Global Forum V on Fighting Corruption and safeguarding integrity

1. Global Forum V on Fighting Corruption and safeguarding integrity Setting the stage for non-state actorsPRIVATE INTEREST POLITICS Soji ApampaThe Convention on Business Integrity

2. ETHICS FRAMEWORK

3. POWER OF CONTEXT

4. MILITARY BUSINESS GOVT & POLITICS CIVIL SOCIETY POWER OF CONTEXT • Structure of Society • How Wealth is Held and Distributed • The Role of Public Office • Complex Relationships, Alliances, Pacts & Networks

5. WEALTH BUSINESS? PVT. INTERESTS CENTRE POWER POLITICS? PACTS RE-ELECTED SURVIVAL DELIVER A PATRONAGE SYSTEM

6. SOME VULNERABLE RELATIONSHIPS • Political Ties of Ex or Serving • Politicians • Civil Servants • Servicemen • Judicial Officers • Expert Advisers/Assistants to Government • Other Ties • Family Ties • School Ties • Fraternities & Spiritual Ties • Social Ties • Ethnic Ties • Gifts & Donations

7. SOME VULNERABLE TRANSACTIONS • Provisioning/Procurement • Asset Acquisition/Disposal • Appointments/Recruitments • Licensing/Accreditations/Certifications • Resource Allocation/Control/Management • Adjudications/Exercise of Judicial Powers • Mergers & Acquisitions/Consolidation

8. SOME VULNERABLE SECTORS OF SOCIETY • Government • Financial Services • Energy: Power • Energy: Oil & Gas • Defense • Engineering & Construction • Solid Minerals – Extractive Industries • Customs/Excise & Immigration

9. GOVERNANCE • Covers those institutional arrangements through which Power, authority and influence are wielded to define and achieve public policy objectives and ensure continuity.

10. Scenario #1: Good GOVERNANCE • Where the • Sovereignty belongs to the people from whom government derives all its power and authority • Security and welfare of the people is the primary purpose of government • Sustained improvements in the standards of living of the people (the role of effective & efficient service delivery) • Poverty reduction (income & other) • Equity, justice & fairness • Sustainability for future generations • Participation by the people in their government is always ensured

11. I: Non-State Actors Observed In • Issue Advocacy • Coalition Building • Mass Exercise of the Watchdog Initiative to Ensure Public Accountability

12. Scenario #2: Poor GOVERNANCE • Where there exists • Arbitrary policy making • Unaccountable bureaucracies • Un-enforced or unjust legal systems • The abuse of executive power • A civil society unengaged in public life • Widespread corruption

13. II: Non-State Actors Observed In • Issue Advocacy • Coalition Building • Exercise of immense financial and political power to ensure continued state capture

14. KEY MOTIVATORS MARKET, CONSUMERS WORKFORCE, SUPPLY CHAIN TRADE & INVESTMENT

15. WORKING DEFINITIONS OF CORRUPTION • Bottlenecks • The creation/use or attempt to create/use bottlenecks in any system for private profit or personal gain • Perversions • The perversion or attempt to pervert/distort the legal or right process within an entity for private profit or personal gain

16. SOLUTIONS • Better governance • Collective action on the part of other non-state actors • Demand change • Establish new economic linkages • Re-positioning the role of the state • Diversification of the economy • Reduction of the power and influence of public office over economic life of average citizen

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