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CSR - How Anti-corruption and transparency. Spanish Global Compact Network.

January 19, 2011. Pablo Pastor.

The English Global Compact Network, presented the Toolkit for risk management and deployment tools in the fight against corruption and promoting transparency .

In preparing this guide have worked with the English Global Compact Network, entities Abertis, Acciona, BBVA, CAM, Cofides, Fundación Carolina, Banco de Santander, Iberdrola, IE Business School, Javierre, MITC, Siemens and Transparency International.

The fight against corruption, is the principle No. 10 Global Compact, and one of the most difficult presented by institutions when reporting on their progress reports.

In the words of Juan de la Mota , President of the English Global Compact Network, corruption is not only affects developing countries, but the reality of many companies in developed countries, is faced every day in many situations of corruption in their overseas operations.

To Joaquín Garralda, Secretary to the English Global Compact Network, when it comes to corruption, as if from a dense fog can not see much further. Companies and governments speak of corruption with euphemisms such as "commission" instead of "extortion" or "bribery." Move cautiously in this area at the time to report their experiences. There is a lack of transparency because it is a sensitive issue. In fact, la prueba de ello es que tuvo que hacerse una convención especial, posterior al acuerdo de los otros 9 principios, para incluir este principio dentro de los 10 principios del Pacto Mundial.

Isabel Garro , Directora de la Red Española del Pacto Mundial, presentó la guía y mostró como usarla.

La guía se compone de dos apartados:

- un documento técnico en el que se presentan los riesgos y las oportunidades de su gestión, los conceptos englobados como corrupción, la legislación nacional e internacional al efecto y ejemplos de buenas prácticas.

- A practical guide structured as a set. This is a wheel in which three variables in terms of "country risk", "risk of the sector" and "customer risk" and classified as high, moderate or low. Thus, each organization may apply to you based on these three variables. Accordingly, 18 possibilities arise that are structured in 18 different models.

The guide presents a case study to address each different model of management, following the process of the wheel of continuous improvement.

These are some of the points made in the panel discussion of the presentation:

Jesus Lizcano (Transparency International): Transparency is the best antidote against corruption. In the fight against corruption is crawling, but progress. There is more interest on CSR than 10 years ago. Some companies sign integrity pacts between them when they go to competitions. Should increase in reported cases and the protection of complainants anonymous. You should create channels that allow companies to pursue the complaint without control over which may affect them. These complaints must be addressed if there is a base and supporting evidence.

Beatriz Alonso (BBVA): Companies should develop a code of ethical conduct and not just publish, but also train employees on it. This code must be verifiable tools to measure progress and results. Must exist in the channel companies that promote the possibility of making allegations of corruption.

Antonio Javierre (Javierre): A good measure to comply with your ethical code, is not only making it known to employees, but also make it public in a media outlet to be in the public domain and also force you to comply. It must also train employees in the code. To advance, you must report cases of corruption when evidence is available.

Cristina Barrero (Ministry of Industry Trade and Tourism): In the OECD there are some guidelines that are the counterpart of the principles of Global Compact States. These lines also include a convention to combat corruption in the foreign public official for international transactions. The idea is to look at the companies of one country operating in another country at risk, in terms of corruption and bribery. Recently, there has been to introduce criminal liability (and not just administrative) in the reform of our criminal code to comply with the Convention. In contrast, the English government on corruption has a low risk. It is starting to notice an improvement in countries such as China, India or Russia, who recently refused to talk openly about these issues.

Isabel Roser (Fundación Carolina): Corruption adversely affects developing countries. ECODES has prepared a report showing that English companies operating in Latin American countries are better at fighting corruption, but much remains to be done.

Regina Pall (Cofides): Cofides financed English companies that want to operate abroad. The Guide narrows, bounds and very well defined which are acts of corruption. There is an economic crime linked to corruption. Corruption has also other costs associated with investment, such additional costs by paying bribes, which are less competitive projects. It also affects the long run companies that do not know how much of a contest to win this derivative to its good performance, and that part is motivated by the same bribe. Now, all companies applying for funding must sign a clause linked to the OECD convention on corruption. Existe una mayor aceptación a la lucha contra la corrupción en las empresas, pero faltan herramientas de medición que permitan comprobar los avances.

Para más información sobre esta Guía: http://www.pactomundial.org/