Handbook on Business Integrity for Myanmar Businesses

MCRB has published ‘Business Integrity: A Handbook for Myanmar Businesses’, a guide intended to help owners and managers of businesses in Myanmar who want to resist corrupt practices and reduce exposure to the risks that corruption creates.

The handbook has been published in collaboration with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

Business Integrity - A Handbook for Myanmar Businesses

Document PDF, 2196 downloads, 27 July, 2020

မြန်မာကုမ္ပဏီများ အတွက် စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းကျင့်ဝတ်ဖြောင့်မှန်ရေး ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာဆိုင်ရာလက်စွဲစာအုပ်

Document PDF, 2230 downloads, 27 July, 2020

This Handbook, available in English and Myanmar, aims to provide guidance for businesses in Myanmar to support their anti-corruption programmes, drawing on inspiration from examples in Myanmar and elsewhere.   It is structured around the eight principles for companies to take action to combat corruption issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2018. These are:

1. Strong, effective policy and support from top-level management to fight corruption

2. Risk assessment to effectively identify and evaluate exposure to corruption

3. Enhanced and detailed measures for high-risk and vulnerable areas

4. Application of anti-corruption measures to business partners

5. Accurate books and accounting records

6. Human resource management policies complementary to anti-corruption measures

7. Establish trustworthy reporting mechanisms to report suspected corrupt behaviour

8. Periodic review and evaluation of anticorruption prevention measures

The Handbook gives suggestions to companies on how they can individually put those eight principles into practice, and how they can collectively work with others to do so.  Also included are additional resources such as guidelines for a company’s codes of conduct, and gift policy.

Read also

• ‘Tone from the Top’ is Essential in Combatting Corruption
• Combatting Corruption in the Private Sector – Regional and Myanmar Developments
• Anti-Corruption Scores Have Improved Under the NLD Government
• Workshop on Building Business Integrity Co-Hosted by MCRB and UNODC
• Good Governance Toolkit for Myanmar Businesses: A Handbook for Resisting Corruption and Working with Integrity

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