Latin America and the Caribbean

Some things we have achieved with our Latin American partners over the last 12+ years:

• Strengthened public financial management in Peru since 2015, supporting subnational governments to improve public spending, increase tax revenues and enhance the quality of services for citizens.
• Supported precedent-setting corruption cases involving presidents and other senior officials, as well as the Odebrecht scandal, while helping Peru develop and apply novel asset recovery mechanisms that have enabled the recovery of tens of millions of dollars linked to corruption and organised crime.
• Helped negotiate landmark international asset restitution agreements, including cooperation between Latin American countries and European financial centres to return illicit assets transparently and put them to work for the public good.
• Built capacity among hundreds of prosecutors, judges, financial intelligence units and other authorities across Latin America to trace illicit assets, investigate corruption and strengthen international cooperation.
• Contributed to regional good practice on asset recovery, including through GAFILAT guidelines and a regional community of practice for asset recovery professionals.
• Catalysed corruption risk management in the Amazon with environmental authorities in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, training more than 200 officials, fostering peer learning and tailoring approaches to national contexts.
• Supported some of the region’s first “follow the money” investigations into environmental crime, helping authorities target illicit assets linked to illegal mining, fishing, wildlife trade and forestry crime.
• Promoted business integrity and fair competition by supporting Collective Action approaches to preventing corruption, including developing novel reporting mechanisms to safeguard procurement in Colombia and Argentina, and supporting civil society partners working with the private sector on ethics and integrity.