Nigeria,  along  with Brazil, Egypt, India, and South Africa,  will  be the arrowhead  in  the new global initiative designed to promote collective action by businesses  and improve management training on anti-corruption, according to the United Nations (UN) which also stated that Siemens Integrity Initiative  will provide $4.35 million in funding to support the initiative.
The UN statement said the Global Compact Local Networks in Brazil, Egypt, India, Nigeria, and South Africa will launch and implement high-impact collective-action platforms on anti-corruption. By facilitating ongoing dialogue between the private and public sector, this project aims to provide a wide variety of stakeholders in these five countries with an opportunity to explore how collective action can create incentives for ethical business performance, and to discuss areas for further improvement.
The project aims to scale up existing anti-corruption efforts in the target countries and provide participants with knowledge, skills, strategies and resources to promote ethical practices and transparency in business operations, within each country, as well as in international cross-sectoral relations.
The project will emphasize the role of local actors in each of the target countries, engaging and building capacity of local stakeholders who are faced with corruption in their routine transactions and business relationships. Project partners are the Ethos Institute (Brazil); the Egyptian Junior Business Association; the Global Compact Society India; the Nigerian Economic Summit Group; and the National Business Initiative (South Africa).
The UN, on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) announced the launch of two global projects to advance implementation of its anti-corruption agenda.
The projects are funded by grants from the Siemens Integrity Initiative, a global fund launched in December 2009 to support organisations and projects that fight corruption and fraud through collective action, education and training.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Global Compact and its partner organisations will receive $4.35 million over four years to promote collective action on anti-corruption in key markets and to better integrate anti-corruption issues in business school curricula:  
The Global Compact and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) will develop anti-corruption guidelines for management schools, including academic modules to address transparency, ethics and anti-corruption in the classroom. Topics to be addressed include corporate governance; business ethics; the business case for anti-corruption; corporate compliance; collective action; the UN Convention against Corruption; the Global Compact’s 10th Principle; public contracting/procurement; and supply chain management.
Building on existing resources and incorporating stakeholder input, the guidelines will be disseminated to the more than 300 PRME-affiliated academic institutions around the world. Project success will depend in part on the ability of future business school graduates to demonstrate a better understanding of various anti-corruption and ethical decision-making strategies.
“Corruption in all its forms remains a cross-cutting challenge of momentous proportions,” said Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. “In order to mount an effective response to the scourge of corruption, we need targeted, collective action that can stimulate lasting behavioral change. The funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative will be critical in this effort.”
Launched in 2000, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies around the world to align their strategies and operations with ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of broader UN goals.