Global Anti Corruption Resource

Progressive Action for the Eradication of Corruption

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Acts of corruption by state officials is dangerous and makes people suffer. Though corruption money comes from taxes collected based on the corresponding laws and regulations. Corruption is not always about money, but also there is corruption of time. Corruption is an act done by any person in violation of applicable laws, to the detriment of state finances, and enrich themselves or others.

In short, the deviation of the state are also included as an act of corruption. Corruption occurs also carried out the corrupt in various ways to take advantage. In government there is always a fraud committed by government officials to take advantage by breaking the law. Corruption is also smart to anticipate that corruption is not proven. In the end state budget deficit and forced into debt to foreign countries. The money from the debt even is also not free from corruption.

From the past until now about the corruption there is no low end. Was like a cancer that eats away at the body. Even arguably, such as bribery and corruption are difficult to cure chronic painful. It's become a bad person is easy, but we have to think first what we are doing is right or wrong. If it was wrong, be prepared to bear the risk to be faced later on and will bring us misery.

Revealed many cases of corruption are detrimental to the finances of state and all parties involved be tried in court. But that is not the case revealed that more state financial losses can not be saved. Intensified efforts to combat corruption, the clever culprit to cover his actions. To overcome this need progressive action to eradicate corruption in this country a corruption free country.

Need and greed: corruption risks, perceptions and prevention in humanitarian assistance

2008-09-21T21:54:00.000-07:00

Emergency environments present unique corruption risks for agencies operating within
them. Relief is delivered amidst weak or absent rule of law, endemic corruption and immense need. The capacities of governments and humanitarian agencies to assist affected people are stretched to the limit, and agencies are under pressure to intervene rapidly. Assistance is injected into resource-poor settings where powerful people have disproportionate control over resources. In the case of armed conflicts,predatory economies often develop when influential groups attempt to direct these resources for their own ends.

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Good Governance and Anti-corruption policy and guide

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Good Governance and Anti-corruption policy and guide
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Anti-Corruption Handbook

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The idea of a handbook on fighting corruption emerged from a realization that many Bank staff have had experiences with corruption. Some devised ways to minimize corruption, using informal mechanisms, savvy, and courage. Others were confounded as they followed standard operating procedures yet sensed that the procedures were sometimes being circumvented. Some Bank staff have commented that there has been a tendency to focus on project outcomes rather than on whether there was corruption. Staff perceived a tradeoff between getting needed services to the poor and ensuring that corruption was eliminated. While staff did not believe that they could ensure zero corruption, some were ambivalent about the goal of zero tolerance for corruption. This ambivalence was compounded by the burden of proof required to prove corruption and the perception that the Bank was not taking corruption seriously as a development issue.

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ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING MANUAL

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This Anti-Corruption Training Manual aims to help users achieve a better understanding of corruption and how to avoid it. It can be used by individuals, and also by companies as part of their corporate
training.

Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this Manual can be used by companies and individuals wherever they are located or working, as the general principles and examples would have worldwide applicability.
However, specific legal advice should be taken in the relevant jurisdiction so as to ascertain the exact position.

The law stated in Section 5, and the references to specific offences contained in the boxes below the examples in Section 2.

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International assistance for political party development

2008-05-23T00:31:00.000-07:00

Political party assistance should be a key component of international donors' governance agenda. Efforts to reduce corruption that do not address this domain will be incomplete, as they leave out actors essential to political processes. In this U4 Issue, Thomas Carothers from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace reviews traditional approaches to supporting political system-building, and points to some new ways in engaging with political parties.

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Political finance: state control and civil society monitoring

2008-05-23T00:29:00.000-07:00

Modern politics face the challenge of reconciling the presence of money in politics with the risks it poses to democratic values and good governance. In this U4 Brief, Bruno W. Speck describes the nature of common risks and challenges, and looks at avenues for mitigating the corruption-related problems with political funding.

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Compendium of International Legal Instruments on

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The Compendium of International Legal Instruments on Corruption contains all the major relevant international and regional treaties, agreements, resolutions and other instruments. These include both legally binding obligations and some "soft-law"or normative instruments intended to serve as non-binding standards.

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corruption.pdf

Global Action Against Corruption. The Mérida Papers

2008-05-23T00:03:00.000-07:00

Side events at the High-level Political Conference for the purpose of signing the United Nations Convention against Corruption, organized jointly by the Government of Mexico and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Merida, Mexico, 9-11 December 2003.

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Anti-Corruption Toolkit

2008-05-22T23:59:00.000-07:00

The Toolkit is part of a larger package of materials intented to provide information and resource materials for countries developing and implementing anti-corruption strategies at all levels, as well as for other elements of civil society with an interest in combatting corruption.

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United Nations Convention against Corruption

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The United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) creates the opportunity to develop a global language about corruption and a coherent implementation strategy. A multitude of international anti-corruption agreements exist, however their implementation has been uneven and only moderately successful. The UNCAC gives the global community the opportunity to address both of these weaknesses and begin establishing an effective set of benchmarks for effective anti-corruption strategies. The Global Programme against Corruption (GPAC) is a catalyst and a resource to help countries effectively implement the provision of the UN Convention against Corruption.

There are a rapidly growing number of countries that have become parties to the Convention. The primary goal of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU)/Global Programme against Corruption (GPAC) is to provide practical assistance and build technical capacity to implement the UNCAC and efforts will concentrate on supporting Member States in the development of anti-corruption policies and institutions. This will include the establishment of preventive anti-corruption frameworks.

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Tools to Support Transparency in Local Governance

2008-05-21T23:04:00.001-07:00

TI Features: As the product of a partnership between Transparency International (TI) and UN-HABITAT (the United Nations Human Settlements Programme), Tools to Promote Transparency in Local Governance has been developed under the umbrella of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance. It builds on the first toolkit developed by the Campaign to promote good urban governance, Tools to Promote Participatory Urban Decision-Making (PUDM).

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10 Myths About Governance and Corruption

2008-05-21T22:54:00.000-07:00

Short Description: Back to Basics: Finance & Development, September 2005

Abstract:

Governance—which remains a sensitive and misunderstood topic—is now being given a higher priority in development circles. A few donors and international financial institutions (IFIs) have begun to work with some emerging economies to help reduce corruption, and encourage citizen voice, gender equality, and accountability. When the Group of Eight countries announced in July their decision to double aid and debt relief to the poorest countries in Africa, governance concerns were prominent. And in May, the joint report by the Africa Commission explicitly stated: “Good governance is the key . . . Unless there are improvements in capacity, accountability, and reducing corruption . . . other reforms will have only limited impact.”

But is good governance and controlling corruption really so fundamental for development? The explosion of empirical research over the past decade, coupled with lessons from countries’ own experience, have given us a more solid basis for judging the effect of governance on development, and the effectiveness—or lack thereof—of strategies to improve it. Yet there are still unresolved questions and debates in the development community, not only about the importance of governance, but also about the ability of IFIs to help countries improve on it.
Let us therefore go back to basics and address some prevailing “myths” about governance and corruption.

Content Language: English

Author(s): Daniel Kaufmann

Website (URL): http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance

File: Kaufman10 Myths - English.pdf

Number of Pages: 3 p.

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Good Governance versus Bad Corruption

2008-05-21T22:51:00.000-07:00

Short Description: Myths & Realities on Governance & Corruption: Implications from Worldwide Evidence

Abstract: This document contains notes/slides with interesting charts and statistics from a presentation made by Daniel Kaufmann, the Director of Global Programs at the World Bank Institute, in July in Nairobi.

Content Language: English

Author(s): Daniel Kaufmann

Website (URL): http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance

File: Nairobi_public_lecture_6-06w.pdf

Number of Pages: 41 p.

Format: application/pdf

Keywords: governance, corruption

Anti-Corruption NGO Resource Book

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NGO Corruption Fighters Resource Book: how NGOs can use monitoring and advocacy to fight corruption.

This subtopic contains the NGO Corruption Fighters' Resource Book by Richard Holloway. The book is designed for NGOs coming from different backgrounds that want to fight corruption. It helps practitioners to understand the anti-corruption context world-wide, and reposition themselves to be most effective - using tested tools of human rights and advocacy organizations. Click on "Resources" above or use the following links to access each chapter:

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A resource book designed for NGOs coming from different backgrounds that want to fight corruption. The book helps practitioners to understand the anti-corruption context world-wide, and reposition themselves to be most effective - using tested tools of human rights and advocacy organizations.

NGO Corruption Fighters' Resource Book[1].pdf 2.63 MB

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Rationale for this Resource Book

Corruption is a very big problem in many nations of the world – some would assert that it is becoming more extensive, and more areas of development activity are being affected. Corruption is also becoming, de facto, an attack on governance as more and more of the rules under which nations are governed are breached with impunity. Citizen engagement is very important in fighting corruption, and there are particular advantages in getting NGOs more involved in the fight. NGOs have limitations, but also great potential strengths, and these can be better realized through better project management.

Chapter Contents
Corruption harms democracy
The rise of the anti-corruption movement
Enter the NGOs - with strengths, but also limitations
Activists and Impact

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Chapter 2 - Monitoring, Advocacy and NGOs in general
Defining NGOs, Monitoring, and Advocacy

This Chapter looks generally at Monitoring, Advocacy and the NGO. It looks at what NGOs are and what they do (and, by implication, what they are not and what they do not do). It clarifies the nature of Monitoring and Advocacy, the particular strengths these two strategies can bring to anti-corruption work and looks at ways that they can complement each other. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 look at the same three subjects, but take a "how-to" approach, suggesting how they could optimize their work in (respectively) NGO Management, Monitoring and Advocacy.

Chapter Contents

NGOs - what they are and what they do

Three Sectors of the state

Figure 1: Three Sectors to the State

Specific characteristics of NGOs

Characteristics of NGOs that fight corruption

The Limitations of NGOs as a tool to fight corruption

Possible Corruption in NGOs themselves

Monitoring – what it is and what it does

Introduction

NGO Monitoring

The Targets of Monitoring

Key Activities in Monitoring

Testing the Rhetoric and Finding where the Real Problem is

Monitoring Investigates the Functioning of Systems

Monitoring Checks Compliance with International Standards

Monitoring is a Tool that Needs Access to Information

Stakeholders

Monitoring is a Tool that is Valuable in Itself, but is made more

Effective when joined with Public Information and Advocacy.

Advocacy – what it is and what it does

Introduction

NGO Advocacy

The Issue for an Advocacy Campaign

Key approaches in Advocacy

Advocacy requires Appropriate Targets

Advocacy requires Coalitions

Learning to use the Political Environment

Most Good Advocacy involves the Media

Gathering and Disseminating Relevant Information

Organised Actions

Advocacy needs Competent NGOs and is built on Good Monitoring

Annex 2/1: Schematic of Civil Society Organisations and the State

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Chapter 3 - A Closer Look at Corruption
An overview of the key debates about corruption

In order to engage in the struggle against corruption, an NGO should have an overview of the key debates about corruption, as well as an assessment of corruption in his/her country. Such an overview will not only provide information about possible causes and remedies, but also help prioritize intermediate goals based on areas of greatest need in the particular society, as well as the resources and allies that may be involved in the process.

Chapter Contents

Administrative or Petty Corruption

Grand Corruption

State Capture

Links between Government and Business

Assessing Corruption

Surveys

National Corruption Surveys

Governance Assessments 1

Governance Assessments 2

Check lists

Journalistic Pieces

Citizens Report Cards

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Chapter 4 - Kinds of Anti-corruption Activities
Approaches used to fight corruption

Chapter 4 examines the range of possible anti-corruption activities - looking at a variety of approaches and their conceptual bases. It covers a variety of strategies – particularly focussing on those involving citizens. It points out the very great importance of identifying "clean" people to be your allies, and emphasises that the choice of strategies must be informed by local realities (attitudes, history, governance systems, and power structures). It shows that there is no easy answer to corruption, and certainly that no "one size" fits all situations. NGOs need to work pragmatically within local realities.

Chapter Contents

The “Criminal Control” Approach

The “Small Government” Approach

Incentive Based Approaches

The “Political Economy” Approach

“Integrity Based” Approaches

The Need for a Variety of Strategies

The Anti-Corruption Players

The Role of Government

The Role of the Private Sector

The Role of the International and Inter-governmental Organisations

The Role of Civil Society

Political Will

Physical Danger

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Chapter 5 - How Ready is Your NGO to Implement Anti-Corruption Programs?
NGO qualities necessary for effective anti-corruption work

Chapter 5 looks at the qualities that an NGO needs to have if it wants to engage in effective anti-corruption work, particularly whether it can clearly define anti-corruption objectives that it has a chance of achieving. It looks at the capacities than an individual NGO needs in terms of credibility, reputation, and risk management. It then looks at general organisational competence necessary for NGOs that are prepared for the long fight to defeat corruption, and their ability to set realistic and achievable objectives. It provides exercises and self-learning tools for NGOs to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ways to build their capacity in areas where they are weak. Finally it introduces a scenario based on the imaginary region of Agraria in the country of Agronomia to try these ideas out.

Chapter Contents

Clarifying the Identity of the NGO

The Basis of the NGO’s Mandate

How the NGO is Perceived

Clarifying who is on the side of the NGO

How the NGO is placed if things get dirty

How the NGO handles personal risks

Self-Assessment

Brutal Honesty

Setting Objectives (Agraria scenario)

Stakeholder Analysis

Problem Identification

Problem Tree

Objectives Tree

Analysis of Alternative Strategies

Making a Logframe

Hierarchy of Objectives

Assumptions/Risks

Indicators of Success/Means of verification

Figure 2: Log frame for Agraria

Workplanning

Figure 3: Workplan for Agraria

Summing Up

Annex 5/1: Legitimacy Check list

Annex 5/2 Characteristics of NGOs at different stages

Annex 5/3 How to use the OCAT for NGOs

Annex 5/4 General Organisational Capacity Assessment Tool (OCAT)

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Chapter 6 - How Best to Fight Corruption through Monitoring
A "How-to" approach to monitoring

Chapter Contents
Assessing whether Monitoring is the Appropriate Tool
What and How to Monitor
Collaborative or Independent Monitoring
Collaborative monitoring
Figure 4: Advantages and Disadvantages of Monitoring in collaboration with the Subject
Independent monitoring
Figure 5: Advantages and Disadvantages of Monitoring Independently
Partnering with Others
Access to Information
Key Elements in Setting up a Monitoring Activity
Figure 6: Checklist for Time required in different parts of Monitoring
Data Collection
Primary data collection techniques
Figure 7: Advantages and Disadvantages of different data collection techniques
Secondary Data Collection Techniques
Credibility
Information Bias
Ethical Considerations
Data Management
Information Classification
Data Analysis
Publication
Risks in Monitoring
Agraria Scenario: Achieving the Monitoring Objectives in Agraria
Figure 8: Possible Monitoring Activities in support of the Agraria program

Annex 6/1: Freedom of Information Laws
Annex 6/2: How to Handle Documents

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Chapter 7 - How Best to Fight Corruption through Advocacy
A "How-to" approach to advocacy

Chapter 7 is for those who have decided that they are ready to use the advocacy tool to fight corruption, and discusses what aspect of the situation they may want to change (laws, policies, practices or behaviour – or more than one of them). It points out the criteria for an advocacy campaign, how you can identify the target both primary and secondary for your advocacy initiative, and how you might go about building alliances and networks. It talks of the need to understand the formal policy making apparatus and the key stakeholders involved in them, the role of organised action, formulating messages and using the media, the particular skills that are needed for advocacy work, how to formulate an advocacy strategy and plan, and finishes with preparing an advocacy plan for Agraria.

Chapter Contents

Getting Ready for Advocacy

Advocacy for Laws, Policies, Practices, and Behaviour

Criteria for an Advocacy Campaign

Identifying the Target

Primary and Secondary Targets

Building alliances, coalitions and networks

Laws, Policies, and Key Stakeholders in developing them

Figure 9: Stakeholders in the Policy Process

Tools for Analyzing Policies and Stakeholders

Figure 10: Policy System Overview Map

Figure 11: Policy System Close Up Map

Organised Action

Formulating Messages and Using the Media

Skills Needed for Advocacy Work

Elements of an Advocacy Strategy

Other Kinds of Advocacy

Agraria Scenario: Constructing an Advocacy Program for Agraria

Annex 7/1: 10 Elements of an Advocacy Strategy and their linked questions

Annex 7/2: 198 Non-Violent Ways to Bring about Change

Annex 7/3: Three worksheets for Advocacy Campaign Planning

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Chapter 8 - Sources and Resources
References

This Chapter contains references on the four subjects of Anti-Corruption, NGOs, Monitoring, and Advocacy categorized by Free Downloadable Material, Websites, Books, and Organisations

Chapter Contents
Anti-Corruption
NGOs
Monitoring
Advocacy

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Chapter 9 - Case Studies
Case studies in anti-corruption efforts

This chapter contains the following nine case studies:

1 PSAM (Public Service Accountability Monitor), South Africa

The Case Monitoring Project—monitoring, documenting, and investigating cases of misconduct, corruption and maladministration in the government of the Eastern Cape Province

2. TI (Transparency International) Slovakia

Monitoring of the Privatization of Slovak Telecom

3. Open Society Georgia Foundation in Georgia

Civil Monitoring of the Presidential Decree #95 of 15 March 2001

4. Global Witness, UK

Independent Observer in Support of Forest Law Enforcement in Cameroon

5. Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equality and Growth (CIPPEC), Argentina

Argentina‘s Budget Watchdog: "Lupa Fiscal"

6. Poder Ciudadano, Argentina

The Program for Transparent Contracting

7. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan, India

Jansuvai Public Hearings and Right to Information Campaign

8. Uganda Debt Network (UDN), Uganda

Monitoring of Poverty Action Fund (PAF)

9. People’s Movement "Resistance," (OTPOR!) Serbia

Customs Monitoring

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Business Without Corruption: An Action Guide

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An anti-corruption handbook. This brochure is the result of a joint effort by two nonprofit organizations that are wellknown to businesspeople: OPORA and INDEM. The INDEM Fund is known for its research on corruption.

Perface

This brochure is the result of a joint effort by two nonprofit organizations that are wellknown to businesspeople: OPORA and INDEM. The INDEM Fund is known for its research on corruption. For the last three years it has been involved in projects to study small business. OPORA is well-known as a business association not only for its research, but also for its extensive practical work to improve the business climate.

The authors of this brochure faced a complex task: To give small business owners tools to resist corruption and strategies to survive and grow in an extremely aggressive environment. These strategies are not easy to use, because they are often in tension with your previous experience. They involve rejecting the corrupt ways of doing business. Our suggestions are based on the results of research, an analysis of positive experience (however limited), and extensive interviews with representatives of small and mediumsized businesses throughout the country. Our analysis of the situation and proposals are accompanied by specific examples and quotations from anonymous interviews with businesspeople.

We do not see this text as the final truth. On the contrary, we hope this brochure will be the starting point of a discussion with active participation by its readers. This will help us correct mistakes and inaccuracies and gather additional information. With your help, we will then update the text with a new level of understanding.

Website (URL): http://www.cipe.org

Author(s): Georgiy Satarov and Sergey Parkhomenko from INDEM, Dina Krylova, OPORA; and Yuliya Rostovikova, Novorossiysk Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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