Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)

research generates actionable evidence for use in designing and implementing more effective anti-corruption initiatives.

Food Security & Corruption Risks

The climate crisis is currently affecting food prices, with the biggest impact on the most vulnerable populations. Practitioners and researchers are working hand-in-hand at the African Market Observatory at the University of Johannesburg to ease these impacts and improve food security.

To learn more about the broader topic of corruption and commerce, explore this GI-ACE project.

 

GI ACE Phase 2: New Projects will be Underway Soon!

Eight new GI-ACE research projects across three themes will be announced soon – watch this space.

New GI-ACE Report on Financial Secrecy

On June 27th, we launched a research report on global shell companies and offshore financial secrecy. The newly generated research uses big data analytics and global mapping to provide an important evidence base for anti-corruption policy-making in the future. The work was led by Daniel Haberly, University of Sussex.

Get it here!

From Research to Practice: A GI-ACE Conference

From March 9-11, 2022, the GI-ACE programme brought together all research teams, practitioner partners, and stakeholders in government and civil society to a celebratory closing event in London. This event shared findings and progress made by the programme over the course of three years.

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From Research to Practice: The Journey of GI-ACE

Click through to read our end-of-programme report! This team would like to express our sincerest thanks to our research teams, their host institutions and all their partners, as well as colleagues from civil society, the private sector, governmental and international organizations and media around the world who have contributed their thinking and served as thought partners throughout. This report showcases the important work done by our partners and the journey we took to get here.

Read the report here

The Kleptocracy Problem

This project investigate the laundering of monies and reputations by elites from African and Central Asian kleptocracies by looking at the due diligence requirements in the banking, real estate, charitable and public relations sectors.

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WHO

Research partners around the world, funded by UK aid from the British people.

WHAT

Practical research in priority areas of anti-corruption work, currently focused on: global finance, global trade, and vulnerable sectors, with nineteen projects so far.

WHY

To generate actionable evidence for use in designing and implementing more effective anti-corruption initiatives.

Research Projects

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Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi

This project is the first comparative study of law enforcement efforts targeting high-level corruption in Africa. The focus on enforcement practice promises to generate new evidence regarding investigations and prosecutions in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Malawi.

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Where GI ACE is Working

See which countries our researchers are working in around the globe.

Recent Posts

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UK's first academic centre dedicated to interdisciplinary research and teaching on corruption, based at the University of Sussex. Director: @LizDavidBarrett

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💥New episode on the US's #anticorruption strategy 🇺🇸
This week, @LizDavidBarrett speaks to @RichardMNephew about the US's multi pillar strategy, strengthening the multilateral anti-corruption architecture and the recent #COSP10 🌐

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27 Mar

Always good to meet up with alumni of our @Sussex_SCSC Masters in Corruption & Governance - this time at the OECD #anticorruption and integrity forum!

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