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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: GI ACE

close-up of hands both dispensing and receiving medicine

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.

Jamaica workshop participants

Building public procurement integrity in Jamaica

David-Barrett, David-Barrett_ext, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE11/02/2020Leave a comment

Liz David-Barrett discusses importance of having the right teams in place to use the available data to fight corruption, as exemplified in recent workshop in Jamaica building on procurement work.

people icons with connections on blue background

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.

Lusaka traffic circle overhead view

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.

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.’

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