This link collection (only
available in Spanish) is ordered according to the regional geography
of the Americas. It contains links to various government institutions,
NGOs and commercial enterprises concerned with curbing corruption.
The site is easy to navigate with nice icons and annotations for each
link, and with well-organized links to the institutions and organizations
in some of the member countries.
Bilingual (English/Spanish),
and with a focus on the Americas, this site provides resources, including
lessons learned and best practices, and links to relevant anti-corruption
activities and reforms beyond the region.
IPOC provides information on anti-corruption activities in the region, with a searchable database of almost 1000 documents about corruption and anti-corruption strategies in Southern Africa, detailed case studies of major attempts to tackle corruption in Southern Africa, and contact details and links to selected civil society organisations, research institutes and academic institutions active in anti-corruption work.
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
(RUSSIA) / AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (CENTRAL EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN
LAW INITIATIVE)
Focused primarily on Central
and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, this site is useful
in that it not just links to publications but also to international
news (going beyond the region), and to regional polls and surveys,
and to many links for individual countries.
This site aims to support
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the fight against corruption.
Co-funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA),
this site provides SMEs wanting to do business (for example through
participating in DANIDA private sector projects) in developing countries
with due diligence tools and country profiles, which describe corruption
risks in specific sectors. Advice on how to implement a company "integrity
system" is also included.
GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE ANTI-CORRUPTION CENTRE (GIACC)
The GIACC Resource Centre is a web-resource which provides free access to information, advice and
tools designed to help stakeholders understand, prevent and identify corruption in the infrastructure,
construction and engineering sectors.
The Democracy Dialogues web site addresses specific topics of democratic governance through interactive public forums, readings, videos, photos, and historical documents, with a new topic introduced every two months.
An independent foundation
funded by bilateral and multilateral donors and the private sector,
the Development Gateway 'puts the Internet to work for developing
countries' by providing resources on key developmental issues and
by linking up practitioners globally. The Development Gateway's corruption/anti-corruption
resources can by found under the thematic cluster of 'Governance'.
It assembles a variety of resources: latest anti-corruption news,
recent publications, toolkits, research papers and project reports
etc
This site lists links related
to anticorruption and good governance, divided into World Bank links,
and then divided by 11 subcategories, such as corporate responsibility,
ethics, and parliament.
This guide is perhaps
the most extensive available, with listings under the following categories:
governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations, NGOs,
private sector, professional organizations, research, and global governance.
ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC
CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
This site lists anti-corruption
activities of OECD's main partners in outreach. These include civil
society, regional and international organizations, but also counterparts
that the OECD has a long tradition in working with, i.e. trade unions
and business associations (links to the two latter are not always
available on other sites).
This bookis targeted at national stakeholders, donors and international actors involved in corruption measurement and anti-corruption programming. It explains the strengths and limitations of different measurement approaches, and provides practical guidance on how to use the indicators and data generated by corruption measurement tools to identify entry points for anti-corruption programming.
This study (available for purchase from OECD) seeks to clarify current trends in the use and misuse of governance indicators as these indicators are applied to developing countries. It includes an in-depth analysis of the most carefully constructed and widely-used governance indicators, those produced by Daniel Kaufmann and his team at the World Bank Institute. The paper argues that composite perceptions-based indicators lack transparency and comparability over time, suffer from selection bias, and are not weel suited to help developing countries identify how effectively to improve the quality of local governance. Fact-based indicators are not necessarily more objective. The authors argue that governance indicators should be based on publicly-available data sets derived from facts, experiences and/or perceptions of diverse, clearly-defined population groups both within and outside the country in question
This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. One interesting finding was the lack of correlation between corruption in public procurement reported by firms and broader, perception-based indicators. In addition to an analysis of corruption measurement in the region, the author usefully includes a general "primer on corruption indicators" which outlines definitional and methodological differences between data sources. Composite indices are conceptually less precise than single sources. A major problems is that many give more weight to sources that correlate highly with each other. In the case of expert surveys, high correlation is a natural result of the fact that "experts" read the same analyses as well as each others' rankings. The author argues for broader use of firm, household and public official surveys to identify more specific corruption problems for programming purposes.
