| Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 9:30am – 12:30pm BST (GMT+1)
In early 2022, Transparency International reported that ‘corruption levels remain at a standstill worldwide, with 86% of countries making little to no progress in the last 10 years’. The entrenched and sometimes growing levels of corruption in many countries demonstrates the limits of current strategies of anti-corruption and the theories informing them. Results have been poor, and much money has been wasted, because theory and practice have largely ignored the problem of implementation.
If a policy adversely affects powerful individuals and organisations, we shouldn’t be surprised when they try to block or distort its implementation. In developing countries where the rule of law is weak, policies may also be blocked in informal or corrupt ways.
Making anti-corruption real means understanding these processes and ensuring that every anti-corruption strategy has built-in incentives so that actors with the ability to implement these strategies will do so in their own interest.
Over the past 5 years, the SOAS ACE programme has tested a number of different approaches in a range of countries and sectors to identify feasible and implementable anti-corruption strategies. SOAS ACE has identified three anti-corruption strategies which offer most potential for reducing corruption.
Join us (in person or virtually) for a panel discussion in which we outline these three approaches, share case studies and discuss areas of future anti-corruption implementation. Find out more about the event. |
