“Shaping the Future”: Roundtable discussion on Beneficial Ownership Transparency

Resources

A shorter version of this rapporteur report, grouped by key messages, is available online.

List of links and resources from participants:

Government of Indonesia

• Presentation

Government of Nigeria

• Notes on important milestones of BO implementation

Brookings Institution

• Brookings Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS) project webpage, which houses ACDS resources on relevant anti-corruption topics such as beneficial ownership, and will also feature forthcoming country reports on BOT jointly published with OGP in the coming weeks.
• A commentary by Brookings and OGP on “A better anti-corruption machine: Breakthroughs needed to fight illicit finance and protect democracy”.
• Together with the Open Government Partnership and the U.S. government, Brookings ACDS served as a co-lead of the Financial Transparency and Integrity (FTI) Democracy Cohort, which produced a guidance document on “Considerations for Governments Working Alongside Civil Society on the Implementation of Beneficial Ownership Transparency.” That document, as well as other FTI Cohort resources, are available here.

Center for International Private Enterprise

• Beneficial Ownership Transparency: Exploring the Private Sector Use Case (2023)
• CIPE BOT portfolio flyer (2024)

World Bank

• Publication: Beneficial Ownership Registers: Implementation Insights and Emerging Frontiers (2024)
• Global Program on Anticorruption for Development