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By Uncovering Reporting Stopping Facilitation Payments
The Fight Against Facilitation Payments Initiative (FAFPI) is both a network for sharing and building best practices and a data-driven initiative, collecting and using data as a mechanism for effective change.
What are facilitation payments?
Small payments, gifts or other benefits made to officials to secure or expedite the performance of a routine or necessary action, which you are entitled to have performed without the incentive.
Facilitation payments can occur in many different situations, and they can be called by different synonyms depending on where you are. Therefore, they are a problem that can be difficult to trace and can leave space for escalation to different crimes: such as bribes, extortion, or security threats.
An increasing number of international organisations are actively taking a stand against facilitation payments
Join us in our collective efforts against facilitation payments
A Collaborative and Data-Driven Initiative
The Fight Against Facilitation Payments Initiative (FAFPI) collects data on when and where companies and organisations encounter demands for facilitation payments. By collecting evidence, the Initiative can inform relevant authorities and civil society stakeholders to initiate effective change.
How do FAFPI achieve change?
The Fight Against Facilitation Payments Initiative (FAFPI) achieves change through its reporting mechanism. It was developed as a body of evidence for actual instances of facilitation payments. Most companies and organisations collecting data focus on hotspots. Also, most of the data collected in this way is built on perception rather than reality. FAFPI collects data on actual instances. It collects evidence.
By building this database, the Initiative can approach governments and present evidence for facilitation payments, which are considered crimes in most countries. Thus, by providing evidence of crimes being committed, FAFPI can be a lever for change by persuading relevant stakeholders to act. This is the promise of FAFPI. And this is how we create change.
Join FAFPI in making a dent in the issue of facilitation payments
Join the Fight Against Facilitation Payments Initiative
Join us and contribute to a world free from facilitation payments, where organisations, society, and individuals no longer bear the cost of this corrupt practice. Collect data, share knowledge, and raise awareness as part of a collective effort.
Learn more about facilitation payments
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