Fresh perspectives on the effectiveness of anti-corruption law enforcement in Nigeria
GI-ACE researcher Matthew T Page presents key takeaways from new policy-relevant research into effectiveness of anti-corruption law enforcement in Nigeria.
Cities of Integrity at the World Urban Forum
Project research assistant Dorothy Ndhlovu reports on the GI-ACE Cities of Integrity project’s networking panel at the tenth annual World Urban Forum.
Social network interventions to tackle corruption
GI-ACE project aiming to harness the power of social networks to promote positive anti-corruption outcomes among health providers and users through behavioral interventions and dissemination of interventions through trusted and influential social networks.
Qualitative Action Experiment tackles professional integrity in the Zambian planning sector
GI-ACE researchers Dorothy Ndhlovu, Gilbert Siame, and Laura Nkula-Wenz reflect on the Qualitative Action Experiment (QAE) experiment conducted in Lusaka, Zambia, in partnership with the Centre for Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Zambia and the Zambian Institute of Planners.
Harnessing Informality (Pt. 2): What could a network intervention to tackle anti-corruption look like?
How might knowledge about the centrality of informal social networks be used to inform the design of innovative anti-corruption approaches?
African anti-corruption agencies and the problem of independence
GI-ACE project research in Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania shows that anti-corruption agencies’ independence has turned out to be a major impediment.
Statistical challenges and ‘cash for penguins’
GI-ACE project on beneficial ownership and corruption in Nigeria investigating financial data to try to locate something that is not apparently observable—laundering the proceeds of corruption through disguising the beneficial owner—by removing from the picture what might be explained legitimately.
How can top-down audits and social audits respond to the changing technology of service delivery in India?
Takeaways from GI-ACE workshop on ‘Audit and Anti-Corruption Measures in India.’
Harnessing informality for anti-corruption practice: Shifting the unit of analysis from individuals to networks
Researcher Claudia Baez Camargo writes about GI-ACE project, we adopt two perspectives to explore the question, “What would anti-corruption practice look like if we shift the unit of analysis from individuals to networks?”
Pairing field experimental and ethnographic methods to study anti-corruption
GI-ACE researcher Mark Buntaine’s team has pursued a fully paired ethnography and randomized field experiment to study anti-corruption strategies in the context of revenue-sharing for Bwindi National Park.