Corruption Resilient Organisations
If corruption takes root, your organisation's reputation, mission, and people are at risk.
I help organisations build teams, cultures, and processes that prevent misconduct. Protecting your reputation, your employees, and your mission.
You're facing one (or more) of these situations:
Corruption-Prone Context
You operate in an industry or region where corruption is endemic. Bribes, kickbacks, nepotism, and favoritism are normalised. You know your organisation is vulnerable, but you're not sure how to address it without alienating staff or creating a culture of suspicion.
Post-Scandal Recovery
A corruption incident occurred within your organisation or involving a partner/contractor. Investors, donors, stakeholders, or the public lost trust. You need to rebuild integrity, demonstrate accountability, and prevent it from happening again.
Donor or Funder Pressure
Your funders (donors, investors, government agencies) are demanding stronger anti-corruption measures. You need to demonstrate compliance, but generic tick-box approaches don't address the real risks in your specific operations.
Preventive Approach
You haven't had a corruption incident yet. And you want to keep it that way. You recognise that prevention is cheaper and more effective than crisis response, but you don't know where to start or how to make it practical (not bureaucratic).
What happens when corruption occurs?
Economic Loss
In corruption-prone industries or contexts, up to 30% of available budgets are 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 subtle dimensions of corruption: clientelism, nepotism, favouritism. The "payment" can be job offers, gifts, favours - even sexual favours to obtain or keep a job or contract. This creates devastating psychological consequences for victims.Reputational Destruction
Corruption poses a tremendous reputational risk for your organisation and brand. Whether it's behaviour within your own organisation or by third parties you contracted. One scandal can destroy decades of trust.Mission Failure
For NGOs and international organisations: corruption means funds don't reach beneficiaries, projects fail, and your mission is compromised.
In short: Corruption drives up costs, lowers quality, and harms people. It creates an environment where trust and reputation erode, performance drops, and people no longer feel safe.
How I help organisations become corruption-resilient
I don't offer generic compliance training or tick-box exercises. I use a participatory, down-to-earth, results-based approach that embodies risk management, anti-corruption principles, organisational culture, leadership, and team development, combined into a holistic package adapted to your specific organisation, context, and scale.
What this looks like:
Module 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.
→ Outcome:
Team members understand corruption risks and feel empowered to address them
→ Format:
Interactive workshop (half-day to full-day)
→ Investment:
Custom to your needs
Module 2
Risk Assessment & Mitigation Sessions
Assessing and minimising corruption risks in your work processes
Your team members and I analyse which of your processes have high corruption risks and how corruption could occur. Based on the analysis, we prioritise risks, develop specific mitigation measures, and implement them one by one.
→ Outcome:
Clear understanding of your highest-risk processes and practical measures to address them
→ Format:
Facilitated sessions + implementation support
→ Timeline:
Weeks to months depending on scope
→ Investment:
Custom to your needs
Module 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.
→ Outcome:
Sustainable culture where integrity is stronger than temptation
→ Format:
Workshops, leadership coaching, ongoing advisory
→ Investment:
Custom to your needs
Flexible engagement: Modules can be contracted separately or combined as an all-inclusive package, depending on your needs.
What makes my approach effective
Participatory, not top-down
I 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 that stand the test of everyday life.
Results-based, not box-ticking
Most anti-corruption advice is too academic, one-dimensional, or designed as compliance exercises. My approach is down-to-earth and focused on what actually makes a difference in your operations.
Risk-prioritised, not overwhelming
We focus on the measures that actually create change, not endless protocols that nobody follows. You can tackle corruption prevention without sacrificing your operational work.
Proven across sectors and contexts
Since 2016, I've worked regularly in anti-corruption across multiple industries and countries. From film production to mining to public administration. I understand how corruption manifests in different sectors and how to address it practically.
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 the 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
This is right for you if:
You're an organisation operating in corruption-prone contexts and need to protect your reputation, maintain trust, and ensure mission impact
You're a government agency or public sector organisation accountable to taxpayers and need to demonstrate integrity while delivering public services
You're a regulated industry (finance, healthcare, construction, extractives) where compliance failures create legal, financial, and reputational risk
You're a company expanding internationally into markets where corruption is endemic and you need practical strategies to maintain ethical standards
You're a foundation, NGO or philanthropic organisation managing grants and partnerships where corruption could undermine your mission
Let's discuss your corruption prevention needs
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FAQs
Q: How is this different from compliance training?
A: Compliance training is often generic, one-size-fits-all, and focused on legal box-ticking. My approach is participatory: We analyse your specific processes, involve your team, and develop measures that work in your context. It's about building culture, not just checking boxes.
Q: Will this work in our context? Corruption is deeply embedded here.
A: That's exactly where this approach is most valuable. I've worked in highly corrupt contexts and sectors The key is making prevention practical and adapted to the context, not imposing academic compliance models that don't fit realities on the ground.
Q: How long does this take?
A: It varies. A single awareness-raising workshop can be completed in a day. A full risk assessment usually several weeks. And implementing a mitigation program typically 3-6 months depending on organisational size and complexity. We design the timeline based on your needs and capacity. And we prioritise processes with the highest corruption risks.
Q: Can you guarantee our organization will be corruption-free?
A: No one can guarantee that. Corruption is ultimately about individual choices. What I can help you do is build systems, cultures, and awareness that make corruption difficult and create accountability when it does occur. Prevention dramatically reduces risk, but it's ongoing work.
Q: Do you work remotely or on-site?
A: Both. Some work (like the awareness raising workshops) is most effective on-site. Other elements (process risk assessments, leadership coaching, follow-up sessions) can be done virtually. I've delivered this across multiple countries in various formats: Completely on-site, completely virtual, and a mix of both.