What happens when the funding ends?
Without deliberate attention to sustainability from the outset, even strong technical interventions remain externally dependent and struggle to outlast donor funding.
Lina Lozano
Sep 216 min read
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What a good dose of political will can do for anti-corruption
Political will is widely heralded as the spark behind the success of a successful anti-corruption project. Yet it is difficult to ignite and even harder to retain. Might South Africa be offering us a rare success story…
Colette Ashton
Mar 165 min read
Insights for Engaging the Trump Administration on Global Anti-Corruption Efforts
The Trump administration’s policy process is idiosyncratic and fluid by design. More seriously, anti-corruption practitioners at home and abroad have criticized Trump and other officials for intentionally diminishing anti-corruption efforts or being corrupt themselves, with charges ranging from conflicts of interest to bribery.
Schuyler Miller
Nov 14, 20256 min read
Vote-Buying: Driven More by Social Norms than Economics?
Challenging assumptions about the drivers of vote-buying: It’s not the economy.
Richard Nash
May 17, 20245 min read
When do anti-corruption messages work, and with whom?
How can anti-corruption messaging work better? Jean-Benoit Falisse provides lessons from the field.
Jean-Benoit Falisse, University of Edinburgh
Mar 12, 20235 min read
Addressing Bureaucratic Corruption: Advice from and for Practitioners
On-the-ground practitioners and researchers share lessons on designing social norms anti-corruption programs that work.
Jared Miller, CJL
Jul 1, 20227 min read
Civil Servants, Social Norms, and Corruption – What do we know and what do we do?
Jared Miller reviews three social norm resources to help us better understand and program anti-corruption efforts targeting civil servants.
Jared Miller, CJL
Apr 14, 20226 min read
The Threat is Real: what it means for civil servants when social norms and the law do not align
By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Image credit: Hatem–Tunisialive In late 2019, I travelled to Kampala to work with the DFID and EU supported Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-Corruption and Accountability Response (aka SUGAR) Technical Assistance Facility. My colleague, Dr Teddy Atim, and I were tasked with figuring out why, after five years of supporting the implementation of the 2009 Anti-Corruption Act, public servants convicted of corruption were still not routinely removed from t
Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church - CJL
Jan 21, 20215 min read
Social Norms vs Anti-Corruption Laws: And the winner is???
By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Visualize this: you walk into a meeting in a government ministry office and one of the officials is wearing...
Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church - CJL
Oct 5, 20205 min read
Orders from Above: Curated Resources Exploring Social Norms and Public Authorities
By Cori Simmons From traditional anti-corruption initiatives to social accountability programs, so much of our field’s practice is...
Cori Simmons, CJL
Jul 28, 20205 min read
What Worked: Fighting Corruption Through Collective Action
By Kiely Barnard-Webster The central contribution of the Network [for its members] is that members no longer feel alone in the fight against corruption during their individual actions of resistance. – Kuleta Haki Transition Review, December 2017 Is collective action effective for fighting corruption in fragile states? For one collective action effort, members now prefer to resist with a group behind them. Kuleta Haki, an experimental anti-corruption project, celebrated
Kiely Barnard-Webster, CDA
Jan 18, 20185 min read
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