Office of Suspension and Debarment

When World Bank Group project funding is not used for its intended purpose, it hurts the poorest and most vulnerable people. This report documents how the sanctions system—the Integrity Vice Presidency, the Office of Suspension and Debarment, and the Sanctions Board and its Secretariat—worked to help ensure that funds were used as intended.

The world is facing a pivotal moment of urgent global challenges for development. It is critical for the World Bank Group remain vigilant against corruption in the projects it finances. This report documents how the offices of the World Bank Group's sanctions system worked in FY23 to help ensure that the Banks’s funds are used in a transparent and accountable manner and only for their intended purposes.

This report documents how, in a time of increasingly complex global challenges and historic development support by the World Bank Group, the offices of the sanctions system worked in FY22 to help ensure that the WBG’s funds are used in a transparent and accountable manner and only for their intended purposes.

Prepared jointly by the World Bank Group’s Integrity Vice Presidency, Office of Suspension and Debarment, and Sanctions Board, the report illustrates how the institution’s sanctions system has worked in FY21 to meet the challenges and opportunities of an ever-changing global anticorruption landscape.

Despite unprecedented challenges in FY20, the World Bank Group Sanctions System maintained its anticorruption mission to investigate and adjudicated allegations of fraud and corruption in Bank-financed projects, safeguarding development resources.

The Sanctions System FY19 Annual report details the World Bank Group's efforts to investigate and adjudicate allegations of fraud and corruption in Bank projects, safeguarding donor resources for development.

This inaugural report is the result of efforts by INT, OSD and the Sanctions Board to prepare a joint overview of the World Bank Group's Sanctions System and its activities over the past year.

10-year update on case data and metrics in OSD's Reporton Functions, Data and Lessons Learned.

Second edition of OSD's Report on Functions, Data and Lessons Learned.

OSD's Report on Functions, Data and Lessons Learned.

This knowledge report summarizes the views expressed by various participants at the 2nd Symposium on Supranational Responses to Corruption: Integrity in Climate Finance and Action and findings from submitted papers

This knowledge report summarizes the Symposium on Supranational Responses to Corruption. The Symposium took stock of the current supranational anti-corruption mechanisms and standards, assessed how to facilitate a multilateral understanding of these efforts, and discussed how supranational anti-corruption responses can work toward creating a regional and/or transnational anti-corruption ecosystem. 

The World Bank Office of Suspension and Debarment (OSD), in collaboration with the Working Group—including the Debarment and Exclusions Subcommittee of the International Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee, the Sanctions Officer for the Inter-American Development Bank Group, and the Government Procurement Law Program at The George Washington University Law School—has led the Global Suspension & Debarment Survey and Directory project since 2020. The Directory consolidates comparative, standardized information on how jurisdictions worldwide design and implement suspension, debarment, and other exclusion mechanisms to safeguard public funds and strengthen integrity in public procurement and development finance.

To learn more about the Directory and check out the accompanying table, please visit the website www.worldbank.org/exclusionsurvey.

The World Bank’s Office of Suspension and Debarment (OSD), together with the Working Group, introduces the 2025 Global Suspension & Debarment Directory - the Second Edition. Based on data from the 2023 Global Suspension & Debarment Survey and presented in a standardized, comparative format, the 2025 Directory compiles how jurisdictions worldwide employ suspension, debarment, and other exclusion mechanisms. This edition expands geographic coverage to more than 36 jurisdictions across every inhabited continent and explores new areas of policy and practice, including monetary penalties, the role of compliance programs and remedial measures, and individual liability.

The Global Suspension & Debarment Directory is the first ever consultative resource on exclusion systems. This Directory is the product of the 2020 Global Suspension & Debarment Survey, a global survey launched in March 2020 that captured data and information on the exclusion systems of 23 different jurisdictions and institutions. For anyone interested in learning how these jurisdictions employ exclusion mechanisms to prevent certain suppliers from accessing public funds, this Directory is for you!

Representatives from multilateral organizations, government, private sector, non-governmental organizations, and academia met for five virtual webinars over five consecutive weeks. 

The Third Colloquium on Suspension and Debarment will showcased the broad range of first principles underlying suspension and debarment systems, covering developing trends and potential harmonization of systems worldwide.