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Integrity Insider – October 2019
Over the last couple of months we’ve enthusiastically dived into a Strategy Update process intended to ensure that we do an even better job of listening and responding to our partners’ needs, and that we have a clear and compelling value proposition. That will be a key item for our board meeting on…
October 21, 2019
Central African Coalition Against Kleptocracy takes different approach to tackling kleptocracy
Fighting kleptocrats at the international level is not enough Related Blog Beating kleptocrats at their own game: Learning how to tackle kleptocracy more effectively The complexity of kleptocracy (in which those governing seek status and personal gain at the expense of the governed) has implications for the approaches taken to address this particular corruption problem.…
Tags: Cameroon, Cameroun, Central Africa, Central African Coalition Against Kleptocracy, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, fiscal governance, kleptocracy, National Endowment for Democracy, NED, theory of change
October 17, 2019
Pairing field experimental and ethnographic methods to study anti-corruption
Originally Published on GI-ACE Different methods for studying anti-corruption and other governance priorities have different strengths and weaknesses. The promise of using multiple methods is that in combination they are likely to be more effective at producing insights about successful anti-corruption and governance strategies, particularly when context matters. The major strength of randomized field experiments…
October 15, 2019
A new map of financial transparency reform: 2000-2015
Originally published on GI-ACE On September 26, our GI-ACE project ran its first workshop, “Dark Architectures: Advancing Research on Global Wealth Chains.” Jointly hosted by the Centre for the Study of Corruption and the Tax Justice Network, this workshop brought together members of four different GI-ACE research teams and a number of other experts in the areas of anti-corruption and…
October 9, 2019
Listening, learning, and adapting: Sharpening Global Integrity’s strategy
We developed our strategy, “Learning to Open Governance,” back in 2015. Since then, a lot has changed, and we’ve learned a lot. So, over the next three months we will be sharpening and refreshing our strategy, to maximize our effectiveness and impact. Our current strategy has centered on exploring whether and how locally led, learning-centered,…
October 7, 2019
Why is collecting and analysing data about public procurement so damned difficult? Data scientists explain some common problems
originally published on GI ACE Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. Oh, and big data just means bigger gains, right? Not quite. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –>…
September 17, 2019