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Africa Integrity Indicators – Rounds 2 – 9 (XLS)
In 2012, Global Integrity embarked on a five-year collaboration with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to generate the Africa Integrity Indicators (AII), which assesses key social, economic, political and anti-corruption mechanisms at the national level across all 54 African countries. That initial work has now been extended to continue our annual research process. Both the breadth…
April 5, 2021
Outside/In: The Winds of Change in Political Windows
Authors: Veronica Dickson La Rotta & Izabela Chmielewska Never waste a good crisis: a maxim bolstered by a year of a global pandemic and advocacy for racial equity. Moments of political upheaval and societal distress, destabilizing though they may be, have historically been the key to opening windows of opportunity for civil society reformers to…
Tags: democracy, Dialogue, elections, Identity Politics
March 24, 2021
Integrity Insider – March 2021
New Opportunities Open Gov Hub We have been proudly operating the Open Gov Hub since co-founding it with Development Gateway in 2012. The Open Gov Hub has retained all of its members through the pandemic and now, in April 2021, the Open Gov Hub is becoming” OGH 3.0” – the exciting 3rd phase of the Hub’s…
March 12, 2021
Outside/In: Caste and Race: The criminalization of protests
It would be wrong to say I was pleased when I first came across Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In the bestseller published late last year, Wilkerson uses, quite radically, caste as a framework to analyse the reality of racial discrimination in the US. There cannot be anything pleasing about something…
Tags: BLM, governance, india, power, protest, usa
March 10, 2021
GI-ACE 2020 Annual Report
Click here to access the GI-ACE 2020 Annual Report Some five years ago, when I was giving oral evidence to the UK House of Commons International Development Committee, one Member of Parliament put it to me that they were ‘quite surprised, perhaps naively, to understand […] that further research is required to improve the evidence…
March 5, 2021
What’s in a name? Reflections on integrity, relationships and systems
Integrity: i) The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, and ii) The quality of being whole and complete (The Cambridge Dictionary) In my six years as Executive Director of Global Integrity, we have not spent much time explicitly reflecting on our name. I’d always assumed that we inherited it, having spun off…
Tags: anti-corruption, governance, integrity, Systems thinking, transparency
February 2, 2021