Anti-corruption

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This gateway guide is designed to point readers to the most useful, credible and up-to-date resources available on the internet in relation to anti-corruption in a development context. It was prepared by Andrew McDevitt in May 2009. Suggestions are welcome at: enquiries@gsdrc.org.

Contents:

• General resources
• Thematic resources
         - Private sector
         - Money laundering
         - Natural resources
         - Infrastructure
• Regional resources
• Blogs

General resources

• World Bank Institute (WBI): Governance & Anti-corruption
  The WBI's Governance & Anti-corruption Programme provides policy and institutional advice to support countries in improving governance and controlling corruption. The website includes a large selection of research papers on corruption, interactive datasets for use as 'e-learning' tools, news, details of past and upcoming events, and information on capacity building and learning programmes.
• World Bank: Anti-corruption
  This sub-section of the World Bank’s Public Sector Governance programme outlines the consequences of corruption for economic and social development. It also provides tools and data to help assess the extent, cost, dynamics and perceptions of corruption and to help produce anticorruption strategies for specific country contexts.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): Corruption
  The UNODC Global Programme against Corruption is designed to help states effectively implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. This section of the website includes a broad selection of publications on corruption, a section on strengthening the integrity of the judiciary, and links to national and international anti-corruption agencies.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Fighting Corruption
  This section of the OECD website hosts a number of anti-corruption programmes, each of which includes publications, statistics and country information on the relevant thematic area: 
  - Combating the supply side of bribery 
  - Preventing bribery through export credits 
  - Denying tax deductibility of bribes 
  - Promoting responsible business conduct 
  - Preventing corruption in the public sector 
  - Improving governance through development assistance         
• U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
  U4 assists donor practitioners in more effectively addressing corruption challenges through their development support. The website includes a range of anti-corruption resources including U4’s own applied research and a searchable database of projects and initiatives. The resource centre also provides a helpdesk service and training on anti-corruption measures and strategies.
• Transparency International
  Transparency International is a global network of actors from government, civil society, business and the media which aims to promote transparency in elections, public administration, procurement and business. Among other things, the website hosts a number of surveys and indices on corruption, a large selection of research papers - including the Global Corruption Report - and toolkits and handbooks on anti-corruption.
• Global Integrity
  Global Integrity is an independent, non-profit organisation tracking governance and corruption trends around the world. Among the resources available on the website are the Global Integrity Report, the Global Integrity Index, information on sub-national and sector level anti-corruption projects, and in-country stakeholder workshop reports. 
• Tiri
  Tiri is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with governments, business and civil society to promote integrity. The website includes information and resources on integrity in the following thematic areas: business, education, elections, work, law, post-war reconstruction and grant-making.
• International Group for Anti-corruption Coordination (IGAC)
  IGAC provides a platform for exchange of views, information, experiences and best practice on anti-corruption activities, including support for the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The website includes a large selection of publications on anti-corruption and a searchable database of anti-corruption projects (currently being updated).

Thematic resources

Private sector

• UN Global Compact
  The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles. Principle 10 of the compact states that: “businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery”. The anti-corruption section of the site includes guidance material, examples of good business practice and information on meetings and events.
• Business Anti-corruption Portal
  This portal aims to support small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in avoiding and fighting corruption and creating a better business environment. The portal provides definitions, interpretations and references to international and national legislation and initiatives, a model code of conduct, due diligence tools, country profiles, access to information networks, and links to relevant documents and websites for further reference.
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC): Anti-corruption Commission
  The ICC’s Anti-corruption Commission aims to encourage self-regulation by business in confronting issues of extortion and bribery, and to provide business input into international initiatives to fight corruption. The website provides news, information on international anti-corruption conventions, and anti-corruption tools.

Money laundering

• International Money Laundering Information Network (IMOLIN) IMoLIN is an internet-based network assisting governments, organisations and individuals in the fight against money laundering. The website includes a database on legislation and regulation throughout the world (AMLID), an electronic library, and a calendar of events in the anti-money laundering field. IMoLIN works with a number of regional anti-money laundering organisations, including:
  - The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG)
  - The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)
  - The Eurasian Group on combating money laundering and
     financing of terrorism (EAG)
  - The Eastern and South African Anti Money Laundering Group
     (ESAAMLG) 
  - The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money
     Laundering in West Africa (GIABA)
• The Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
  The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body which develops and promotes national and international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The FATF website contains a number of publications, including annual reports and newsletters, FATF Standards, reports on non-cooperative countries and territories (NCCT), and information on money-laundering methods and trends.

Natural resources

• Publish What You Pay (PWYP)
  PWYP is a global civil society coalition that campaigns for the mandatory disclosure of company payments and government revenues from the oil, gas, and mining sector. The PWYP resource centre contains a wide range of information, including press releases, publications, reports, and news stories. 
• Global Witness
  Global Witness works to expose corruption in natural resource management and international trade systems, and to combat resource-linked conflict and human rights and environmental abuses. The media library includes reports, press releases, briefing documents, videos and audio clips.
• Water Integrity Network (WIN)
  WIN is an international network which supports anti-corruption activities in the water sector worldwide. WIN’s online library contains a substantial collection of documents on corruption in the water sector from a wide range of sources.

Infrastructure

• Global Infrastructure Anti-corruption Centre (GIACC)
  GIACC is an independent not for profit organisation which works to prevent corruption in the infrastructure, construction and engineering sectors. The website contains information on anti-corruption programmes and initiatives, and provides access to anti-corruption tools, conventions, forums, indices and surveys. In addition, the GIACC resource centre contains a detailed topic guide on the nature and costs of corruption.

Regional resources

• Organization of American States (OAS): Anti-corruption Portal of the Americas
  The Anti-Corruption Portal of the Americas provides information on transparency in public administration and anti-corruption cooperation in the region. The website contains a small collection of anti-corruption publications as well as information on the Inter-American Convention against Corruption and legal cooperation tools to support states in implementing the convention.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB): Anti-corruption and Integrity
  The ADB’s anti-corruption and integrity programme supports governments' efforts toward effective and transparent systems for public service, anti-bribery and business integrity. The anti-corruption and integrity resource centre includes annual reports of the office of the auditor general, ADB publications on anti-corruption and information on ADB anti-corruption projects.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Regional Anti-corruption programmes
  The OECD and its project partners have established specialised websites for many of their regional anti-corruption programmes, which provide access to region specific anti-corruption projects, literature, stakeholders and databases:
  - SIGMA - Support for Improvement in Governance and
    Management
  - ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific
  - Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
    Latin America
  - Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
• Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI) for South Eastern Europe
  RAI acts as a regional process through which governments of the region, local and international civil society organisations, bilateral aid agencies, and international organisations combine their efforts to help curb corruption in South Eastern Europe (SEE). The publications section of the website includes a knowledge base with information on anti-corruption monitoring and projects, surveys, reports, handbooks, and anti-corruption best practices and guidelines.
• Information Portal on Corruption in Africa (IPOC)
  IPOC is an online resource centre dedicated to combating corruption within Southern Africa. The portal hosts a database of information on corruption including legislation, public reports and research papers.
• Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC)
  GOPAC is an international network of parliamentarians dedicated to good governance and combating corruption throughout the world. The website includes a range of publications including the Parliamentarian’s Handbook on Controlling Corruption. GOPAC also has a number of regional and national chapters, which work to strengthen the capacity of parliamentarians to address corruption at the local level.

Blogs

• Global Integrity Commons Blog
  This blog from Global Integrity discusses issues relating to governance and corruption trends around the world.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) PFMA Blog: Anti-corruption
  The anti-corruption section of this regularly updated blog form the IMF includes entries on combating corruption in public financial management.
• CIPE Development Blog: Corruption
  The corruption section of this blog from the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) discusses issues relating to private sector participation in corruption.
• Private Sector Development Blog: Corruption
  The corruption section of this blog, written by World Bank staff members, discusses corruption in both the public and private sectors.
• Democracy Digest: Corruption
  This blog from the Transatlantic Democracy Network provides news, analysis and information on democracy promotion and related matters. The Digest includes a section on combating corruption.
• Countries at the Crossroads Governance Blog: Corruption
  This blog from Freedom House offers insights into development and governance in emerging and transitional states, including a section on corruption.

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