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Prohibited Conduct can harm reputations, finances and resource allocation, and ultimately undermine development goals. We work globally with organisations like yours to mitigate these risks and reassure stakeholders.

We recognise that your wide range of stakeholders expect you to demonstrate leadership and proactive integrity despite limited and finite resources to support your goals.

Our team of experienced forensic investigators work with development banks, charities and NGOs, philanthropic bodies and bilateral donors, to establish facts and mitigate the risks of financial and non-financial prohibited conduct.

Whether issues emerge from whistleblower reports, Internal Audit findings, Fraud Risk Assessments or other sources, we help you to investigate and take effective action. You can then return to work as normal, improve culture and controls to reduce the likelihood of a repeat problem and recover assets to continue to support those most in need.

Proactive Services

We collate, triangulate and contrast data to identify issues before they become problems; proactive reviews, expenditure or asset verification, compliance monitoring and research.

Reactive Services

We investigate both financial and non-financial concerns, help to mitigate the risk of repeat problems and recover assets.

Specialist Global coverage

We are on 60+ framework agreements with teams in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Our specialists are supported by over 80,000 people in 150 markets.

Why Grant Thornton

Quality and expertise: our experienced forensics specialists are supported by our market leading digital forensic, corporate intelligence and data analytics offerings to provide you with advice you can trust. We are recognised by our peer group for excellence being regularly recognised by Who’s Who Legal and the Global Investigations Review.

Technology enabled solutions: we make sense of high volumes of structured, unstructured and open-source data, to accelerate inquiries and monitor activities for red flag identification and effective decision making. We use leading tools – combining Artificial Intelligence enabled technologies with SME input.

Flexible Delivery: we provide on call services, matched to your needs and preferences for outsourcing or co-sourcing. We can make expertise and technology available as your caseload ebbs and flows – meaning you don’t need to maintain a large standing team and we make technology in which you would otherwise have to invest available to you.

The investigation… has been executed very well… what a pleasure it has been working with you and your team on this investigation. They have provided insightful and high quality observations and findings working to a very tight timescale. Looking forward to future work on this and other matters.

Partner Head of Investigations, Middle East

I just want to say well done. It may have taken the authorities several years to piece this all together and to understand all that has gone on. But you were able to work it out in a weekend. It has been a brilliant experience working with you.

Global Co-Head Regulatory and Investigation team - London, International Law Firm

Proactive identification of financial irregularity

Challenge:

We supported a multi-national development bank that invests in growing businesses around the world to develop the ways it proactively monitors the risk of financial irregularity and corruption.

Solution:

We worked with our client to fine tune its existing risk identification tools and then tested the effectiveness of these tools against a sample of investments.

Results:

As a result of our work, our client is better prepared to identify potentially problematic activity within its investment portfolio, enabling it to demonstrate its deep commitment to probity.

Global development body emergency procurement review

Challenge:

We supported a United Nations body with global operations to better understand the risks posed by the use of emergency procurement procedures.

Solution:

Our data analytics work provided visibility over global spend via accelerated procurement processes for the first time. We recommended countries and a combination of historic and current procurement for analysis.

Results:

We identified issues of previously unknown and unmitigated risks. This included unnecessarily accelerated procedures, local staff misrepresentation and third party conflicts.

Designed and embedded a global “Speak Out” function

Challenge:

We designed a bespoke speak up function to empower employees and sub-contractors to disclose financial and non-financial irregularities including allegations of sexual harassment.

Solution:

Our team of whistleblowing specialists designed and managed the speak up framework, and conducted investigations arising from whistleblowing reports.

Results:

We assisted with strategic elements of the whistleblowing function, integrated case management technology, and developed bespoke dashboards to identify common concerns and root causes.

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International Development: forensic services

Prohibited Conduct can harm reputations, finances and resource allocation, and ultimately undermine development goals. We work globally with organisations like yours to mitigate these risks and reassure stakeholders.

Proactive Services

Reactive Services

Specialist Global coverage

Why Grant Thornton

Proactive identification of financial irregularity

Global development body emergency procurement review

Designed and embedded a global “Speak Out” function

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