Mark your calendars! We have been holding weekly conversations with GI-ACE researchers where they share how their research projects have aligned with the founding principles of the GI-ACE programme. The projects were each designed with some key questions in mind:
Is the problem we want to solve focused? Is it politically viable? Will it engage practitioners throughout the research process? How do we measure the effects of the reforms?
Set some time aside in your calendars and come ready with questions!
GI-ACE WEEKLY SERIES
tune in every Thursday!
In recent years, there has – across the governance and development agenda – been an increased appreciation of the potential value of locally-led solutions to complex challenges such as corruption, and of the political-economy dynamics that are at the heart of governance-related challenges. Our aim with this event is to contribute to an open, ongoing and globally inclusive conversation about the value, and limits, of locally-led approaches to unlocking the drivers of corruption, and how such approaches can best be supported. Read Global Integrity’s blog here.
Chaired by Pallavi Roy, SOAS-ACE Anti-Corruption Research Partnership Consortium with presentations from Nkemdilim Ilo, CEO of Public and Private Development Centre, Nigeria, Raphael Fuentes, Director General, Public Procurement, Panama, Aryanto Nugroho, National Coordinator, Publish What You Pay, Indonesia and Abigail Bellows, Deputy, Policy, USAID Anti-Corruption Task Force.
PUBLICATIONS
journal articles & working papers
Informal Networks as Investment in East Africa
Informal Networks as Investment in East Africa by Claudia Baez Camargo, Jacopo Costa, and Lucy Koechlin presents evidence, consisting of ten mini-case studies (six from Tanzania and four from Uganda) that describe informal networks associated with bribery and procurement fraud. Corruption often takes place according to informal, unwritten rules – the report sheds light on the functioning of informal networks in East Africa.
Read Claudia’s blog on findings outlined in this report.
Claudia Baez Camargo presented on her
project at the GI-ACE weekly series, answering the question:
how can you harness informality to design anti-corruption interventions?
Findings from Tanzania and Uganda
The Tanzanian Case Study and Ugandan Case Study shed light on the functioning of informal networks in East Africa, based on evidence collected in Tanzania. The report presents evidence, consisting of mini-case studies from Tanzania and Uganda that describe informal networks associated with bribery and procurement fraud.
Jan Meyer-Sahling on Bureaucratic Professionalization
Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants by Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Christian Schuster, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Magdalena Rojas Wettig argues that incumbent bureaucrats face incentives to acquire greater expertise when educated entrants arrive, in order to remain competitive for organizational rewards (such as promotions) inside government and jobs outside government in case educated entrants “outcompete” them. Findings suggest that bureaucratic professionalization is a contagious – and thus self-reinforcing – process inside government.
THE ARCHIVES
what we’ve been up to
Enough of reductionist binary divides…
GI-ACE Program Director Paul Heywood shares his thoughts on the ongoing debate between anti-corruption scholars about the “narrative of anticorruption failure”.
The Cities of Integrity project presented at the GI-ACE weekly series on November 11, sharing insights from their project on how professional communities of planners in South Africa and Zambia drive integrity within their profession?
Jackie Harvey and Sue Turner from Northumbria University shared findings from their project on the current approaches and system weaknesses for successfully identifying the beneficial owner, preventing the laundering of the proceeds of corruption and aiding asset recovery at the GI-ACE weekly series on November 18.
John Heathershaw from the University of Exeter presented on British professional services, Eurasian elites and the transformation of international security in the post-Cold War era at the Institute of Historical Research on November 29.