The OECD Public-Private Integrity Accelerator fosters knowledge exchange between private sector compliance experts and public organisations. This programme offers a platform to tackle shared anti-corruption and integrity challenges through short-term, virtual and pro-bono sharing of experiences.
Public-Private Integrity Accelerator
The Public-Private Integrity Accelerator (PPIA) is a peer-to-peer learning programme that matches compliance experts from multinational companies with integrity officials in public organisations through virtual, short-term, and pro-bono secondments. The programme facilitates the transfer of subject-matter expertise and skills using a practical, “learning by doing” approach.
About
Value for participants
The programme supports public sector participants in their roles to strengthen anti-corruption and integrity frameworks and build a stronger culture of integrity through cooperating with multinational enterprises.
For private sector participants, the programme offers an excellent professional development opportunity to work with counterparts in new regions and sectors of focus.
Testimonials
Inna Kasyniuk
Associate Director ERC Operations, Europe at Novartis
"The project exceeded my expectations, as it provided an effective platform to learn from peers in the public sector and share experiences. In Novartis, we believe that a culture of integrity is essential for sustainable success. Despite differences in regulations between the public and private sectors, integrity and risk frameworks are seen as universal. It is crucial to drive integrity through collaborative efforts from both public and private sectors. Participation in this project helped me in widening my horizons. I truly enjoyed the exchange with Jaana, professionally and personally. It was a big educational moment to understand the public sector more broadly."
Jaana Kuusisto
Government Controller-General at the Ministry of Finance, Finland
"The collaboration through the PPIA programme promotes a culture of integrity, transparency and trust. The project serves not only the organization I represent but also, more broadly, the entire government agencies in matters related to integrity. I´m grateful to the OECD for making such a great match. We have the similarity of being very systematic Inna and me, so our exchange of knowledge is incredibly smooth. We feel like we have known each others for years."
Areas of cooperation
The programme facilitates the transfer of subject-matter expertise and skills between the public and private sectors. For a period of 3 to 9 months, public sector participants will gain valuable insights from private sector experts on topics critical for effective anti-corruption and integrity systems. This exchange of good practice can in turn help public organisations with implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity, across its 3 pillars:
| A Coherent and Comprehensive Integrity System | Principle 2: Responsibilities | • Strengthening internal coordination with other key units that are relevant for integrity. |
| Principle 3: Strategy | • Supporting the development of internal monitoring and evaluation (including surveys to staff, clients, providers and users) and communication frameworks (including for accountability purposes). | |
| A Culture of Public Integrity | Principle 6: Leadership | • Strengthening the culture of integrity and "tone from the top". |
| Principle 8: Capacity Building | • Introducing or enhancing anti-corruption and integrity-related training programmes. | |
| Principle 9: Openness | • Building or strengthening open organisational cultures. • Introducing or enhancing whistleblower reporting and protection mechanisms. | |
| Effective Accountability | Principle 10: Risk Management | • Identifying how to strengthen internal controls or compliance functions. • Identifying how to strengthen capacity and independence of internal audit. • Assessing areas for improvement in risk management processes and/or assessments. |
Format
While every match is different, they will typically last three to nine months and be conducted on a virtual basis. To ensure the programme is as rich and tailored as possible, the exact time commitment, frequency and content of the exchanges are determined together by the private sector expert and host public organisation, with the support of the PPIA coordinators.
Participation criteria and safeguards
The programme is open to private sector experts and public officials globally. The experts looking to engage with the programme should have significant experience and responsibility for implementing integrity functions within their organisation.
Matches will be made in accordance with the following safeguards:
- Firewall between regulated sectors: Matches will aboid pairing a public official with a compliance officer whose company may be regulated by the public official's organisation.
- Conflict of interest screening: Before matches are made, the OECD will engage with both the public and private sector officials to identify any potential real or perceived conflicts of interest. Matches that could raise a perceive or actual conflict of interest will be avoided.
- Revolving door prevention: The programme prohibits participation of individuals planning to join the other sector in the near future.
- To minimise the risk of undue influence and lobbying, the focus of the programme is limited to methodologies and knowledge exchange on specific anti-corruption and compliance areas rather than regulatory or policy matters.
Join us
Help build a more ethical future to join the Public-Private Integrity Accelerator. Contact Rita Guelzim, Policy Analyst at the OECD, at rita.guelzim@oecd.org.
The Public-Private Integrity Accelerator is supported by the US Department of State as part of the Galvanizing the Private Sector (GPS) initiative.