The forum will be organized with WIN partners, including RRASCA (Regional Network for Water and Sanitation in Central America), FANCA (Fresh Water Action Network Central America), the Regional Committee of Alianza por el Agua and GWP (Global Water Partnership) Central America.

The main theme of the Regional Forum is Water Integrity (WI) and what the issue looks like in the Central American region. During the forum, an analysis of the state of integrity in the water sector in the (Spanish speaking) Central American countries will be presented and discussed. Cases on good practices of anti-corruption, transparency and accountability work in the region (and other parts of the world) will also be presented.

Please click for the Policy Brief on “Transparencia e integridad en la gestión del agua- estrategias para la incidencia” (in Spanish). This newly published document can serve as a first introductory document to corruption in the water sector from an IRWM (Integrated Water Resources Management) point of view.

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1er Foro Regional de Transparencia e Integridad del Sector de Agua en Centroamérica, 16 al 18 de febrero 2011, San Salvador El Salvador

La Red de Integridad del Agua- WIN, con sus socios en la región Centroamericana, RRASCA (Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento Centroamérica) FANCA (Fresh Water Action Network Centroamérica), GWP América Central y el Comité Regional de Alianza por el Agua, entre otros, está organizando el 1er Foro Regional de Transparencia e Integridad del sector de Agua en Centroamérica.

El tema principal del Foro Regional es el tema de la integridad del agua y la situación en el sector del agua en la región centroamericana. Durante el foro se va a presentar un análisis sistemático del estado de la integridad en el sector en los países hispanohablantes en Centroamérica. Casos sobre buenas prácticas de lucha contra la corrupción, para mejor la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas en la región (y otras partes del mundo) serán presentados durante el segundo día.

El Policy Brief sobre “Transparencia e integridad en la gestión del agua- estrategias para la incidencia” es un nuevo documento de WIN que puede servir como una primera introducción a la corrupción desde un punto de vista de GIRH (Gestión Integrada de los recursos Hídricos).

Access to the 2011 NATO Building Integrity Conference website is restricted, and visitors must enter through the SIGN-IN page using the password provided in your invitation letter. After sign-in, visitors will be able to register for the conference and view all the information available for the conference, taking place 23-25 February in Monterey, California.

Contact Page: http://www.bi2011.org/contact/

On March 31-April 1 in Washington DC, key editors and journalists from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones will lead discussions on the most important issues facing compliance professionals today with industry experts, policy influencers and more than 50 senior counsel, ethics and compliance officers from top multinational corporations.

Meet senior executives and compliance officers from (click here for full speaker roster):

• American Express
• BP America
• CalSTRS
• CBI
• Eli Lilly & Company
• General Electric
• Google
• Hitachi Data Systems

• MasterCard Worldwide
• Medtronic Inc.
• News Corporation
• Novartis Biosciences S.A.
• Siemens AG
• Symantec
• Weatherford International
• And many more…

Attendees will be armed with the knowledge to help ensure that their organizations avoid huge financial penalties, become the subject of reputation-crippling headlines, or risk time, resources and manpower in fighting off allegations of wrongdoing. More specifically, the event will give corporate officials insight on how to deal with such things as (click here to view the full program page):

• A look at current and future FCPA enforcement policies, and what you can do to avoid being investigated
• The whistleblower feature in the Dodd-Frank Act and the new anti-bribery regulations in the UK
• How to prevent the release and unauthorized use of data — both internal corporate research and customer information
• Doing business successfully and safely in such locales as China, Brazil and Africa
• What it takes to keep companies from ending up in the middle of insider trading schemes
• And much, much more…

For full agenda details visit the GCS website or call customer service at 212-416-2951.

ESF North America 2011 provides you with the opportunity to network with industry leaders and learn how they successfully leveraged the power of sustainability to maximize business value through a series of presentations, panel and roundtable discussions, interactive workshops and collaborative lab sessions.

Participants will get answers to the following questions:

• What sustainability strategies can we implement today to achieve progress tomorrow?
• How can our initiatives be engineered to deliver at a greater level of impact?
• How do we address the systemic issues at the root of many of sustainability’s intractable problems?
• How can collaborative frameworks be restructured for greater effectiveness?
• Which holistic yet targeted responses fulfill both short and long-term goals?

You will also learn about:

• New metrics for measuring your supply chain sustainability footprint
• Incentivizing suppliers to comply with labor standards
• Moving the labor standards agenda forward
• Responding to multi-stakeholder demand for improved environmental performance
• New methods for correlating factory monitoring data and business value

Transparency International invites you to a presentation on 'Corruption in the International Financial System: How To Spot It, How To Stop It'. This event is led by Mr Raymond Baker, Director of Global Financial Integrity. The presentation will be followed by discussion and refreshments.

This summit series enjoys the support and participation of the multi-national and regional business community, prominent government departments, anti-corruption commissions and the international community working in the fraud risk management and anti-corruption arena. A unique learning format – case studies, typically inaccessible keynote speakers, panel discussions, thought leadership exercises, streamed workshops, and thematic dedicated networking activities - make this the ideal opportunity for directors of internal audit, directors of fraud risk / prevention / investigations, security directors, risk compliance units & anti-corruption commissions.

• Day 1: Strategic approach to fighting corruption: landscapes, trends, bsuiness, ethics& governance
• Day 2: Practical detection, investigation, prevetion& litigation of fraud, corruption& financial crime
• Day 3: Catastrophic fraud risk& reputation, hotlines& fraus forensics, fraud& anti-corruption thought- leadership roundtable

• Join us next Thursday 7 April for a special screening of Justice for Sergei: a documentary about the life of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who uncovered the largest tax fraud in Russian history and agreed to testify against the government officials implicated in the case. He refused to withdraw his testimony, even when imprisoned on charges of conspiracy and his health deteriorated. Magnitsky died in custody in November 2009 after medical treatment was allegedly withheld. The film serves as a commentary on the wider corruption problems facing Russia, a country where 53 percent of people believe corruption is getting worse, and the police and public officials are seen as the most corrupt institutions, according to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer.
• The film will be introduced by William Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management. Hermitage was the target of the tax fraud that was the focus of Magnitsky’s investigation.During the ten years he spent in Russia and following his expulsion by the government in 2005, Browder has been an outspoken advocate for better corporate governance and has been instrumental in calling for those responsible for Magnitsky’s death to be brought to justice.

Watch the trailer for Justice for Sergei

Read about the posthumous Integrity Award Magnitsky received last year

Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start

Cost: This is a free event, but places are strictly limited.

RSVP: Please email press@transparency.org by Wednesday 6 April to confirm your attendance.

Now in its 25th successful year, American Conference Institute’s National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act will once again provide advanced and practical insights on the latest FCPA enforcement cases, global anti-corruption compliance strategies and unparalleled networking opportunities. The 2011 agenda features once again an exceptional line up of senior US and foreign government officials.

Benefit from new panel sessions, including:

• Standards and Global Structures for Anti-Corruption Compliance Programs – featuring in-house perspectives from
  • Carrie J. Di Santo, Vice President and Global Chief Compliance Officer, Aon Corporation
  • Mark L. Koczela, Associate General Counsel,
    Johnson Controls
  • Robert W. Werner, Managing Director and Assistant General Counsel, Business Intelligence Group,
    Goldman Sachs

• Responding to the SEC’s Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program
• Managing and Responding to an FCPA Crisis: What to Do in the First 2 Weeks
• Disclosing an FCPA Issue to the Government
• Preparing for UK Bribery Act Enforcement
• Collecting, Managing and Preserving Electronic Documents
  in FCPA Investigations
• Testing your Global FCPA Compliance Systems:
  How to Implement Effective Compliance Assessments
  to Probe Weak Spots
• How to Represent Individuals in FCPA Investigations

Complete your experience by selecting one, two, three or four of ACI’s acclaimed working sessions:

• A -The Fundamentals of FCPA Compliance: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Demystified
• B- Gifts, Entertainment & Hospitality in High Risk Markets – A Practical Guide on What you Can, and Can’t Do
• C -Project Plan for FCPA Internal Investigations: A Complete Guide on How to Set up, Manage and Conduct Internal Investigations into Bribery Allegations
• D -Vetting Third Party: How to Define and Execute Systematic, Risk-Based Third-Party Due Diligence for FCPA Compliance

Be sure to register early by calling 1-888-224-2480, by faxing your registration form to 1-877-927-1563 or by registering online at www.FCPAconference.com

The Inter-Agency Working Group for Disaster Preparedness (IAWG), Transparency International Kenya and Lutheran World Federation are pleased to invite you to their joint event on Promoting Accountability in the Humanitarian Sector.
The event will encompass the launch of the new Transparency International pocket handbook; Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations, the launch of the revised Sphere Project Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response as part of the global release and the IAWG Annual General Meeting.
Date: 14th April 2011
Time: 08:30 am – 13:00 pm (followed by lunch)
Venue: Hotel Southern Sun (former Holiday Inn, Westlands, Nairobi)
Speakers:

• H.E Margit Hellwig- Boette , German Ambassador to Kenya
• M. Aeneas Chuma UN Resident Representative
• Ms Rachel Mbai Transparency International Kenya Vice Chair
• Ms Roslyn Hees , Senior Advisor & co author of the handbook, Transparency International
• IAWG Chairs and Sub-working-groups
• Members of the Sphere learning strategy core team

Kindly send RSVP as soon as possible to assist with the arrangements to: admin@iawg-africa.org or iawg_admin@wvi.org

With the support of the Brazilian government and Strategic Partners, the World Economic Forum will convene 500 of the most prominent leaders from Latin America and other parts of the world on 27-29 April 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to build on the success of the 2010 World Economic Forum on Latin America in Cartagena,Colombia.

The Forum will discuss questions such as:

• How can infrastructure be expanded, innovation facilitated and logistics modernized to further promote national and regional competitiveness?
• How can Latin America promote security as a democratic value, eradicating crime and enforcing the rule of law?
• How can the region enhance environmental sustainability across the value chain?
• How can Latin America develop its potential to become the world's supplier of food, energy and oxygen?
• How can business contribute to Latin America’s ongoing growth and progress?

Sessions will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation in
Portuguese and Spanish in most sessions.

Be sure to register for this event before 4 April 2011.

Basic information can be found on our website:
www.weforum.org/LatinAmerica2011.
Upon registration, you will receive access to the meeting’s online
private area.

On April 27-28, the India Habitat Centre, Delhi, will be a conclave of ideas and aspirations and a converging of those who wish to see and contribute to shaping, a vibrant India free from the shackles of corruption.

Highlights from the programme include:

• FOUR PILLARS OF DEMOCRACY: BOON AND BANE – A Panel Discussion: Systemic efficiencies and deficiencies -- can we re-invent our democratic governance?
• INNOVATION IN GOVERNANCE…DESIGNING TO TRANSFORM - Can Design principles and radical ‘hybrid-thinking’ methodologies be adopted for innovation in the realm of governance in India?
• ‘STOLEN ASSETS RECOVERY’ and UNCAC (United Nations Convention Against Corruption) – Global Thoughts, Local Actions
• ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS AND THEIR RECOVERY- Are there lessons from success stories of asset recovery efforts in other geographies?

To see the full programme please visit the Freedom from Corruption website.

Please register for the event until April 24th here.

We trust that our coming together with a shared sensibility for change will help us evolve into a collaborative community for sustained engagement and action across all constituencies, beyond this convention. We hope you’ll walk with us and be a part of this journey!

What do the CEOs from PepsiCo, Panasonic, Innocent Drinks, Alliance Boots, Johnson Matthey, Seventh Generation and Kraft Foods have in common? They will all be sharing best practice on leadership in responsible business and sustainability at the 10th annual Responsible Business Summit 2011. This is the biggest event of this type in Europe all year.The speaker line-up includes 60+ experts from major companies in the world. Have a look here for the full list. You can have a look at the 20+ workshops available over the two days here. 400+ attendees are expected - over 60% of whom are director-level and above. The brochure is out now. You can download a copy here.

When President Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan in his West Point speech in December 2009, he also made it clear that he had plans to begin a transition process to Afghan leadership by July 2011. In order to allow transition to be effective, President Karzai and the international community will have to demonstrate success not only in security provision and the development of the Afghan National Security Forces, but also on broader issues such as building a capable and legitimate government, progress on development, governance, managing crime and countering corruption.

RUSI, Transparency International UK and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung co-organised three seminars that were designed to explore the challenges the international community faces on governance, development and corruption issues in Afghanistan. The ultimate aim was to contribute to the process of defining the necessary steps forward to make transition to Afghan leadership and control possible. The seminars brought together Afghanistan experts, government officials from Afghanistan, NATO countries and representatives from other key players in Kabul. The result of this project is the strategy paper "Afghanistan in transition: Reshaping priorities for 2015 and beyond" that will be presented in Berlin, Kabul and London.

Time: 11:00-12:30

Corruption in climate governance – why is it an issue for Europe? Transparency International, in cooperation with the European Policy Centre (EPC), is holding a debate tomorrow to explore this question. The debate will take place at the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels, from 10.00-12.00 on Wednesday 18 May 2011 (registration begins at 9.40!) and coincides with the publication of Transparency International’s new Global Corruption Report: Climate Change.

The promotion of clear rules and compliance mechanisms for mitigation and adaptation is an important part of building effective climate governance. At the same time, successful climate governance in the EU and in the rest of the world requires that major challenges be addressed, including the risk of corruption. Political decision-making, financing, the functioning of carbon markets and access to natural resources are just a few areas facing such a risk.

Some of the questions to be discussed at this Policy Dialogue include: is the European carbon market suffering from weak governance and if so, what are the implications for environment and economy? Given that a European low-carbon economy will be largely built on natural resources that originate from countries characterized by weak governance or corruption, what risks does this pose for Europe? What more could the EU do to promote effective climate governance?

Speakers in the panel include:

• Lisa Elges, Climate Governance Programme Manager at Transparency International
• Mary Veronica Tovšak Pleterski, Director for European and International Carbon Markets at DG Climate Action, European Commission
• Henry Derwent, President and CEO of International Emission Trading Association
• Andrea Pinna, Senior Climate Specialist at the European Investment Bank.

The discussion will be chaired by Josef Janning, EPC Director of Studies.

Those interested in attending are encouraged to RSVP to n.news@epc.eu.

Des Carney, Policy Officer - EU Development

(A discussion of 'Transparency as a guarantor of citizen security in the Americas: Examples from Central America, El Salvador and Colombia')

Panelistas:

• Manfredo Marroquín, Asesor Senior de Transparency International para Centroamérica
• Roberto Rubio Fabián, Director Ejecutivo, FUNDE
• Carlos Dada, Editor, Elfaro
• Elisabeth Ungar, Directora Ejecutiva, Transparencia por Colombia

Moderadora:

• Mercedes De Freitas, Directora Ejecutiva, Transparencia Venezuela

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Hora: 18:30-20:00, 3 de junio 2011

Building on our past successful FCPA conference series, marcus evans invites you to attend the 6th Anti-Corruption & FCPA Compliance Conference. Government officials and Industry leaders from leading organizations operating globally will share best practices, strategies and tools on executing, monitoring and auditing a strong and effective anti-corruption / FCPA compliance program.

Featuring Key Sessions from Leading Compliance Experts Including:

Baker Hughes, Pride International, Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, BNY Mellon, Monsanto, International Paper Company, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, and Many More!

Why Should You Attend

• Learn how to embrace a global anti-corruption compliance program
• Analyze recent regulatory updates and proposals
• Understand best practices in effective due diligence and management of third parties
• Discover ways to monitor and disclose FCPA violations
• Gain insights on how to tackle upcoming regulatory changes and how to best implement updated policies and procedures into your organization
• Identify possible violations by examining recent enforcement against companies for committing corrupt practices

To Register:

Michele Westergaard, 312-540-3000 ext. 6625, Michelew@marcusevansch.com

Website: http://www.marcusevansch.com/TI_FCPA

Brochure: http://bit.ly/gYg93r

marcus evans invites you to attend the Life Sciences Strategies for Anti-Corruption & FCPA Compliance Conference. More than 12 industry leaders and government officials from leading organizations operating globally will share best practices, strategies and tools on overcoming the unique vulnerabilities and risk areas faced by these industries in regards to corruption and FCPA compliance.

Featuring Key Sessions from Leading Compliance Experts Including:

Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Inc., CareFusion, Pfizer Inc., St. Jude Medical, Abbott Laboratories, Biomet, And Many More!

Attending this premiere conference will enable you to:

• Analyze the key provisions of the UK Bribery Bill and the impact on the life sciences industries by Abbott Laboratories
• Identify practical strategies to develop effective global anti-corruption compliance programs from Carefusion
• Assess the challenges of conducting and implementing effective global training programs by Medtronic, Inc.
• Develop robust internal controls for 3rd party due-diligence by Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc.

To Register:

Michele Westergaard, 312-540-3000 ext. 6625, Michelew@marcusevansch.com

Website: http://www.marcusevansch.com/TI_LSFCPA

Brochure: http://bit.ly/hOLi4y

An event for those involved in anti-corruption law including private practitioners, in-house counsel, compliance officers, auditors and law enforcement officials. The conference also provides a valuable opportunity to network with key figures and colleagues within the industry.

Topics include:

• Multijurisdictional enforcement and double jeopardy
• Special session for in-house counsel: Designing and implementing an effective compliance programme
• Q&A session: The UK Bribery Act and guidance
• International organisations and the global anti-corruption agenda
• A changing landscape: Civil claims and asset-recovery in anti-corruption cases
• Prosecutors' forum: Anti-corruption enforcement - trends and precedents
• Case studies: Corporate liability for corruption offences

This year's conference will also once again feature a number of high-profile keynote speakers and commentators including:

• Angel GurriaSecretary General of the OECD, Paris
• Professor Mark PiethChair; OECD Working Group on Bribery, Basel

Attendees will be addressed at lunch on the first day by Fernando Pelaez-Pier (Former IBA President and Special Representative for the IBA/OECD/UNODC Anti-Corruption Strategy for the Legal Profession, Caracas) and Gonzalo Guzman (Senior Staff Lawyer, International Bar Association, London) in relation to the on-going Anti-Corruption Strategy for the Legal Profession.

C5’s Forum on Anti-Corruption, London Edition brings together leading faculty of experienced in-house and private practice lawyers, compliance executives and government officials who will provide the latest strategies to facilitate compliance with anti-corruption laws and mitigate damages should a violation occur. Use this opportunity to benchmark your practices and pick up critical knowledge from the anti-corruption community. You will gain greater industry recognition as you join our group of business leaders who have helped to shape some of our most important industry conferences. This is an outstanding career, business networking and information sharing opportunity.

New This Year

• The UK Bribery Act: Key enforcement priorities and impact of its extraterritorial reach
• New anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance policies implemented by leading multinational companies
• Conducting effective third party risk-based due diligence to control and minimise liability risks when operating in foreign countries
• Managing conflicts arising from multiple and global investigations and achieving negotiated settlements such as plea bargains
• Best practices on how to manage Joint Venture bribery risks

Also get the latest insights on:

• Conducting risk assessments in emerging markets to identify the red flags and your company’s risk exposures
• Establishing effective internal whistle-blowing procedures to develop a reporting culture while managing cultural obstacles
• Determining what level of due diligence is required to uncover potential liabilities in the context of a merger or acquisition

The Transparency International Summer School on Integrity provides students with an opportunity to learn first-hand from professionals working in the anti-corruption field. Participants will learn about the causes of corruption and practical ways in which post-communist countries can become more transparent and accountable. The TI Summer School consists of three teaching modules covering the public sector, the private sector and civic empowerment.

• The public sector module covers abuse of office, nepotism, public procurement and accountability mechanisms for public institutions.
• The private sector module focuses on international anti-corruption mechanisms, corporate reporting standards, media accountability, and corruption in different industry sectors.
• The civic empowerment module addresses the role of citizens in monitoring the activities of the state and explores ways in which people can become involved in the public decision-making process, in reporting corruption, and in anti-corruption activities.

University students will earn 2 ECTS credits upon successful completion of the course. The language of instruction is English.

Scholarships covering transportation, tuition and board expenses are available for students from Armenia, Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine.The application deadline for scholarships is 15 May.

The World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual meeting place for the planet’s most urgent water-related issues. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), it brings together experts, practitioners, decision makers and leaders from around the globe to exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions.

Organised and directed by The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), World Water Week has gained an international reputation as a unique forum for the exchange of views and experiences between scientific, business, policy and civic sectors from around the globe.

The current niche for 2009-2012 is "Responding to Global Changes", which looks at the potential and necessary responses in water policy, management and development to address pervasive and increasingly impacting global changes. The themes within the current niche are:

• 2009: Accessing Water for the Common Good
• 2010: The Water Quality Challenge
• 2011: Water in an Urbanising World
• 2012: Water and Global Food Security (tentative)

Registration for 2011 World Water Week will be open in April/May 2011.

The CIVICUS World Assembly is a major global gathering of civil society organisations, donors and representatives of government, international institutions and business to seek collaborative ways to strengthen the rights of citizens everywhere to exist, express and engage collectively. The 2011 event will be held in Montreal, Canada from 10-12 September.

This year, the event will focus the theme “Civil society and global decision making: Doing it better.” As the complex connections between the myriad concerns of citizens around the world become ever more apparent, it is clear that tackling these challenges – from climate change and development effectiveness to democratic spaces – requires collaboration on an unprecedented scale between North and South, local and global. The 2011 World Assembly, hosted by CIVICUS’ partner, Institut du Nouveau Monde, will use contemporary tools and methodologies to synthesise creative thinking from diverse actors towards evolving ways forward built on shared values of equity, justice, inclusiveness and accountability.

Brazil is one of those countries that are speedly gaining importance as a global player. Monitoring the news, we are witnessing how the current government is facing major corruption problems and how the President, Dilma Rousseff, is proactively dealing with them. Representatives from Amarribo, Transparency International´s national contact in Brazil, and from the Brazil Institute of Washington´s think tank The Woodrow Wilson Center, will give their insights on where they think these problems lie, how is the government response been so far and what citizens are doing against corruption.

September 12, 12:30 - 2pm

PANELISTS

Paulo Sotero
Director
Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

Josmar Verillo
Founder, Vice Chairman
Amarribo - Transparency International´s National Contact in Brazil

MODERATOR

Cynthia McClintock
Professor
Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program,
George Washington University

RSVP by September 9th: lasp@gwu.edu

In November 2011, the sixth Global Youth Summit will take place in the UK, bringing together social entrepreneurs, community activists and volunteers aged 16-19 from around the world. During the summit, the new Changemakers will be exchanging best practices and developing action plans for projects that tackle issues ranging from AIDS/HIV and corruption to education and human rights. Register on the site today so you can be the first to learn how to apply.

More information on the date and location will follow soon.

El Foro reunirá a representantes de gobiernos, empresas y sociedad civil para coordinar medidas orientadas a erradicar la corrupción, intercambiar experiencias y discutir aspectos relevantes para los países de la región como:

• Corrupción e inseguridad, transparencia judicial, corrupción en las fuerzas de seguridad, y crimen organizado y financiamiento de la política.

• La implementación de convenciones internacionales anticorrupción, el rol del sector privado y los medios en la lucha contra la corrupción, y la protección a denunciantes.

The Forum will bring government, business and civil society together to coordinate measures to eradicate corruption, exchange experiences and discuss issues relevant for the countries of the region, such as:

• Corruption and insecurity, judicial transparency, combating corruption within the security forces, and the threat of organised crime for financing of political parties and campaigns.

• The implementation of international anti-corruption conventions, the role of the private sector in the fight against corruption, the media as watchdog of the pubic and private sectors, and protection mechanisms for whistleblowers, victims and witnesses of corruption.

Successful responses to the challenge of preventing the worst impacts of climate change depend upon transparency and accountability in multiple ways. The kinds of social and economic transformations necessary to promote “low carbon development” will challenge vested interests, unleash new flows of finance, and test the integrity of people in power in both public and private sectors.

Please join Transparency International and the World Resources Institute for a panel discussion on how efforts to promote climate policy in the U.S. and around the world have managed these challenges, and about new initiatives to promote transparency and accountability around climate data and national-level commitments. Building from the Global Corruption Report: Climate Change, speakers will address the questions of transparency and accountability of climate information and decision-making, with a focus on the U.S. Key questions to consider:

• How does lobbying influence the climate policy debate in the U.S.?
• How can civil society contribute to advancing the debate on lobbying in U.S. climate policy?
• What do GHG reduction pledges assume about policy implementation, and how can civil society keep countries on track?

Speakers

• Jacob Werksman: World Resources Institute
• Paul Blumenthal: Huffington Post
• Lisa Ann Elges: Transparency International
• Taryn Fransen: World Resources Institute

A side-event hosted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Transparency International (TI)
Tuesday, 29th November 2011 | 15.00 – 16.30 hrs | Room Indwe River, Durban Exhibition Centre

How can international climate finance strengthen the national response to climate change? What is needed? Based on both research and implementation experience, this meeting will explore the issues relating to how climate change finance is being integrated into national budgetary systems. Panellists will discuss the key challenges in spending, monitoring and policy setting for climate finance across a range of different country settings.

Chair:
David Payton, UNDP

Panel:
Chantal Naidoo, Development Bank of Southern Africa
Professor Prem Jain, University of Zambia
Samuel Rotta, Transparency International, Peru
Neil Bird, Overseas Development Institute, UK