Best Policy Practices

Best Policy Practices
TI – Transparency International is a global civil society organisation
leading the fight against corruption. TI is a network
including more than 90 locally established national chapters
and chapters-in-formation. These bodies fight corruption in
the national arena in a number of ways. They bring together
relevant players from government, civil society, business and
the media to promote transparency in elections, in public
administration, in procurement and in business. TI’s global network
of chapters and contacts also use advocacy campaigns
to lobby governments to implement anti-corruption reforms.
Politically non-partisan, TI does not undertake investigations
of alleged corruption or expose individual cases. TI has the
skills, tools, experience, expertise and broad participation to
fight corruption on the ground, as well as through global and
regional initiatives. For a lot more information and tools, see
www.transparency.org/
UNEP – UNEP’s Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative
(SBCI) is a “sister initiative” of the Marrakech Task Force
on Sustainable Buildings and Construction. It has its own
website, where also the main documents of the Task Force are
available: www.unepsbci.org. Among other activities, SBCI is
forming a partnership with a university to undertake as complete
as possible a review and analysis of existing governmental
policies and tools to encourage energy efficiency in buildings.
The intention is to have well over a hundred countries
covered from all over the world. First results will be available
towards the end of 2007.
US EPA, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s
Green Building Programs, see www.epa.gov/greenbuilding
WB – the World Bank has several publications on corruption.
For more information also in Arabic, Portuguese, French and
Spanish, see web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/
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