GOV update Highlights of the 2017 OECD Global Anti-corruption and Integrity Forum
28 April 2017
Corruption: no longer the elephant in the room
It’s not a secret! A growing number of thought leaders, policy makers, and public and private sector actors have made the fight against corruption a clear priority. That good news is reflected in the year-on-year growth of the OECD Global Anti-corruption and Integrity Forum.
This year’s Forum took place in the spirit of “inclusive collaboration”, recognising that corruption affects all countries, sectors, policy communities, and citizens.
It highlighted the fact that so much of the fight against corruption happens outside of the eye of the media, with many unsung heroes taking personal risks to call out corruption when they see it.
In the final analysis, corruption is not about abstract, aggregate numbers, but can be measured in the concrete toll that it takes on tens of millions of individual lives around the world. In the fight against corruption, even with all the laws in the world, there is no substitute for good governance.