African Union (v) Outline your country‟s approach, if any, to market abuse including but not limited to insider trading. (vi) Outline your country‟s approach, if any, to related party transactions in organizations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. (vii) Describe the mechanisms available for managing conflicts of interest (e.g. disclosure mechanisms of interested directors including mechanisms for ensuring arms length transactions with interested parties) (viii) Describe the role of the media and quality of investigative financial journalism in reporting on corporate governance practices and ethics violation and the challenges faced by the media in doing so (ix) (x) Describe the impact/ influence of multinationals companies on ethics within organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors within your country (both good and bad) and any differences between sectors Assess the effectiveness of measures taken by organisations to promote adoption of good ethics and combat corruption, smuggling, fraud, money laundering, administratively penalize noncompliance with the laws, regulations, standards and codes mentioned in this section and provide evidence of enforcement, with reference to: a) Administrative sanctions taken by organizations against officers, managers and employees for ethics violation and seriousness of penalties imposed including blacklisting and suspension of non-compliant organisation by professional associations; b) Describe any sanctions against organisations for non-compliance with laws and regulations, standards and codes mentioned in this section and provide evidence of enforcement; c) Describe success achieved by organisations in bringing to court cases described under (x) above; d) Describe the existence in organizations of capacity and appropriate skills for internal regulatory oversight, including number of professionals, e.g. lawyers, chartered secretaries, internal auditors (xi) Describe any mechanisms within your organizations , including the legal framework, for whistle blowing and “whistleblower” protection. (xii) Provide reports of any prior assessment of the ethics within your organization in each sector. 61