Fraud, Corruption and Unethical Behaviour. 1. The Participants are firmly committed to take all necessary precautions to avoid and address corrupt, fraudulent, collusive, coercive, unethical, or obstructive practices. The Participants recognize that it is important that all United Nations staff, individual contractors, implementing partners, vendors and any third parties which are involved either in joint activities or in those of the Administrative Agent or Participating UN Organization (such individuals and entities being hereinafter referred to, together, as the “Individuals/Entities”, and individually as the “Individual/Entity”) must adhere to the highest standard of integrity as defined by each Participant. To this end, each Participant will maintain standards of conduct that govern the performance of the Individuals/Entities, to prohibit practices which are contrary to this highest standard in any activity related to the Fund. If an Individual/Entity is a UN organization, the Participating UN Organization engaging that Individual/Entity will rely upon that Individual’s/Entity’s standard of integrity. The Individuals/Entities must not engage in corrupt, fraudulent, collusive, coercive, unethical, or obstructive practices, as defined below.
Fraud, Corruption and Unethical Behaviour. The Recipient NUNO shall practice zero tolerance against corruption and other financial irregularities within and related to the approved Project(s). The zero-tolerance policy applies to all employees, staff members, consultants and other non-staff personnel and to cooperating partners and beneficiaries of the approved Project(s). The Recipient NUNO shall take all necessary precautions to avoid and address all forms of financial irregularities, including but not limited to things such as, corrupt, fraudulent, collusive, coercive, unethical, or obstructive practices. The Recipient NUNO recognizes that it is important that all of its employees, staff, individual contractors, implementing partners, vendors and any third parties which are involved in programmatic activities (such individuals and entities being hereinafter referred to, together, as the “Individuals/Entities”, and individually as the “Individual/Entity”) must adhere to the highest standard of integrity, in line with, but not less than those of the PUNOs. To this end, the Recipient NUNO shall maintain standards of conduct that govern the performance of the Individuals/Entities, to prohibit practices which are contrary to this highest standard in any activity related to the Fund. The Individuals/Entities must not engage in corrupt, fraudulent, collusive, coercive, unethical, or obstructive practices, as defined below. In this Agreement,
