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U4: Supporting Civil Society During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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
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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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
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
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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Idiot's Guide to Looting Public Procurement and Getting Rich Quick
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
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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Brunei Darussalam's E-Government Strategy in Overcoming Cyber Threats
E-Government is a government administration system that plays a vital role in the international global communication, and greatly determines the progress of a state. However, th...
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Measuring the e-Government Maturity in Indonesia using the Ranking of e-Government of Indonesia (PeGI)
In rapid development of Information Communication and Technology (ICT), citizens need fast and easy-to-access regarding e-Government services. To fulfil ...
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Conceptualising Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos
This article develops a framework for conceptualising authoritarian governance and rule in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. After introducing the national and academic cont...
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U4: Using Legal Empowerment to Curb Corruption and Advance Accountability
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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Citizen Participation in Vietnam's Local Government: Impact on Transparency and Accountability
This article conceptualizes the concepts of Citizen Participation, Transparency, and Accountability in Vietnam. In the contested debates of the link between citizen participatio...
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Promoting Civic Participation in Vietnam: The Case of the New Rural Program in a District of Ho Chi Minh City
The government of Vietnam has implemented “the National Target Program on New Rural Development” for the period 2010–2020. The New Rural Development Program was launched in 2008...
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Fighting Corruption with ICT: Strengthening Civil Society’s Role
In a Word With information and communication technology, civil society plays an increasing role in governance, promoting transparency and accountability to tackle corruption. De...
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U4: Procedural Fairness for Curbing Corruption: Taking Bureaucratic Decision-Making Out of the Shadows
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...