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Corruption in prisons: A guide for detention monitors
Detention monitors can tackle prison corruption by identifying types, improving monitoring, documenting evidence, and developing advocacy recommendations. This supports evidence-based policies to reduce corruption and protect human rights.
3 September 2024
U4 Issue
Integrity Councils in Ukraine: Lessons learned
Ukraine’s Integrity Councils vet officials to ensure transparency and integrity. This paper reviews their evolution, challenges and lessons for anti-corruption reform in transitional democracies.
20 June 2025
U4 Issue
Climate governance in a fast-changing world: Evolving patterns of corruption risks
New corruption risks in climate finance, such as organised criminal networks, are jeopardising the energy transition. Anti-corruption activists and climate programmes must work together to maintain the integrity controls essential for climate action programmes to succeed.
5 February 2025
U4 Issue
Evaluating anti-corruption interventions: The state of practice
Introducing a new framework for assessing the quality of evaluations in anti-corruption interventions, revealing widespread issues and providing fresh insights into evaluation practices.
17 June 2024

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Closing the donor gap on health corruption: taking bilateral and multilateral agencies’ engagement from policy to practice
Bilateral donors and multilateral agencies can significantly increase the impact of their health aid by directly tackling corruption.
3 October 2025
Health
Public service delivery
Development cooperation
U4 Issue
Strengthening multilateral aid oversight: A joint roadmap for anti-corruption safeguards
Donors can curb corruption risks with multilateral organisations by enhancing framework agreements and working together to build coalitions, align standards, and strengthen monitoring.
23 September 2025
Development cooperation
Corruption risk management and integrity
U4 Brief
Reforming money politics to reduce environmental harm
Evidence links political finance to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, and reform efforts are emerging – such as civil society monitoring, international transparency initiatives, and national advocacy campaigns.
19 September 2025
Politics of anti-corruption
U4 Issue
Corruption and the critical mining sector in Zambia
Opportunities for intervention include stronger disclosure systems, reform of the Mining Cadastre, support for policymaking and artisanal mining, improved civil society discourse, better agency collaboration, and more.
15 September 2025
Natural resources and energy
Oil, gas, and mining
Illicit financial flows
U4 Issue
The right to be free of corruption: A new frontier in anti-corruption approaches through national courts
Some national courts are framing corruption as a human rights issue, raising prospects for a stand-alone right that could expand accountability and victim protections.
12 September 2025
Human rights
Justice sector
U4 Helpdesk Answer
Corruption in secondary and tertiary education in Central Asia
Acknowledging significant corruption risks like bribery and embezzlement in their secondary and tertiary education systems, Central Asian governments have committed to addressing these issues through various mitigation measures.
9 September 2025
Education
Public service delivery
U4 Helpdesk Answer
Preventing and managing corruption risks in Ecuador’s public administration
Ecuador has introduced new integrity policies to curb corruption risks in public administration, but their implementation remains largely untested.
5 September 2025
Corruption risk management and integrity
U4 Issue
Integrity and geopolitics: Addressing the China factor in natural resource governance
Geopolitical competition has had mixed effects on Chinese governance standards in overseas natural resource sectors.
21 August 2025
Politics of anti-corruption
Natural resources and energy
Corruption risk management and integrity
Private sector
U4 Helpdesk Answer
The relationship between business integrity and commercial success. A review of evidence and findings (1995-2025)
Businesses benefit from integrity and ethical practices, as research from the past 30 years shows that while corruption may offer short-term gains, it ultimately undermines long-term success.
15 August 2025
Private sector
U4 Issue
L'ignorance stratégique dans les organisations multilatérales : occulter la responsabilité, favoriser la corruption
L’ignorance stratégique n’est pas seulement une faille des organisations multilatérales, c’est un outil puissant qui façonne les décisions, contrôle les récits, et influence la gouvernance mondiale.
5 August 2025
Corruption risk management and integrity

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