Thailand Private Sector Collective Action Against Corruption (CAC) won the Asia-Pacific Anti-Corruption Collective Action Award 2023. Presented by the Basel Institute on Governance, this award celebrates inspiring and outstanding anti-corruption collective action initiatives and encourages organizations to engage in collective action to advance business integrity and to raise awareness among the general public.
The award ceremony was held at the Asia-Pacific Anti-Corruption Collective Action Forum 2023 in Manila, the Philippines. Mr. Phrommet Bencharongkit, Director of the Thai CAC collected the award and gave a short speech. “This is the first time that an anti-corruption collective action from Thailand won an award from the Basel Institute on Governance, which shows that the Thai CAC is recognized by the international community that focuses on anti-corruption. CAC has been working on strengthening the collective action by encouraging companies, big and small, to be a part of CAC by declaring their intention to fight against corruption and assessing their own corruption risk propensity and developing anti-corruption policy and measures to reduce and eliminate those risk. CAC asks companies to regularly review and revise their anti-corruption measures in order to help create a transparent and sustainable business environment. CAC also serves as a voice for the private sector in the public-private-civil society collaboration in tackling corruption problem that has plagued the country for so long. In addition, CAC plans to help SMEs develop anti-corruption policy and measures that are effective in preventing and eliminating corruption risks.”