Working Paper Sponsors: Germany, Denmark, Rwanda, Poland, Austria, Namibia Signatories: Albania, Iceland, Uruguay, Canada, Czech

Republic, Turkmenistan, San Marino, Qatar, Belarus, Greece, Norway, Monaco, Portugal, Nicaragua, Switzerland, Senegal, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Monaco, Spain, Italy and Mongolia encourage nations to: 1. Promote the empowerment of workers in both the public and private sector to act with more integrity and knowledge of how to make decisions that will prevent the spread of corruption a. Propose the offering of short, two day courses, required for government workers, to learn the corruption laws pertaining to their particular field of employment b. Designate ethics courses to be held at state educational facilities and funded by the state when possible. However, in the case that these resources are not available or when nations suffer from systemic corruption, NGOs such as Transparency International will provide the services c. Propose that these programs be controlled and supported by local municipalities with funding, if needed, from the federal government d. Increase basic services, protection networks, and the empowerment of communities to fight ignorance through aware citizens and the establishment of community councils to advise local population e. Urge with the importance of the adoption of anti-corruption guidelines and Code of Conduct inside governmental and private institutions 2. Resolve to promote the free market workings that will encourage free enterprise and as a result, lower levels of corruption a. Propose that each state put in place, through legislation, a proper legal environment for the economy to flourish and maintain healthy levels of competition 3. Propose defining transnational crime as the transportation of inordinate sums of money across national boundaries 4. Recommend governments to fund anti-corruption bodies. a. Those agencies should have independent budget, staff and action to fight corruption, b. Certain bureaucracy to implement anti-corruption policies and monitor state`s financial transactions may be skipped to facilitate the establishment of transparency and accountability,

c. Propose protections for those who report instances of corruption to the above stated anti-corruption bodies through the creation of anonymous hotlines as well as reduced sentences for those who report acts of depravity d. Expand the use of technology in monitoring both transnational and domestic dealings that have a possibility of being corrupt
6. Countries ought to adopt the Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) to assist them in lowering the barriers to asset recovery through capacity building and providing advice and assistance to requested states. a. Retrieved stolen properties should be used to fight corrupt practices in order to reach future stability