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U4: Supporting Civil Society During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Saul Mullard & Per Aarvik
2020
There are significant corruption risks during times of crisis. Civil society has an important role to play in ensuring funds to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic reach their destinat...
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U4: Harnessing the Power of Communities Against Corruption
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Claudia Baez Camargo, David Jackson (Series Editor)
2018
Ignorance, apathy and disempowerment are recurring drivers of impunity. Social accountability, on its part, aims to empower citizens with information and provide effective chann...
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Build Better, Build Right: A New Tool for Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Global
Archived web content
Gracia Ramirez (CoST Honduras), Open Contracting Partnership
2019
Honduras is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. With rising temperatures, it has borne the brunt of ever more frequent severe weather ...
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Open for Business: Colombia’s Data-Driven Procurement Reforms Increase Competition
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Open Contracting Partnership
2020
Open contracting helps Colombian governments boost participation & competitive tendering in a market where direct awards are common Urgency for reforms came from high-profile gr...
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Why Civil Society Cannot Battle it All Alone: The Roles of Civil Society Environment, Transparent Laws and Quality of Public Administration in Political Corruption Mitigation
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Prince Aian G. Villanueva
2019
Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from 1789to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on institut...
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Collective Action on Business Integrity_A Practitioner Guide's for Civil Society Organisations
Global
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Veronika Horvath and Emma Harte (Organisation Development...
2018
This guide is for CSOs (such as Transparency International chapters) that are considering embarking on collective action initiatives for business integrity in partnership with p...
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Online Article: Covering Whistleblowers: 6 Tips for Journalists
Global
Archived web content
Denise-Marie Ordway
2019
To help newsrooms fine-tune their strategies for covering this scandal — and whistleblowing complaints that are sure to come forward, both locally and nationally, in the future ...
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Idiot's Guide to Looting Public Procurement and Getting Rich Quick
Global
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Open Contracting Partnership
2018
If you’re one of the many honest government workers around the world looking to do the right thing, look away now — this guide isn’t for you! But if you’re one of the few wannab...
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Mythbusting Confidentiality in Public Contracting
Global
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Cindy Kroon & Alice Garland, Open Contracting Partnership
2018
One in every three dollars that a government spends is on a contract with a company to deliver goods, works, and services to citizens. There is growing evidence that transpa...
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Open Up Guide: Using Open Data to Combat Corruption
Global
Archived web content
Open Data Charter, Tim Davies, Maria Zilli, Zainab Harrak, Eduardo...
2018
This practical resource identifies priority datasets, open standards and open data use-cases that governments, civil society and other stakeholders can focus on to tackle corrup...
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U4: Using Legal Empowerment to Curb Corruption and Advance Accountability
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Stephen Golub, Monica Kirya (Series Editor)
2020
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 accountab...
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U4: Procedural Fairness for Curbing Corruption: Taking Bureaucratic Decision-Making Out of the Shadows
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Migai Akech & Monica Kirya
2020
The wide discretionary powers of bureaucrats can undermine their impartiality, and result in decisions being made that are tainted by bias or have violated due process. Such opp...
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U4: An International Anti Corruption Court_A Synopsis of the Debate
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Matthew C. Stephenson & Sofie Arjon Schütte
2019
Impunity and the transnational nature of corruption have led to calls for an international anti-corruption court that could hold kleptocrats accountable and spur governments to ...
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U4: Literature Review: The Use of ICTs in the Fight Against Corruption
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Marie Chên, Dr. Finn Heinrich (Reviewer)
2016
E-governance has gained popularity in recent years, with many countries resorting to information communications technology (ICTs) to modernise government, increase efficiency an...
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U4: Health Sector Corruption: Practical Recommendations for Donors
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Karen Hussmann, Monica Kirya (Series Editor)
2020
Corruption in the health sector can make the difference between life and death. It has severe consequences for access, quality, equity, efficiency, and efficacy of health servic...
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U4: Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases: An Innovative Answer to the Quest for Evaluation Tools
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Francesco De Sanctis, Sofie Arjon Schütte (Series Editor)
2020
Impartial, competent and efficient judiciaries are vital in addressing corruption. Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of performance should be considered when assessing t...
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U4: Towards Cities of Integrity: The Role of Urban Planners
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Dieter Zinnbauer, Aled Williams (Series Editor)
2019
Getting urbanisation right is a prerequisite for human development and environmental sustainability. Yet, corruption risks in urbanisation abound and threaten to stymie ambition...
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U4: Media and Anti-Corruption
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Wasil Schauseil, Nieves Zúñiga (Tranparency International) & David...
2019
The media can play a paramount role in exposing corruption and initiating legal, political and penal action against it. Different media genres unfold their respective strengths ...
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U4: Evidence of Citizen Engagement Impact in Promoting Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Effort
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
José María Marín (Transparency International), Marie Chêne & Finn...
2016
Citizen engagement has garnered strength in the last 20 years as a response to the shortcomings of government reforms designed to improve governance. Different forms of citizen ...
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U4: Overcoming the Pitfalls of Engaging Communities in Anti-Corruption Programmes
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Petra Burai, Saul Mullard (Series Editor)
2020
Effective engagement by communities is a crucial strategy for anti-corruption initiatives. However, encouraging involvement and civic mindedness at a local level can present cha...