Invoice Red Flag Manual

Invoice Red Flag Manual

by | Jan 31, 2019 | Barrick Gold, North America, Third party due diligence and payments, Third party/agent due diligence

This manual is intended to provide background and guidance surrounding anti-corruption red flags, to help ensure that payments to third parties who interface with the government on Barrick ’s behalf, and to the government itself, are made in a manner consistent with applicable anti-corruption laws and company policies. Generally, an invoice red flag is an out-of-the-ordinary, or suspicious fact or detail about the size of the payment, the recipient, the service provider. When a red flag is present there is an affirmative legal obligation to follow up and obtain a reasonable explanation.

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Web-based Search Guide

Web-based Search Guide

by | Jan 23, 2019 | Barrick Gold, North America, Third party due diligence and payments, Third party/agent due diligence

What international guidelines should your consider as part of a comprehensive anti-bribery compliance program? This complimentary resource offers insights into the full range of guidelines along with practical recommendations for implementing an effective program.

Download the Anti-Corruption Compliance Guidelines to learn:

The categories of an effective anti-corruption compliance program
Example references for policies, procedures and records, risk assessment, training, management of supply chain and business partners, and other process categories

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Checklist for Canadian Mining Companies Working Abroad

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Checklist for Canadian Mining Companies Working Abroad

by | Dec 20, 2018 | Code of Conduct and policies and procedures, Ethical code of conduct, Mining, North America

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Checklist was developed by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to provide Canadian mining companies developing mining projects abroad with a tool that can assist them to plan for and mitigate potential environmental, social and ethical challenges they may encounter. This document touches on issues such as addressing human right concerns, local employment and procurement and international standards and guidelines. It is an excellent checklist designed to raise awareness of basic community relation approaches and to prepare companies to successfully engage communities and address social risk.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Checklist for Canadian Mining Companies Working Abroad

Action Plan and Compliance Program Management Dashboard

by | Dec 18, 2018 | Monitoring, measurements, analysis and evaluation, North America, Program testing and benchmarking

This is a detailed high level compliance action plan dashboard that outlines each specific task for the 9 compliance program area/element. It provides the required task, the employee responsible, deadlines, status and relevant notes. It also highlights which task is included as a Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the task owner. This type of high level action plan dashboard is important as it supplements the strategic plan by adding the needed details and accountability for achieving the desired goals.

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Where do we stand 20 years after the OECD Convention was signed?

Where do we stand 20 years after the OECD Convention was signed?

by | Sep 13, 2018 | Accountability and transparency, Continuous improvements, Continuous learning and applying lessons learned, Leadership and governance, Management review, North America, Program testing and benchmarking, Risk-based training, Structuring an Anti-Corruption compliance program, The business case for a compliance program, Training

Article from Jean-Pierre Méan, expert in compliance and anti-corruption.

Transparency International, the Berlin-based global anti-corruption organization, has just released its twelfth progress report (the 2018 Exporting Corruption Report) on the enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (the OECD Convention) . This report follows on 11 reports published annually from 2005 to 2015. It is an occasion to reflect on what has been achieved by the OECD Convention so far and what more can be expected in the coming years.

But first, what is the OECD Convention and where does it come from?

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