Transparency International Core Support 2018-2021 (2023)

Some concrete examples of results reported for 2022. SO1: Protect the publics resources • Fifty-six instances were recorded of partners who have actively contributed to policy and advocacy efforts in the framework of our work on adaptive, risk-based approaches to anti-corruption in Covid-19 responses. • Together with TI's partners, they obtained the issue of conflict-of-interest policy to be included in the observer review process led by UNFCCC. • The EU Commission has proactively been promoting the Integrity Pacts among authorities that manage EU funds, and it has encouraged governments to embed their use in the current plans for the EU budget 2021- 2027. • As a result of TIs work monitoring and protecting resources in the framework of the pandemic, key corruption risks associated with COVID-19 surfaced, and innovative solutions and tools were developed by project partners, including 11 chapters working closely with the Secretariat. Grassroot organisations in Brazil applied TIs Transparency and Public Governance Index (ITGP) and assessed the public resource management of over 180 municipalities in the country (27 states). • Through Transparency International Zimbabwe, five out of six journalists conducted investigations and wrote articles on the use of COVID-19 funds during this reporting period, following initial training and coaching that the chapter had delivered. • The National Land Coalition has advanced the anti-corruption agenda in the land governance community, including the inclusion of a land and corruption thematic track in the five-year strategic plan of the National Land Coalition. • Transparency International and other global CSOs reached 6 million people in a campaign to challenge the undue influence of some actors on climate policy making, especially in global fora like the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). • TI continued to strengthen the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) as a key tool for citizens to seek redress and complaint safely on possible irregularities. In 2022, around the world, they provided legal advice and conducted case work to protect over 9,000 victims and witnesses of corruption, around 40 per cent of which were women. • As a result of the advocacy led by TI-Brazil, the Federal State Environment Commission recognized land grabbing as a land corruption issue and implemented mechanisms in the commission to address it. The chapter also ensured that the countrys coordination body for combatting corruption and money laundering established a working group to oversee the digitalisation of land registration in Brazil. SO2: Stop flows of dirty money • A new global standard on corporate beneficial ownership transparency was approved in line with TI´s recommendations. More than 200 jurisdictions across the world will have to establish beneficial ownership registers or alternative mechanisms that fulfil the same purpose. • Indonesia opened its beneficial ownership register to the public for free. Belgium also stopped charging a fee to access the register and Estonia started to publish the information in open data format. In line with TI´s recommendations, Latvia changed the way they collected beneficial ownership information, which improved the quality of the register. Panama finally implemented a private beneficial ownership register. The UK closed a loophole that enabled foreign companies to anonymously purchase real estate. • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) guidance on beneficial ownership transparency includes several of TI´s recommendations and is an important step in supporting countries to implement strong beneficial ownership registers. • The Financial Action Task Force adopted new guidance on anti-money laundering for the real estate sector, following TIs recommendations on mitigating the conflicts of interest of self-regulatory bodies. • Western countries, multilateral bodies and the media changed the way they talked about Russian oligarchs. Reference to kleptocrats and political elite became more common than at the start of the war. Transparency International had been emphasising the importance of broadening the debate to include a wider number of individuals who have been benefiting from a kleptocratic regime. • The Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on beneficial ownership transparency was a blow to beneficial ownership transparency across the EU and beyond. Transparency International played an important role in ensuring a strong reaction by different actors. The public pressure led the Court of Justice to issue a clarification of the ruling to ascertain the possibility of journalists and civil society continuing to use beneficial ownership registers. Such clarifications are uncommon in the history of the court. • Bulgaria formally ended its suspended golden passport programme. • The European Parliament proposed ending golden passports and regulating golden visa programmes in the EU through a legislative initiative report, and called on the European Commission to table a proposal for implementation by the end of its mandate. • TI organised sign-on letters on several occasions to mobilise local civil society organisations (CSOs) from different regions on cross-border issues (CSOs to the Financial Action Task Force [FATF], African CSOs after the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and an open data community signon letter). • The beneficial ownership (BO) campaign page was launched to support engagement by citizens, journalists and CSOs (the public campaign page also included an opportunity for concerned individuals to send messages to FATF and its members on Twitter). • The reform to improve supervision of banks and non-financial enablers, which often facilitate cross border corruption, steadily moved forward in the EU. • A greater number of journalistic investigations focused on professional enablers. • Recognition by the Group of Seven (G7) and key Western countries of the need to help professional enablers who are accountable in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine. • TI organised a petition calling on Western countries to trace assets of Russia kleptocrats and take action against professional enablers in partnership with change.org. The petition was published in seven languages and signed by more than 170,000 people by the end of 2022. • TI developed a framework to assess the role of financial and non-financial professional enablers on cross-border corruption cases to be used by local organisations and journalists when they investigate corruption or analyse cases. SO3: Secure integrity in politics • The European Parliaments Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation adopted seven Transparency International recommendations in its final report, for example, recommendations to protect democracies from autocratic influence. TI made 22 recommendations to Open Government Partnership (OGP) countries on how to overhaul political finance regimes to deter covert foreign political influence. • Eighteen national chapters and the TI Secretariat developed public, online tools for the visualisation of data to identify where opacity may be covering up undue influence, ill-gotten assets, conflicts of interest and revolving doors. • TI´s data-driven advocacy helped guide the European Parliaments initial response to the Qatar scandal, which took into account many of Transparency International EUs recommendations. In particular, a more precise declaration of financial interests and the publication of lobby meetings for all Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will contribute to enhancing political integrity within the institution. • Seven chapters in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Maldives, Palestine, Zambia and Zimbabwe contributed to 21 legislative, procedural or policy changes to strengthen oversight institutions effectiveness, accountability and independence. • In Kosovo, the Assembly adopted amendments to the law on financing of political parties. The content of this law largely addressed recommendations by the Transparency International chapter, which are also reflected in the National Integrity System (NIS) research. • The Anti-corruption Strategy and Action Plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022-2024 includes over 20 proposals and comments from Transparency International. • Transparency International Brazils Transparency Index led to an important collaboration between the chapter and the 27 comptroller offices. The chapter submitted multiple recommendations to enhance the performance of the comptroller offices, which resulted in these offices making improvements related to greater levels of transparency and digitalisation. • Strengthening Accountability Networks among Civil Society (SANCUS) partners in nine countries employed digital tools to monitor and report on oversight institutions as part of 15 actions. These have primarily targeted citizens by increasing their access to information and the opportunities for them to engage in monitoring processes related to horizontal accountability. Some instances of digital platforms that were developed and implemented included Transparency International Chiles Constitutional monitoring website Convencion Transparente (https://convenciontransparente.cl/) and Transparency International Kenyas public audit portal (http://publicaudit.tikenya.org). SO4 Drive integrity in business • TI published a groundbreaking paper on mapping out anti-corruption in environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. • Chapters in Argentina, Spain and Romania received guidance on collective action in the business integrity space in the context of the ongoing Integrity Pact project. • Partnerships with the OECD Trust in Business Initiative, Basel Institute on Governance, the Alliance for Integrity, the UN Global Compact and the International Anti-corruption Academy to strengthen the business integrity pillar within the global Integrity Pact standard, to be launched in April 2023. SO5: Pursue enforcement and justice • Transparency International Georgia set up and is part of an independent committee entitled to select five per cent (about 300) of all asset declarations to be checked during 2023. • Following Transparency International Brazils advocacy push, a new working group was established within the National Strategy to Combat Corruption and Money Laundering (ENCCLA), to address the digital transformation of land registries and cadastres in Brazil to fight land grabbing. • A Malagasy whistleblower on corruption in the litchi sector had a travel ban that was lifted following Transparency International Madagascars advocacy. • Recommendations provided by Transparency International Madagascar were taken on board in a new law to protect human rights defenders in Madagascar, which has now been submitted to Parliament. • The Federal State Environment Commission adopted Transparency International Brazil framing (land grabbing = land corruption issue) and largely followed the language of its report on land grabbing and corruption. • In Brazil, for the first time, the ENNCLA plenary focused on environmental crimes and adopted a comprehensive resolution drafted by Transparency International Brazil on internal control systems for federal and sub-national governments related to land management and land corruption risks. • Brazil Supreme Court ruled that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. • Three official investigations were opened, two in relation to criminal complaints made by Transparency International Madagascar with the support of the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC) in November 2022. • Madagascars Anti-Corruption Court (PAC) also opened an official investigation based on legal submission by Transparency International Madagascar (November 2022). • An official investigation was opened after a legal submission in France that GACC partnered (July 2022). • The case of Ghana governments Agyapa Royalties deal, submitted by Transparency International Ghana, its coalition members in the Ghana anti-corruption coalition and the Secretariat in December 2020, was considered in court in March 2022. • A property formerly belonging to Gambias ex-Dictator Yahya Jammeh, subject to a legal submission by TI in 2021, was forfeited in the US and its value is set to be returned to the Gambia, with TIs partner organisation in Gambia engaging victims organisations and the government to ensure victims of Jammehs corrupt regime benefit from the return • In total, 74 legal submissions were sent by TI to a wide range of national level judicial and oversight authorities. This includes 48 submissions building on TI Georgias assessment of over 90 high-level corruption cases and sent to a range of national and regional authorities in Georgia including the Prosecutors Office, Security Service, Parliament, State Audit Office or Municipality Internal Audit office. Other countries targeted with submissions mainly on cross-border corruption cases were France, the US, Colombia, or Luxembourg. • There was growing evidence of impact in terms of awareness of the need for victims compensation in foreign bribery cases, including in the USA, the worlds leading enforcement country • There was growing interest in the concept of grand corruption (definition and special measures against grand corruption), as signified by overwhelming attendance of a related International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) workshop on grand corruption. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) coalition working group on grand corruption, newly formed in the second half of 2022, was well attended by a cross-section of stakeholders. SO6: Expand civic space for accountability • Whistleblower protection legislation was adopted in Belgium, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Romania • Malagasy chapter guided a law to protect human rights defenders, which will help people fighting corruption to stay free and safe. • TI convened an event at the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders report which included many of TI´s recommendations on the protection of anti-corruption activists. • Together with allies and TI´s chapter in Germany which served as co-leader of the Civil Society Seven (C7) Open Societies working group the TI Secretariat called on the International Group of Seven (G7) for more robust action to protect civic space and activists. • The TI Secretariat joined TI´s chapter in Iceland in raising alarm over reports that police opened investigations against journalists for their coverage of alleged misconduct at Samherji, the company at the centre of the Fishrot Files corruption scandal. • In Guatemala, TI spoke out against the prosecution of journalists and other anti-corruption defenders, and the controversial re-appointment of Attorney-General Maria Consuelo Porras, in spite of them being included in the US Engel List of corrupt public officials in Central America. • Transparency International Sri Lankas Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) supplied safe reporting mechanisms to victims of sextortion and complemented this with national level advocacy for the anti-corruption legal framework to recognise sextortion as a form of corruption. The government is now in the process of introducing a new law. • Transparency International Nepal through its ALAC ensured that a local government better fulfilled its obligations to give citizens information on public services. • Supporting a whistleblower justice sector in Kosovo, the chapters pressure led to the justice institutions appointing the officials responsible for following the law. Each public institution is required to designate an official to handle internal whistleblowing cases and to encourage whistleblowing. • Overall, nine TI chapters secured a total of twenty-nine key legislative, procedural or policy changes to strengthen citizen participation processes. • The Palestinian chapter led to the formal adoption of transparency as a core principle in the work of local governments. • Around the world, TI provided legal advice and conducted case work to protect over 9,000 victims and witnesses of corruption, around 40 per cent of which were women. • Mobile outreach by Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) has enabled rural communities to voice their grievances and seek assistance, resulting in many instances of people taking action. • A total of 4,776 people were mobilised to participate in monitoring and scrutiny processes in fourteen countries. • More than 10,000 people participated in TI´s anti-corruption initiatives, including almost 5,000 women and 5,000 young people. TI worked with them to monitor public processes or service delivery, and provided free, confidential advice on more than 800 cases that they reported. • In the Western Balkans and Turkey, TI joined forces with more than 200 CSOs on a range of corruption-related issues, including the environment, gender equality and youth policies. SO7: Build community leadership against corruption • Transparency International Indonesia empowered the public by establishing youth-led anti-corruption networks in three regions to increase citizen participation in public budgeting and public procurement processes. • Through its youth democracy camps and ongoing guidance, TI´s Solomon Islands chapter is supporting young people with tools and platforms to participate in public life and encourage their peers to join them. • The Cambodian TI chapter organised youth outreach activities. As a result, these forums became wider spaces for engaging other young people and pushing for accountability with local authorities. • TI produced a report on how the sport sector is alarmingly vulnerable to sextortion, and how sport organisations must urgently address the hierarchies, systems and cultures that drive and cover up this abuse and launched the report with a webinar that featured our experts, the OECD, the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) and Human Rights Watch attendees included the UN and FIFA. • Over two thousand people came to Washington, D.C. for the 20th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), the worlds largest independent forum on this topic. Inclusive and Intersectional Core Principles - Knowledge has been developed on the linkages between gender and corruption with the publication of: - Climate Change, Gender and Corruption - Criminalising Sextortion: Challenges and Alternatives - The Impact of Corruption on LGBTQ Rights - Corruption and the Equal Enjoyment of Rights for Persons with Disabilities - On your Marks, Set Stop Sextortion in Sports • Resources and capacity dedicated to this commitment have been increased with the recruitment of a gender specialist and the implementation of a project looking at the impact of corruption on groups at risks of discrimination in five African countries. • Gender and Inclusion are increasingly mainstreamed into projects, products and tools, with the provision of training, the design of gender-sensitive indicators and the finalisation of mainstreaming guidelines Climate conscious • Carbon footprint for 2020 • Mainstreaming of environmental considerations in two key projects • Mainstreaming of environmental considerations in three proposals Protective of our people • Twenty-five chapters supported, in spite of limited capacity • Successfully increased SAFE capacity, with a new security coordinator starting in November • Safe rollout of a new project in Iraq, one of the most challenging security contexts where the Secretariat operates • Support for the movement in managing risks related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Transparency International (TI) is a global anti-corruption movement. Tl's vision is a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free from corruption. TI is made up of more than 100 chapters worldwide, individual members, and an international Secretariat in Berlin. Since 1993, TI has campaigned for greater transparency and accountability in government and business. TI's mission is to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society. The guiding document for the TI movement is the strategy 2020 "Together against corruption", which is implemented for the period 2016 to 2020. Sidas support is to the TI Secretariat (TI-S) and for its lead in implementing the strategy 2020. Support to TI-S work is expected to contribute to the realization of the SDGs, especially goal 16 on good governance. To contribute to the end goal of a corruption free society TI has identified seven overall objectives: SO1: Protect the publics resources To build more prosperous societies, our public resources need to be protected and mobilized for the common good. SO2: Stop flows of dirty money TI works to close down domestic and international loopholes that allow perpetrators of corruption to hide, launder and enjoy their illegal proceeds. SO3: Secure integrity in politics TI works to promote the integrity of elections and inclusive access to power, as well as foster new approaches where all stakeholders can exert equal influence in an open and transparent way. SO4 Drive integrity in business TI works to elevate the norms of responsible business conduct with like-minded allies committed to anti-corruption, as well as expose the lack of responsibility and integrity amongst powerful business interests that control political levers and resist change. SO5: Pursue enforcement and justice TI works to promote the independence and capacity of oversight and enforcement institutions to put an end to impunity and check new power concentrations. SO6: Expand civic space for accountability Corruption thrives when it faces no opposition from those who are affected by it. TI works with multi-sectoral partners to ensure that activists, journalists and ordinary citizens are enabled and empowered to take action against corruption. SO7: Build community leadership against corruption TI works to nurture and support more leaders across government, business and civil society who understand and adopt values of integrity, accountability and responsible conduct as guiding principles for decision-making.