U4: Using Legal Empowerment to Curb Corruption and Advance Accountability

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Legal empowerment refers to the use of laws and rights to increase relatively powerless populations’ control over their lives. A growing field, it overlaps with social accountability but emphasises laws and rights. Legal empowerment can help curb corruption and promote accountability in education, health, budgeting, formal and informal justice systems, and democratic governance. Development agencies, governments, and civil society should take account of the many ways in which legal empowerment can bolster anti-corruption efforts.

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Field	Value
Document type	Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Language of document	English
Topics	Anti-corruption
Geographic area (spatial range)	Global
Copyright	Yes
Access and use constraints	Attribution CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - The content of this research may be reproduced and distributed for non-commercial purposes, if (organization/individual) is notified and the authors are acknowledged as the source.
Version / Edition	U4 Issue 2020:4
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Contact	Email: helpdesk@u4.no Website: https://www.u4.no/
Author (individual)	Stephen Golub
Co-author (individual)	Monica Kirya (Series Editor)
Publication place	Norway
Publisher	U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
Publication date	2020
Pagination	32
Keywords	Accountability,Basic services,Citizen engagement,Governance,Health sector,Legal empowerment,Legal instruments,Public sector
Date uploaded	August 6, 2020, 07:39 (UTC)
Date modified	August 12, 2020, 02:25 (UTC)