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      • Global finance and the enablers of corruption
        • Corruption in Paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South
        • Identifying Enabler Networks and Their Vulnerabilities
        • Testing and Evidencing Compliance with Beneficial Ownership Checks
        • Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians: The Contested Interpretation of Lawyers as Facilitators of Kleptocracy and Grand Corruption
        • Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control
        • Beneficial Ownership – Nigeria
      • Crisis responses and corruption in vunerable sectors
        • Addressing Corruption in the Crisis Response of the Malawian Health System
        • Crisis Emergencies, State Responses and ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
        • The Corrupting Effect of Political Connections in Public Procurement through Crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Lessons for Combating Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
        • Interrogating Corruption Risk in the Climate Transition: Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
        • International Deal-Making, Beliefs, and Local Social Norms
        • Regulating Cross-Border Trading – East Africa
      • State capture
        • Building Resilience to State Capture
        • Engaging the Public to Fight State Capture
        • Building Institutional Resilience to Global Illicit Financial Flows as Enablers and Drivers of State Capture
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        • Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi
        • Social Norms & Behaviors & Health – Tanzania
        • Preventing Medical Theft – Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of Integrity: Zambia and South Africa
        • Advancing Integrity – Uganda
        • Harnessing Informality – East & Central Africa & Kyrgyzstan
        • Leveraging Social Audits – India
        • Integrity & Civil Servants – Nepal & Bangladesh
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  • About
  • Our work
    • Research themes
      • Global finance and the enablers of corruption
        • Corruption in Paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South
        • Identifying Enabler Networks and Their Vulnerabilities
        • Testing and Evidencing Compliance with Beneficial Ownership Checks
        • Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians: The Contested Interpretation of Lawyers as Facilitators of Kleptocracy and Grand Corruption
        • Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control
        • Beneficial Ownership – Nigeria
      • Crisis responses and corruption in vunerable sectors
        • Addressing Corruption in the Crisis Response of the Malawian Health System
        • Crisis Emergencies, State Responses and ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
        • The Corrupting Effect of Political Connections in Public Procurement through Crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Lessons for Combating Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
        • Interrogating Corruption Risk in the Climate Transition: Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
        • International Deal-Making, Beliefs, and Local Social Norms
        • Regulating Cross-Border Trading – East Africa
      • State capture
        • Building Resilience to State Capture
        • Engaging the Public to Fight State Capture
        • Building Institutional Resilience to Global Illicit Financial Flows as Enablers and Drivers of State Capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi
        • Social Norms & Behaviors & Health – Tanzania
        • Preventing Medical Theft – Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of Integrity: Zambia and South Africa
        • Advancing Integrity – Uganda
        • Harnessing Informality – East & Central Africa & Kyrgyzstan
        • Leveraging Social Audits – India
        • Integrity & Civil Servants – Nepal & Bangladesh
    • Fellowship
    • Rethinking Anti-Corruption
    • From Research to Practice
  • Resources
    • Publications
    • Blogs
    • Newsletter
    • Multimedia
    • Digital Library
  • News & events
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Author Archives: GI ACE

silhouettes of people - two in sunlight - with network connections overlaid

Harnessing Informality (Pt. 2): What could a network intervention to tackle anti-corruption look like?

Baez Camargo_ext, Integrity SystemsBy GI ACE04/12/2019Leave a comment

How might knowledge about the centrality of informal social networks be used to inform the design of innovative anti-corruption approaches?

East African traders using mobile app

From whistleblowing to community monitoring on East African borders

Klopp, Subnational & SectoralBy GI ACE27/11/20191 Comment

GI-ACE researchers explore the multitude of ways traders interpret bribery on East African borders. Especially for small-scale traders with perishable goods, the cost and time involved drive traders to seek out shortcuts.

anti-corruption agency buildings in Malawi and Nigeria

African anti-corruption agencies and the problem of independence

Anders, Integrity SystemsBy GI ACE26/11/20191 Comment

GI-ACE project research in Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania shows that anti-corruption agencies’ independence has turned out to be a major impediment.

penguin with rolls of Nigerian currency

Statistical challenges and ‘cash for penguins’

Harvey, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE20/11/20191 Comment

GI-ACE project on beneficial ownership and corruption in Nigeria investigating financial data to try to locate something that is not apparently observable—laundering the proceeds of corruption through disguising the beneficial owner—by removing from the picture what might be explained legitimately.

MGNREGA logo with geotagging icon and screenshots

How can top-down audits and social audits respond to the changing technology of service delivery in India? 

Dhillon, Integrity Systems, Subnational & SectoralBy GI ACE14/11/20191 Comment

Takeaways from GI-ACE workshop on ‘Audit and Anti-Corruption Measures in India.’

stages of procurement overlaid on Uganda and Tanzania flags

Where does pressure for public procurement transparency come from? Reflections from Uganda and Tanzania

David-Barrett, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE31/10/2019Leave a comment

Recent fieldwork in Tanzania and Uganda demonstrates the potential for data transparency to improve accountability will depend on commitment, not just to open data but also to pursue accompanying reforms that facilitate oversight and promote fair competition.

newspaper real estate and bank representations

The challenges in researching enablers of the corrupt

Heathershaw, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE29/10/20191 Comment

Reseracher Tom Mayne discusses GI-ACE project aiming to look at possible enabling or complicit practices regarding money-laundering in three different but related areas: banking, real estate, and reputation management.

silhouettes of people - two in sunlight - with network connections overlaid

Harnessing informality for anti-corruption practice: Shifting the unit of analysis from individuals to networks

Baez Camargo_ext, Integrity SystemsBy GI ACE22/10/2019Leave a comment

Researcher Claudia Baez Camargo writes about GI-ACE project, we adopt two perspectives to explore the question, “What would anti-corruption practice look like if we shift the unit of analysis from individuals to networks?”

Professor Paul Bukuluki leads the ethnographic field team in training

Pairing field experimental and ethnographic methods to study anti-corruption

Buntaine, Integrity SystemsBy GI ACE15/10/20191 Comment

GI-ACE researcher Mark Buntaine’s team has pursued a fully paired ethnography and randomized field experiment to study anti-corruption strategies in the context of revenue-sharing for Bwindi National Park.

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GI ACE is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and UK International Development. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the UK Government’s official policies.

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