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Listening, learning & adapting: A strategy for uncertain times
Published in April 2020, our new strategy sets out our approach to enhancing the ability of governance reformers and change agents in countries and communities around the world to address challenges relating to corruption and the use of public resources. If you have thoughts about our strategy, or would like to discuss how we might…
June 16, 2020
Silence is Violence: Black Lives Matter
This week has been a tumultuous week in the United States. The tragic killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25—the latest in a long line of victims of police brutality—laid bare, yet again, the issues of violence, oppression and institutional racism that scar this country and many others, and which too many of…
June 5, 2020
Côte d’Ivoire and COVID-19: how a political crisis can jeopardize an effective pandemic response
Unlike its neighbors in West Africa, Cote d’Ivoire was remarkably able to completely stave off the 2014 Ebola pandemic through a strong response rooted in factual scientific information and a strong health care system/campaigns/networks. So far, it has done the same to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but now an unraveling political crisis threatens to completely…
May 28, 2020
Bribery, gift-giving and social norms: understanding corruption in the Tanzanian health sector.
Originally published on GI-ACE The COVID-19 pandemic continues to extend around the globe and has now reached our partner countries in East Africa, including Tanzania. It is still too early to say what will be the ultimate impact of the health emergency on our research project and for now our biggest priority is to ensure…
Tags: Africa, anti-corruption
May 26, 2020
Reaching Out and Checking In: Listening to 70 Partners in a Time of Crisis
By Jorge Florez and Nada Zohdy Earlier last month, we outlined an initial process to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Global Integrity’s work and that of our partners and allies and shared our new strategy. Alongside this, we have continued to systematically review the implications of COVID-19 across our projects, our priorities, and…
May 20, 2020
Making records open does not always make them useful
Originally published on GI-ACE On 12 May 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron hosted a ‘landmark’ international anti-corruption summit in London at which invited countries made pledges about future anti-corruption efforts. Nigeria made many such commitments, including eight on increasing the transparency of beneficial ownership (BO). Of these, perhaps the most publicised was its commitment to establishing a…
May 6, 2020