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Anti-corruption Collective Action Award for Practitioners

Have you or your organization participated in an innovative anti-corruption program effort that involved other stakeholders?

The World Bank Institute and partners invited anti-corruption practitioners from the public, private, and civil sectors to participate in a competition on multi-stakeholder anti-corruption efforts, known as Collective Action.

Our aims are to highlight the constructive role that the private sector can play in fighting corruption, while sharing lessons learned with other practitioners. We would like to identify ideas that are unprecedented in the field of multi-stakeholder anti-corruption efforts, based on your submitted case studies.

This competition is linked to the Executive Development Program: "Fighting Corruption through Collective Action in Today’s Competitive Marketplaces" which will be held in Washington DC at the World Bank Head Quarters from June 8 to June 11, 2009.

Guidelines

Competition is closed - Winners have been announced

Eligibility Criteria:

Practitioners eligible to participate are representatives of companies, business associations, government agencies, donors, academic institutions, think tanks, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and individual entrepreneurs.

Topic:

To enter the competition participants had to fill out the Word document form MS-Word template with their case study and submit it via e-mail.

Awards

Sponsored by the Belgian government, the main prizes for the competitions are:

1st prize:
  • Invitation to the Word Bank Head Quarters in Washington DC for the winner and an additional representative from the winner's organization. The invitations cover participation, travel and stay expenses in the Anti-Corruption Executive Development program.
  • Possible presentation of your initiative during the program and publication of your case study on the World Bank Institute portal.
  • Advice from World Bank and private sector experts on how to strengthen your project.
2nd prize:
  • Invitation for one person to the Word Bank Head Quarters in Washington DC. The invitation covers participation, travel and stay expenses to the Anti-Corruption Executive Development program.
  • Possible presentation of your initiative during the program and publication of your case study on the World Bank Institute portal.

3rd prize:

  • Invitation for one person to the Word Bank Head Quarters in Washington DC. The invitation covers participation, travel and stay expenses to the Anti-Corruption Executive Development program.
  • Possible presentation of your initiative during the program and publication of your case study on the World Bank Institute portal.

4th prize:

  • Invitation for one person to the Word Bank Head Quarters in Washington DC. The invitation covers participation, travel and stay expenses to the Anti-Corruption Executive Development program.
  • Possible presentation of your initiative during the program and publication of your case study on the World Bank Institute portal.

Note: Group submissions are allowed. Please keep in mind that prizes are restricted to one or two persons depending on the prize.

Evaluation

A jury comprising of World Bank staff and partners of the World Bank selects the winner. Winner will be announced on May 15, 2009. The decision of the jury is final and is not subject to an appeal.

Evaluation Criteria

There are three main criteria: results and impact, replicability, and innovation. We evaluate according to the effectiveness and impact of collective action on society and businesses that are involved in the project. The projects must have the potential to be replicated in other countries or business sectors and they must present non-conventional approaches to achieving the result of no corruption.