Tackling Corruption at the Sector Level

Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals is a book by Mark Pyman and Paul Heywood. It sets out their SFRA approach to tackling corruption, encompassing four core elements. First, they argue corruption problems should be tackled at the level of the specific sector (like health, policing, or agriculture). At this level, professionals working in organisations have deep knowledge, extensive operational experience, and expertise that can be used to solve, minimize, or avoid corruption problems in their given setting. Second, they advise you to focus on specific corruption issues, not generalities. Unlike the impossibly complex aim of addressing corruption at the country level, this sector-based model focuses on more manageable manifestations of corruption. The authors provide sector-specific typologies of corruption issues and show how they can be used to understand which ones matter most and why. Third, they set out remediation options, using a two-track matrix combining a high-level framing to encapsulate the more political options with a wide range of detailed measures. Finally, using a range of different ‘lenses,’ they set out how to decide which combinations of broad framings and detailed measures represent the best action to take.

SPEAKERS

Paul M. Heywood, Programme Director at GI ACE and Sir Francis Hill Chair of Politics, University of Nottingham

Andrew Hayward, Group Head of Compliance and Ethics Subsea 7 S.A.

Elizabeth David-Barrett, Deputy Director (Research) at GI ACE and Director at CSC, University of Sussex

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