Galvanizing the Private Sector: Empowering Small Business to Conduct Monitoring, Advocacy through Collective Action

This workshop highlights SMEs' role in promoting integrity and fighting corruption through advocacy and collective action. It focuses on identifying effective strategies, discussing challenges, and sharing success stories to inspire and enhance SMEs' impact on governance and integrity standards across society. Empowered and supported, SMEs are key in detecting fraud and promoting integrity. The workshop will feature businesspersons’ stories from Lithuania, Ukraine, and Nigeria and a global experience from CIPE’s anti-corruption and business integrity programs worldwide. Collaborative efforts with CSOs and journalists further amplify this impact, fostering a national movement for transparency and accountability. The workshop targets SMEs, anti-corruption CSOs, think-tanks, journalists, policymakers, and international donors for collaborative anti-corruption efforts. The workshop is part of the Global Initiative to Galvanize the Private Sector as Partners in Combating Corruption (GPS), of which CIPE is an implementing partner. GPS is supported by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.