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How effective are beneficial ownership checks?
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New project investigates laundering of monies and reputations by professional enablers for African and Central Asian elites This is the first in a series of blogs authored by researchers supported by the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE) programme. The overarching objective of the GI-ACE programme is to support world-class multidisciplinary research to inform the development…
Tags: anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, beneficial ownership
June 5, 2019
How to Reduce Corruption: Reflections, including from the Paris Integrity Forum
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How do we – organizations and individuals working to strengthen transparency, accountability, and participation – more effectively fight corruption? For many of us, this is perhaps the perennial question. In recent decades, we’ve seen that there are many different ways of doing ‘something’ about corruption, with anti-corruption practitioners and social movements trying a diverse set…
Tags: anti-corruption, connecting research to practice, Event, learning, OECD, practitioners, reflections, solutions
May 30, 2019
Launching Open Gov Stories: New Global Podcast Series!
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originally published on Open Gov Hub After months of work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Open Gov Stories: A Global Podcast Series today while we’re attending the 6th Annual Open Government Partnership Summit (in Ottawa, Canada)! Open Gov Stories explore a simple question: Why Do You Care About Changing the World? This…
Information, accountability & impact: Luminate’s new Financial Transparency strategy
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It’s been great to see a number of the members of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative publish updated strategies over the last couple of years, with these strategies helping to shape the evolution of the transparency and accountability agenda. We’ve been happy to provide feedback on DFID’s “Open Aid, Open Societies” strategy (here), on the…
Tags: fiscal governance, fiscal governance strategy, Follow the Money, Luminate
May 20, 2019
M/E/L Maps – Supporting journeys to impact!
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a question to the AdaptDev and Pelican [Platform for Evidence-based Learning and Communication for Social Change) communities about Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Maps (M/E/L Maps). Here’s what I asked: I had an idea last week about producing “M/E/L maps” to help us track, reflect on, and communicate (internally…
Tags: learning, M/E/L, strategy
May 2, 2019
Who uses governance data, in what ways and to what end?
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Marc-André Boisvert Catherine Easton We just released the provisional data for our 2019 Africa Integrity Indicators. With seven years of project data, covering 13 governance themes across all 54 African countries, Global Integrity has produced a wealth of information. Our robust methodology, built on data collection methods and quality control processes that can be applied…
Tags: Africa Integrity Indicators, AII, AII7, data use
April 26, 2019