GIACC Activities

GIACC has since 2008 played a leading role internationally in raising awareness of corruption and promoting the implementation of effective anti-corruption actions by governments and organisations.

The following summarises some of the significant anti-corruption activities undertaken by GIACC-International.

GIACC Resource Centre

GIACC in May 2008 published the GIACC Resource Centre (see menu on the left) which provides on-line information, advice and tools designed to help organisations and individuals in the public and private sector understand, prevent and deal with corruption. The Resource Centre is periodically expanded and updated.

The GIACC Resource Centre is now available in 45 languages. Select your preferred language from the flag drop down on the top right of the page.

Since its launch in 2008, the GIACC Resource Centre has been visited online by over one million persons from over 190 countries, who have visited over two million webpages.

These resources are provided free of charge by GIACC, as it is believed that the best chance of reducing corruption is if all governments, project owners, funders, and organisations and individuals working in the sector worldwide move towards common anti-corruption practices. To do this, they need access to good practice resources regardless of their ability to pay.

ISO 37001 international anti-bribery standard

GIACC played a leading role in the development and publication of the anti-bribery standards BS 10500 and ISO 37001, and continues actively to promote the use of, and certification to, ISO 37001.

Neill Stansbury of GIACC was the Chairman of the BSI Working Group which wrote BS 10500, and Chairman of the 59 member country ISO Project Committee which wrote ISO 37001.

Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Benchmarks

The Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Benchmarks were published in April 2021. They were published by the Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with GIACC and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

They were developed and written in consultation with representatives of the African Union, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Commonwealth law ministries, anti-corruption agencies, and partner organisations.

Catherine Stansbury of GIACC was the principal author of the Benchmarks.

Project Anti-Corruption System (PACS)

GIACC has developed the Project Anti-Corruption System (PACS), which is a management system designed to assist in the prevention and detection of corruption on infrastructure projects.

It comprises 15 auditable PACS Standards which impact on all project phases, on all project participants, and throughout the project contractual structure.

University Anti-Corruption Course

GIACC has developed two alternative training products for university students: a short Seminar and a more detailed Course.

These are intended to form part of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or professional qualification for students who are studying subjects relevant to the infrastructure sector (e.g. engineering, architecture, project management, procurement, quantity surveying).

They provide persons who are studying subjects relevant to the infrastructure sector with an overview of the different types of corruption, liability for corruption, the damage it causes, what can be done to prevent it, and what they should do to avoid it in their working life.

The Seminar and Course materials are available free of charge to universities and colleges.

Anti-corruption training for professionals

GIACC has published a suite of eleven online anti-corruption training Modules. They are free of charge. Each Module requires between 15 to 30 minutes to complete. A certificate of completion can be downloaded or printed at the end of each Module. There have been over 10,000 completions of the Modules.

GIACC has developed and provides anti-corruption training workshops for the personnel of governments, law enforcement bodies, public sector and private sector organisations, and professional institutions.

GIACC has provided training workshops in over 40 countries to participants in the infrastructure sector. These participants included government officials, prosecutors, investigators, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, procurement managers, project managers and quantity surveyors.

International anti-corruption Train-the-Trainer Programme

GIACC successfully co-led an international anti-corruption Train-the-Trainer Programme.

The programme was undertaken in alliance between GIACC-International, the World Federation of Engineering Organisation’s Committee against Corruption, and Globethics.

The programme comprised 16 train-the-trainer workshops which took place online at approximately two-week intervals between October 2024 and June 2025. Each workshop was two hours long, including presentation and discussion.

Upon completion of the programme, 15 participants from 10 countries were certified as approved trainers. They will use and adapt training materials produced inter alia by GIACC, WFEO and Globethics.

See the Programme Report for full details.

Raising awareness of corruption, and promoting implementation of anti-corruption measures

GIACC-International, and GIACC national Affiliates, Alliances and Council Members:

raise public awareness of the damage and risks of corruption;
encourage organisations in the public and private sectors to implement effective anti-corruption measures;
support national and international public sector bodies develop good practice.

Updated on 3rd December 2025