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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
        • Hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption
      • 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
        • Ethical border trading between Kenya and Uganda for small-scale businesses
      • State capture
        • Building resilience to state capture
        • Resisting state capture from the grassroots: Civil society efforts and public perceptions
        • Building institutional resilience to global illicit financial flows as enablers and drivers of state capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Fighting high-level corruption in Africa: Learning from effective law enforcement
        • Addressing bribery in the Tanzanian health sector: A behavioural approach
        • Detecting and deterring medication theft: A field study in health clinics in Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement using ‘red flags’ risk indicators
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of integrity: Urban planning and corruption in Africa
        • Can positive public recognition lead to good governance?
        • Harnessing informality: Designing anti-corruption network interventions and strategic use of legal instruments
        • Centralised versus decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: Insights from comparisons across Indian state
        • Civil service reform and anti-corruption: Does ethics training reduce corruption in the civil service?
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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
        • Hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption
      • 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
        • Ethical border trading between Kenya and Uganda for small-scale businesses
      • State capture
        • Building resilience to state capture
        • Resisting state capture from the grassroots: Civil society efforts and public perceptions
        • Building institutional resilience to global illicit financial flows as enablers and drivers of state capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Fighting high-level corruption in Africa: Learning from effective law enforcement
        • Addressing bribery in the Tanzanian health sector: A behavioural approach
        • Detecting and deterring medication theft: A field study in health clinics in Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement using ‘red flags’ risk indicators
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of integrity: Urban planning and corruption in Africa
        • Can positive public recognition lead to good governance?
        • Harnessing informality: Designing anti-corruption network interventions and strategic use of legal instruments
        • Centralised versus decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: Insights from comparisons across Indian state
        • Civil service reform and anti-corruption: Does ethics training reduce corruption in the civil service?
    • Fellowship
    • Rethinking Anti-Corruption
    • From Research to Practice
  • Resources
    • Publications
    • Blogs
    • Newsletter
    • Multimedia
    • Kickback – The Global AntiCorruption Podcast
    • Digital Library
  • News & events
    • GI ACE in the news
    • Seminars/events
  • Contact

Category Archives: Subnational & Sectoral

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Research insights into the causes of medicine theft in Malawi

Jablonski, Subnational & SectoralBy GI ACE18/02/20201 Comment

GI-ACE researcher Ryan Jablonski explores findings from surveys exploring Malawians’ experiences with accessing their medicines and shares additional analysis that sheds light on why Malawians believe individuals are motivated to steal drugs.

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Social network interventions to tackle corruption

Baez Camargo, Integrity Systems, Subnational & SectoralBy GI ACE10/12/2019Leave a comment

GI-ACE project aiming to harness the power of social networks to promote positive anti-corruption outcomes among health providers and users through behavioral interventions and dissemination of interventions through trusted and influential social networks.

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Qualitative Action Experiment tackles professional integrity in the Zambian planning sector

Integrity Systems, Subnational & Sectoral, WatsonBy GI ACE06/12/20191 Comment

GI-ACE researchers Dorothy Ndhlovu, Gilbert Siame, and Laura Nkula-Wenz reflect on the Qualitative Action Experiment (QAE) experiment conducted in Lusaka, Zambia, in partnership with the Centre for Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Zambia and the Zambian Institute of Planners.

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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.

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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.’

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Working with social norms to develop effective anti-corruption interventions

Baez Camargo, Integrity Systems, Subnational & SectoralBy GI ACE04/09/2019Leave a comment

GI-ACE researcher Claudia Baez Camargo explores how we can diagnose whether there is a social norm that is underpinning observed behaviours.

Cities of Integrity project launch in Zambia

Integrity Systems, Subnational & Sectoral, WatsonBy GI ACE28/08/2019Leave a comment

Dorothy Ndhlovu reports on the GI-ACE Cities of Integrity project’s launch in Zambia

Strengthening integrity within the urban planning profession to combat corruption in urban development

Integrity Systems, Subnational & Sectoral, WatsonBy GI ACE06/08/2019Leave a comment

The scourge of corruption in urban development has corrosive and far-reaching effects that can hardwire injustice into the fabric of cities and undermine social cohesion and trust within communities.

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Toward a more professional and ethical civil service in Nepal

Integrity Systems, Meyer-Sahling, Subnational & SectoralBy GI ACE30/07/2019Leave a comment

Researcher Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling discusses GI-ACE project taking up the challenge of developing a state-of-the-art ethics training for civil servants in order to contribute to the ambition of building a more professional and ethical civil service in Nepal.

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