04.04.2019
Mexico, Mexico City
The conference also featured parallel breakout sessions on “OECD as an Integrity Promoter: Challenges to the Implementation of the Recommendations”, “Trends in Fighting Corruption in Latin America: Window of Opportunity”, and “Good Practice from the Ground: How SMEs Build up Compliance Capacities”.
The first parallel session highlighted the integral role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in promoting integrity, focusing on three main pillars: instruments, processes and structures. Panellists in the second parallel session discussed the need for the adoption of integrity as a moral principle and the implementation of international best practice examples in corruption prevention across Latin America. The last parallel session was focused on the creation of integrity programmes in small and medium-sized enterprises with the support of business chambers and tools such as mobile applications, whilst promoting the business case for anti-corruption.
Earlier in the day, Susanne Friedrich, Director of Alliance for Integrity, highlighted the initiative’s work in corporate corruption prevention across the regions it is active in, and entreated stakeholders to strengthen their collective resolve to increase integrity in the economic system.
Dr. Thomas Cieslik, Senior Policy Advisor for Enterprise Development and Sustainable Economy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), who closed the conference, called on participants to be ambassadors of integrity in their respective organisations.
Other high-level speakers who took part in the conference included Juan Ignacio Díaz, CEO, Siemens México; Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros, Mexican Secretary of the Civil Service; Juan Carlos Alverde, CEO, Toks; Peter Tempel, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Mexico and Wagner Rosário, Minister, Ministry for Transparency and Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), Brazil, who all gave their opinions on how to create impact in the implementation of business integrity measures.
Other activities undertaken at the conference included an exhibition on an award for trainers, and a marketplace for corruption prevention tools from the Alliance for Integrity’s networks around the globe.
The Global Integrity Week 2019 is expected to create new opportunities for the Alliance for Integrity in the implementing countries and regions as the initiative focuses on making stronger impact and lasting interventions with its activities.