Developing an Effective Anti-Corruption ProgramPractical Tools for Myanmar Businesses

Vicky BowmanDirector, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Businesss

Six Step Anti-Corruption Programme

Transparency International's Business Integrity Toolkit is a user-friendly six step process for building an effective corporate anti-corruption programme.

1. Commit to an anti-corruption programme ‘from the top’

4. Act on the plan

5. Monitor controls and progress

6. Report internally and externally on the programme

3. Plan the anti-corruption programme

2. Assess the current status and risk environment

Step One: Commit The MCRB has translated Transparency

International’s Business Principles for Countering Bribery for SMEs.

The Business Principles apply both to bribery of public officials and to business-to-business transactions.

They provide SMEs with practical guidelines regarding topics such as:

Scope: Areas that should be addressed.

Implementation: Minimum implementation requirements.

The Business Principles are not only relevant in the Commit phase, but apply throughout all other phases of the Business Integrity Toolkit.

Six Step Anti-Corruption Programme

Six Step Anti-Corruption Programme

2. Assess the current status and risk environment

Before a business develops and implements its anti-corruption programme, it conducts a risk assessment.

The aim of the risk assessment is to identify areas of greatest inherent risk (for example along geographic or functional lines) and evaluate the effectiveness of existing risk-mitigating measures.

As a result, the business can prioritize and allocate resources appropriately to the areas of greatest risk.

Get your management team to think through the different situations the business faces where bribery might be a risk……IBE Toolkit

Step Two: Assess…

Tools for Addressing CorruptionIBE’s “Say No Toolkit”

http://www.saynotoolkit.net/app/

Tools for Addressing CorruptionIBE’s “Say No Toolkit”

oThe FREE “Say No Toolkit” can help you determine whether an activity you have encountered is an instance of corruption.oYou can install it on a phone or iPad

http://www.saynotoolkit.net/app/oYou anonymously answer a few short questions

about the situation you have encountered.oThe toolkit offers an analysis of the situation and

advice on how to address it.oCurrently in English, we are considering whether

to translate it into Burmese

http://www.saynotoolkit.net/app/

http://www.saynotoolkit.net/app/

http://www.saynotoolkit.net/app/

www.mcrb.org.mmmyanmar.responsible.business

Thank You!