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Collective Action is a powerful anti-corruption approach that brings businesses, civil society, and international stakeholders together to address shared corruption challenges and promote integrity and fair competition. This fully interactive course equips participants with the practical skills needed to conceptualise, establish, and implement Collective Action initiatives in diverse settings.

In this course, you will take on the role of Martha, a young entrepreneur in the fictional country of “Wakandaa.” Faced with a window of opportunity as the new government pledges to crack down on corruption, you will identify key stakeholders from the private sector, civil society, and the international community to join you in creating a Collective Action initiative. Together, you will explore the unique corruption challenges and work to promote fair business opportunities.

You will learn to:

• Identify and engage relevant stakeholders from the private sector, government, and civil society
• Understand the principles of Collective Action and how to apply them in anti-corruption efforts
• Navigate common challenges, such as managing conflicting stakeholder expectations and building trust
• Adapt to changing political and economic landscapes in the fight against corruption
• Develop and implement strategies for improving business integrity and fair competition

By the end of the course, you will have hands-on tools to build and lead successful Collective Action initiatives, addressing corruption challenges through collaboration and mutual trust.

This course is ideal for:

• Private sector professionals, including compliance officers, auditors, and risk managers
• Government representatives involved in anti-corruption or procurement initiatives
• Civil society and international organisations focused on transparency, accountability, and economic development

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a central element of most corruption and money laundering investigations. The information and evidence you can gather from publicly available sources can make the difference between a successful investigation and a dead end. Through a simulated investigation, this course will help you learn the basics of how to prepare, conduct and report an OSINT undertaking.

• Introduction to OSINT and the intelligence cycle;
• Preparing your research environment;
• Searching the open web and deep web databases;
• Analysing domain records to find information about websites;
• Using cached and archived records to retrieve past versions of websites;
• Gathering information from social media sites;
• Exploiting the visual and meta information of images;
• Searching online communities, investigating dark web pages and bitcoin;
• Preparing a report of an OSINT investigation.

During the course you immerse yourself in a simulated investigation into the fishing vessel FV Malaga and its owner, the organisation Mossaman Commodities. You follow open-source leads about the misuse of company structures that reveal indicators of illegal fishing and the smuggling of endangered animal parts.

The course was developed by our eLearning team in collaboration with subject matter experts from ICAR and our Green Corruption programme, with primary funding from PMI Impact. Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Ukrainian.

For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In thiscourse, you will useExcel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoices, phonerecords and commercialtransactions.

• Protect your data from accidental changes
• Use simple functions to find transactions that stand out
• Unlock the power of filters to find exactly the data you are searching for
• Use subtotals to summarise your financial data instantly
• Create interactive summaries using PivotTables

You will also gain insight into typical patterns of illegal use of bank accounts, allowing you tofurther explorepossibilities to analyse financial data.

This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue at any time. It is structuredin sessions thatbuild on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing thecourse, you will beeligible for a certificate of completion Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian , Bulgarian, Ukrainian,Serbian, Albanian, Romanian.

Analysing suspicious transactions for actitiesrelated to money laundering or the financing of terrorism is a corefunction of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs).

In this course, you will learn to assess the risk of suspicious activity and analyse suspicious transaction reports(STRs).

This course was developed in co-operation with the Egmont Group ofFIUs and is based on the content of the Egmont Group’s on-site TacticalAnalysis training. It is aimed primarily at FIU analysts, but is usefulfor anyone analysing evidence as part of a financial investigation.

• Understand the core responsibilities of an FIU;
• Differentiate between information and intelligence;
• Assess the risk of suspicious activity;
• Conduct an analysis of an STR, including all steps of theintelligence cycle: creating a collection plan and hypothesis,collecting, analysing and evaluating information, and creating anddisseminating a report of your findings;

This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue atany time. It is structured in sessions that build on each other, so werecommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing thecourse, you will be eligible for a certificate of completion.

For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In this course, you will use Excel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoices, phone records and commercial transactions.

• Protect your data from accidental changes
• Use simple functions to find transactions that stand out
• Unlock the power of filters to find exactly the data you are searching for
• Use subtotals to summarise your financial data instantly
• Create interactive summaries using PivotTables

You will also gain insight into typical patterns of illegal use of bank accounts, allowing you to further explore possibilities to analyse financial data.