Why you want a corruption-resilient organisation
Economic loss
In corruption-prone industries or contexts, up to 30% of the available budget is lost to bribes, kickbacks and speed money. Money, you cannot use anymore to produce your products, render your services or pay your bills.
Mental harm
Beyond financial transactions, there are more, sometimes subtle dimensions of corruption such as clientelism, nepotism, and favouritism. The “payment” does not always need to involve money. It can be done in forms of job offers, gifts, and favours. In certain situations, even sexual favours are asked, for instance to obtain or keep a job or contract - with devastating psychological consequences for the victims.
Reputational decline
Apart from economic and mental harm, corruption also poses a tremendous reputational risk for your organisation and brand. Be it by the behaviour within your own organisations or by third parties you contracted.
In short: Corruption drives up costs, lowers quality, and harms people. It creates an environment where trust and reputation erodes, performance drops, and people no longer feel safe.
The good news is that there are effective ways to make your organisation corruption-resilient. The key lies in corruption prevention - and in participation.
My offers to your organisation
I offer you an effective approach, consisting of 3 modules. Depending on your needs, the modules can be contracted separately or combined as an all-inclusive package.
1.
Awareness-raising Workshop
Increasing corruption
awareness within your team
Corruption prevention works best when you involve your team and start addressing the issue openly: Over the past years, I have mastered ways to “break the ice” and make it possible to talk about corruption and its effects - without any weirdness or shame.
2.
Risk Assessment & Mitigation Sessions
Assessing and minimising corruption risks in your work processes
Your team members and I analyse in which of your processes corruption risks are high and how corruption could occur. Based on the analysis, we prioritise risks, develop specific risk mitigation measures and implement the measures one by one.
3.
Team- & Leadership Support
Enabling and nurturing a corruption-resilient culture in your organisation
I support your team in developing a shared code-of-conduct, adapted to your organisation’s realities. In addition, I provide one-time or continuous leadership advice on how you can enable and nurture a corruption-resilient culture in your organisation.
The approach embodies elements of risk management, change management, anti-corruption principles, as well as organisational culture, leadership and team development. It combines them into a well-rounded, holistic, and versatile package, which can be adapted to any organisation, context, or scale.
With many years of experience in all of these fields, I am in the perfect position to accompany your organisation towards the next level of corruption resilience.
What makes my approach so effective
Since 2016, I have regularly worked in the field of anti-corruption. I understood that most of the available advice around anti-corruption is too academic. It is also too far away from the realities of organisations and lacks ideas for implementing corruption prevention measures in a way that is both: helpful and manageable. Some advice is only one-dimensional or designed as a box-ticking exercise. Other approaches are purely top-down and do not value the vast insights of your team. All this makes them unsustainable in the mid- and long term.
My approach to corruption prevention is very much down-to-earth, participatory, and results-based. It let’s you tackle the topic without having to sacrifice your operational work. I will deeply tap into your team’s knowledge of your industry and work processes. This creates ownership and change energy within the team and enables solutions which stand the test of everyday life.
Risk prioritisation will help us not to get overwhelmed by endless measures. We will focus on those measures which actually make a change.
Key references
Conducting various awareness-raising workshops, process-based corruption risk assessments and elaborating mitigation measures for GIZ projects and multiple country offices. Sectors: Mining, Water, Education, Agriculture, Real Estate, Construction, Financial Governance, Local Governance
Benin / DRC / Zambia / Madagascar / Iraq, 2016-2022, GIZ GmbHConducting a training series and continuous coaching on participatory corruption prevention for 16 agents of the National Anti-Corruption Office (BIANCO) and elaborating a practitioners’ guide
Madagascar, 2019-2020, BIANCOConducting an awareness-raising workshop, a corruption risk assessment for typical processes in the film sector and elaborating a hands-on corruption prevention guide for film production companies
Kenia, 2021-2022, Some Fine Day Pix gGmbHConducting a corruption risk assessment for typical processes in he film sector and elaborating a hands-on corruption prevention guide for governance bodies and film production companies
Rwanda, 2024-2025, Rwandan Development Board / Rwandan Film Office
Talk to me and receive a non-binding quote
Book a Discovery Call and talk to me about your challenges. I’d be happy to prepare a non-binding quote for you - no strings attached. You’re free to review it and decide what works best for you, with no pressure or obligation.