Challenges for Compliance and Integrity Management in Latin America

In September 2018, the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA, a highly specialized international organization created in 2011 by an initiative of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes and other stakeholders) announced the launch of a new, long-term project entitled Corporate Compliance Program Benchmark Project with the intention to produce “the first [public and international] database on anti-corruption corporate compliance to be set up by an academic/non-profit organization.” Beyond the potential of the actual data generated, the IACA’s project already provides a clear point of reference to a research agenda that has been steadily growing in popularity over the past decade: the role of ethics management in curbing private corruption. Thus, the IACA takes up the beacon that was first lit by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in October 2016 in the form of the ISO 37001 – Anti-Bribery Management Systems. Individually, the two initiatives might not represent a new way of understanding corruption in the private sector; but taken together, they certainly signal a breakthrough in the way the international anti-corruption community has traditionally approached the issue, and bring much welcomed attention to an area that past corruption studies have felt uncomfortable visiting.

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