governments with a framework for identifying and implementing an appropriate mix of sanctions and incentives for encouraging business integrity. It will also unpack policy recommendations from OECD instruments on public integrity and anti-corruption, such as the OECD Anti-Bribery Recommendation, the Recommendation on Public Integrity, the Recommendation on Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying and Influence and the Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service.
The 2024 Seminar will be structured as follows:
- One-day workshop for Bhutan national stakeholders on Business Integrity
- One-and-half day seminar on Government incentives for corporate anti-corruption compliance
- Half-day meeting of the Public Integrity Network (PIN). This meeting will discuss, among other issues, how integrity and conflict-of-interest frameworks and tools can encourage ethical behaviour in the public and private sectors and the importance of responsible lobbying and influence to safeguard the public interest from corruption and undue influence.
- One-day parallel (restricted and confidential) meeting of the Law Enforcement Network (LEN). The LEN provides an opportunity for investigators, prosecutors, and other law-enforcement practitioners to exchange experience on corruption offences and investigation and prosecution methods. The LEN meeting is restricted to law enforcement practitioners only.
