In a memorable initiative, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) developed, in 2007, the Best Practices in the Fight Against Corruption project, of which several countries took part, including Brazil.
This article aims to list the main contributions of some of the participant countries, including Brazil, which provided interesting suggestions to encourage and optimize the fight against corruption:
| COUNTRY | SUGGESTIONS |
| 1. Germany | (i) Federal Government Directive concerning the prevention of corruption in the federal administration, (ii) adoption of contractual provisions against corruption, (iii) identification and analysis of areas of activity especially vulnerable to corruption, (iv) prior assessment, according to specific criteria, of public agents who occupy positions that are more vulnerable to corruption, (v) appointment of a contact person to receive reports of corruption, (vi) risk analysis shall be discussed with the evaluated body, (vii) creation of regulations on contributions from the private sector to public agents in the form of sponsoring, donations and gifts. |
| 2. Australia | (i) Constitutional safeguards, (ii) accountability and transparency, (iii) criminalization of corruption, and (iv) international cooperation and technical assistance. |
| 3. Azerbaijan | (i) Ensuring human and civil rights and freedoms, (ii) systematic fight against corruption, (iii) conforming the legislation to international principles and (iv) establishing specialized anti-corruption bodies and ensuring their activity. |
| 4. Brazil | Transparency Portal. |
| 5. Canada | (I) Financial administration act, (ii) Office of public service values and ethics, (iii) values and ethics code for the public service, and (iv) public servants disclosure protection act. |
| 5. China | (i) Ensure the existence of a body that prevents corruption by implementing policies and disseminating knowledge about preventing corruption, (ii) approval of an anti-money laundering law, (iii) adoption of self-disciplinary norms for private sector managers, establishing disciplinary measures and promoting ethics in business, (iv) introduction on ethics and integrity as subjects in primary education, (v) reviewing and increasing penalties to repress corruption, (vi) international cooperation and (vii) recovery of corruption assets. |
| 6. Guatemala | (i) Public accountability, in the first three months of each year, referring to the previous year, (ii) computerization of processes to ensure transparency, (iii) standardization of public notices for public contracts bidding announcements, and (iv) registration of suppliers and public purchases through contracts. |
| 7. Hungary | Review of the Advisory Board for the Public Life Free from Corruption. |
| 8. Latvia | (i) Independent and specialized anti-corruption body, (ii) prevention of conflict of interest through effective enforcement and training, (iii) enforcement of rules on parties financing, (iv) public reporting system, and (v) effective and independent investigations. |
| 9. Mexico | Adoption of the government e-procurement system – Compr@net. |
| 10. Moldova | Execution of the National Anti-corruption Strategy and Action Plan: (i) Elaboration of drafts of normative acts for the facilitation of prevention and fight against corruption, (ii) consolidation of the capacities of all institutions responsible for the enforcement of criminal legislation, (iii) raising the efficiency of the institutional system, (iv) prevention of corruption in the public administration, (v) anti-corruptive education of public officers, (vi) optimization of controls and collaboration with law enforcement authorities, (vii) assurance of transparency in the public sector, and (viii) implementation of international instruments of the EU, CoE, UN, OECD, etc. |
| 11. Dominican Republic | (i) Central body specialized in the fight against corruption, (ii) strategic plan for ethics, prevention and sanctioning of corruption and (iii) strengthening of the political party system and (iv) strengthening and specialization of the Prosecution Office. |
| 12. Switzerland | (i) Prevention of corruption: tackling the problem at its source via good governance programs, (ii) the names of bank clients and the origin of assets must be known, (iii) banks and other financial intermediaries are required to report all suspicious transactions to the national Reporting Center for Money Laundering (MROS) and block the account immediately in event of suspicious movements, (iv) when legal assistance is requested, Switzerland will provide the requesting State with details of the accounts concerned and (v) restitution of stolen or fraudulently acquired assets is the main priority. |
